Hartmut Becker (actor)

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Hartmut Becker (2012)

Hartmut Becker ( May 6, 1938 in Berlin – January 22, 2022 there) was a German actor .

Life

After graduating from high school, Hartmut Becker studied theater studies , German and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . He studied acting with Else Bongers in Berlin before going into his first theater engagement.

Becker made his cinema debut with the role of Clark in Michael Verhoeven 's film oK , which caused quite a stir as the official German entry at the 1970 Berlin International Film Festival . In the following year, Becker was represented at the film festival with his second feature film Who loves in a glass house... Der Graben (also by Michael Verhoeven and starring Senta Berger ). Since then he has been one of the most sought-after actors in film and television and in German-speaking theaters. Other films followed: When mother struck , Sunday children (directed by Michael Verhoeven), Il decimo clandestino by Lina Wertmüller , Gavre Princip - Heaven under stones by Peter Patzak , The Unforgotten by Henner Schulte-Holtey and David Dietl , Monday come the windows by Ulrich Köhler , VerMission by Gerd Schneider , love story by Robert Bohrer and Emma Rosa Simon (Munich Film Festival 2018).

Since 1968, Hartmut Becker has played key roles in more than 100 German and international television films.

After engagements in Munich , Vienna and other German-speaking theaters, Becker played supporting roles , then at Berlin stages such as the Schiller Theater and the Renaissance Theater (Berlin) . From 2007 to 2012 Becker was a board member of the German Film Academy .

As a voice actor, he often lent his voice to the American singer and actor Kris Kristofferson .

Becker also appeared as a screenwriter and playwright. He received production and screenplay funding for his cinema projects Du schaffst es, üße , Outlaws and Weber's Night . His plays The Night of the Amazons and Bizone were published by Theaterverlag Desch.

Hartmut Becker lived in Berlin. In January 2022 he died at the age of 83 in Berlin-Spandau as a result of cancer .

Filmography (selection)

radio plays

Theater (selection)

  • 1966-1968: Braunschweig State Theater
  • 1968-1970: City Theater Bielefeld
  • 1970-1971: Munich Kammerspiele
  • 1971: Theater in the Josefstadt Vienna
  • 1972-1976: Bavarian State Theater in Munich
  • 1980: Salzburg Festival
  • 1980-1982: Schiller Theater Berlin
  • 1983-1984: Bavarian State Theater in Munich
  • 1984: Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin
  • 1986: Renaissance Theater Berlin
  • 2001: Piece Theater Berlin
  • 2010: Comedy Düsseldorf

awards

  • 1974: A.Z. Stern (Best Actor for Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet )
  • 1974: TZ Rose (Best Actor for Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and for Warwick in Saint Joan )
  • 1975: Best Young Actor of the Year (Magazine Theater Today )
  • 1981: Production funding from the Board of Trustees for Young German Film for the film project You can do it sweetie
  • 1987: Emmy Award Nomination (for the role of Wagner in Escape from Sobibor )
  • 1995: Screenplay funding from the Federal Ministry of the Interior for the screenplay Outlaws
  • 2008: Script funding from the Film-Fernseh-Fonds Bayern for the script Weber's Night

literature

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b On the death of the Berlin actor Hartmut Becker: The Striking . Daily mirror from January 23, 2023.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Becker. In: synchronkartei.de. Deutsche Synchronkartei , retrieved February 5, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor
BIRTH DATE May 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Berlin-Spandau