Lars Becker
Lars Becker (born January 12, 1954 in Hanover ) is a German film director , screenwriter and crime writer .
Life
Lars Becker first worked as a printer, later he was a bartender in a trendy bar that he shared with friends in Hamburg-St. Pauli opened and transported cars to the Middle East to Syria and Lebanon as a driver
He studied film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and in New York City . Right from the start, his work was varied, so in 1990 he made a documentary with Africa around the corner , he wrote scripts for the series Der Fahnder and wrote two detective novels. After a series of television games , he made his cinema debut with Schattenboxer in 1992 . In 1995 the cinema thriller Colorful Dogs followed, in 2000 he made the film Kanak Attack , the script he wrote together with the author Feridun Zaimoglu based on his novel Kanak Spraak. His TV thriller Save Your Skin received a nomination for best TV film for the German TV Prize in 2002 . The police film series Nachtschicht , which has been produced since 2003, also originated from Becker's pen , the consequences of which were Amok and Wir sind die Polizei were nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2004 and 2011 , respectively. In 2011 Becker won the German TV Crime Award for the film Amigo , and in 2016 the German TV Award for Best Director for the TV thriller To Die Too Early .
Becker is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg and the German Film Academy. Lars Becker has two sons (* 1986, * 1997) and lives with his wife, the hypnosis therapist Niloufar Kolai in Berlin.
Filmography (selection)
- 1988: Kalte Sonne (screenplay and director)
- 1990: Africa around the corner (screenplay and direction)
- 1992: Schattenboxer (screenplay and direction)
- 1995: Colorful Dogs (screenplay and direction)
- 1999: The Yellow from the Egg (screenplay and direction)
- 2000: Kanak Attack (screenplay, director, co-producer)
- 2000: Two Brothers - Death in the Lake (screenplay and direction)
- 2001: Save Your Skin (Writer and Director)
- 2002: Deployment in Hamburg - Return of the Devil (Director)
- since 2003: Night Shift (screenplay and direction)
- 2003: Tatort - Jungle Brothers (screenplay and direction)
- 2004: Deployment in Hamburg - In Love Mord (director)
- 2004: Sperling - Sperling and the last chance (screenplay)
- 2006: Tatort - Man Overboard (Director)
- 2008: The Wisdom of the Clouds (Director)
- 2008: A shame about the nice money (screenplay and direction)
- 2010: Amigo - Death On Arrival (Screenplay and Director)
- 2011: Tatort - The Way to Paradise (Director)
- 2012: Wrapped in a wrong way (scriptwriter and director)
- 2012: Ghost Driver (screenplay and direction)
- 2012: Never trust your wife
- 2012: Money rules the world (screenplay and direction)
- 2013: Unter Feinden (screenplay and direction)
- 2014: We're going through until tomorrow morning (script and direction)
- 2015: Too early to die (screenplay and direction)
- 2015: My Stranger Woman (screenplay and direction)
- 2016: The One with the Beat (Director)
- 2017: The Good Bull (screenplay and direction)
- 2018: Rich or Dead (screenplay and direction)
- 2019: The Good Bull - Eat or Die (Screenplay and Director)
- 2019: Truth or Lie (screenplay and direction)
Detective novels
- Amigo . Rotbuch, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-88022-054-9
- Cold sun . Rotbuch, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88022-101-4
Awards
- 1994: Otto Sprenger Prize
- 2002 French television award Recontres Internationales de Television for Save your skin
- In 2011, Becker was awarded a special prize for outstanding individual performance at the awarding of the German television crime prize for Amigo - When Death Arrives .
- In 2016, Becker was honored for Best Director at the award ceremony for the German TV Prize for the crime thriller To Die Too Early .
literature
- Manfred Hobsch, Ralf Krämer, Klaus Rathje: Filmszene D. The 250 most important young German stars from cinema & TV . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-511-2 , p. 37
Web links
- Lars Becker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lars Becker at Crew United
- Lars Becker at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Lars Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars Becker at www.kino.de , accessed on January 23, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Lars |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director, screenwriter and crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |