Renate Becker

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Renate Becker (* 1935 in Hanover ) is a German actress , psychologist and author .

Life

Becker is the daughter of the actress Helma Seitz (1913–1995) and the actor Theodor Becker (1880–1952). The actress Maria Becker (1920–2012) is her half-sister.

The parents' marriage ended in divorce in 1937. After the Second World War, Helma Seitz married the British businessman Arthur Hartog, with whom she emigrated to Canada via England. Renate Becker grew up in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan and later near Montreal. There she received the High School Leaving Certificate of Lachine Protestant High School in 1952 with an award from the Governor General "for general proficiency". She also won a scholarship from the Lachine Soldiers Chapter, Imperial Daughters of the Empire for top grades in the senior year 1951-1952.

1952–1954 she studied at the Leland Powers School for Radio, Television and Theater in Boston. In 1955 she received a scholarship for the Herbert Berghof Actors Studio in New York. She played in summer theaters in Canada, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.

After her return to Germany, she attended the State University of Music, Department of Drama in Hamburg from 1956 to 1957, and then had engagements in Tübingen, Basel, Lübeck, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Frankfurt. From 1997 to 2014 she was a continuous guest at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . The director Jürgen Kruse and the artistic directors Gert Becker, Matthias Hartmann and Elmar Goerden were of particular importance for their development.

After having passed the recognition test for her High School Leaving Certificate and thus obtained higher education entrance qualification, she began to study psychology at the University of Cologne in 1979 , which she completed with the diploma examination in 1985, title of the diploma thesis: Problems with the assessment of criminal responsibility in the context of American criminal law .

From 1985–1993 she worked as a scientific consultant for the WDR program “Hilferufe”. She conducted explorations, created personality assessments and wrote scripts based on them, looked after clients and answered mail from viewers. She also worked as an expert in the forensic field and for the State Central Office for Distance Learning in Cologne.

She was married to the Egyptologist Hermann Schlögl and to the screenwriter Axel Plogstedt. Both marriages ended in divorce. Renate Becker and Hermann Schlögl have a daughter, Helma Schlögl. She died of leukemia in 2012 at the age of 53.

Filmography (selection)

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Publications

  • Hilde Wagenbach - I've been alone since the death of my mother (screenplay), program for help, WDR 3, 1986
  • Anni Kempf - You don't leave a sick partner (screenplay), broadcast help calls WDR 3,1987
  • >> Love is fashion. << Friederike Roths, The whole one piece in: German Drama of the 80s, ed. by Richard Weber, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 1992, ISBN 9783518386149
  • My journey through original sin: A Nazi Hero , Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2005, ISBN 978-3833426872
  • My journey through original sin - Sympathy for the Devil , intermediate steps 14th year 2/1995, p. 110, Bouvier Verlag
  • I slapped Dennis Hopper Anke Johanning (pseudonym for Renate Becker). Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 3-8311-3401-4

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personal data
SURNAME Becker, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover