Rolf Becker (actor)

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Rolf Becker (2016)

Rolf Becker (born March 31, 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Rolf Becker is the son of an officer. He grew up with his grandparents in Osterstedt in Schleswig-Holstein . In 1943 his father died in the war. From 1945 Rolf Becker attended the Alte Gymnasium in Bremen. After graduating from high school, he took acting lessons at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich from 1956 to 1958 . In 1957 Becker made his stage debut at the Münchner Kammerspiele in the play The Dreyfus Affair by Hans José Rehfisch and Wilhelm Herzog . From 1958 he was engaged at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and from 1962 at the Stadttheater Ulm . In 1963 he moved to the Bremen Theater , where he also directed and from 1965 was senior director of the opera. In 1969 he was released without notice and then worked as a freelance actor. From 1971 Becker worked for the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . Since then Becker has lived in Hamburg and worked as a freelance actor.

From the beginning of the 1960s, he became known for roles in theater and literary adaptations on German television. He played u. a. 1962 in the remake of the Blum affair by Robert Adolf Stemmle , embodied the pilot officer included in fried potatoes according to Arnold Wesker in 1966 , in 1969 the son Johannes in the Heinrich Böll satire Not only at Christmas time , in 1972 the Prussian King Friedrich the Great in the six-part Die Strange Life story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck and in 1975 the role of Carlos Henke in education by maids according to Robert Wolfgang Schnell .

Directed by Franz Peter Wirth he embodied the 1978 Octavio Piccolomini in the four-part Wallenstein - film based on Golo Mann and 1984 William of Orange in the television version of Egmont . He also appeared under his direction as Bernd von Vitzewitz in the six-part Before the Storm after Theodor Fontane and as Duke Alba in Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos .

Becker's appearances in New German Films include roles in Cardillac (1969) by Edgar Reitz , Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame (1969) by Peter Zadek and I love you, I kill you (1971) by Uwe Brandner (* 1941) . In 1975, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, he played the public prosecutor Peter Hach in the Böll film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum . In 1999 he appeared in the German-Hungarian co-production A Song of Love and Death - Gloomy Sunday by Rolf Schübel . Becker portrayed the old German businessman Hans Wieck , who was researching his childhood sweetheart in Budapest. His youthful counterpart, an SS officer, was his son Ben Becker . In 2001 he played the weird station master Kurt Grantke in Klaus Gietinger's satirical road movie Heinrich the Säger . His film daughter Teresa was played by Becker's daughter Meret .

There are also numerous guest appearances in German television crime series such as Derrick , Der Alte , Tatort , Ein Fall für Zwei , SOKO 5113 , SOKO Cologne , Die Männer vom K3 , Wolffs Revier , Der Bulle von Tölz , Großstadtrevier and Coast Guard . Becker was or can also be seen in the soap opera Leo and Charlotte (1991), the doctor series Friends for Life (1992-1993), in the family series Der Nelkenkönig (1993) and, since 2006, in the hospital series In All Friendship , their first Follow he was already seen in a guest role. In the early 2000s, Becker acted in melodramatic television plays based on novels by Rosamunde Pilcher and Inga Lindström , but also in time-critical television films such as in 2005 in Mutterglück by Christian Görlitz and Die Nachrichten by Matti Geschonneck .

Activity as a voice actor

Rolf Becker also frequently works as a voice actor. He lent his voice to Ben Cross in 1985 in Palace of the Wind , Jeremy Irons in Stories from Hollywood in 1994 , Jacques Perrin in 1986 in The Panther , and in 1999 the title character of the German-French-Canadian cartoon Babar - The King of the Elephants . Becker also speaks for commercials and is often employed as a spokesperson for television documentaries (including yesterday's news ) and children's programs. He has also been working closely with the Silberfuchs publishing house since 2005, where he is the main speaker of the audio book series Landing - Discovering Cultures , which he also performs live as readings with music. In the “Reformation Year” 2017, he and the drummer Stefan Weinzierl gave concert readings from the audio book Martin Luther - Freiheit, Gnade, Mensch .

family

Rolf Becker was married to the actress Monika Hansen (* 1943). In 1971 the couple divorced. The marriage gave birth to the children Ben Becker (* 1964) and Meret Becker (* 1969), who are also successful stage and film actors. Becker has been married to the actress and acting lecturer Sylvia Wempner since 1980 and lives in Hamburg. The Becker / Wempner couple are active in environmental and peace policy issues. They have three sons together.

Political commitment

Rolf Becker 2012

Becker is a member of the ver.di trade union , media department and on the Hamburg local board of this trade union.

He is one of the co-founders of the Berlin Heinrich Heine Prize.

Rolf Becker supported the international committee for the defense of Slobodan Milošević .

The actor initially campaigned against the controversial International Maritime Museum Hamburg in Kaispeicher B in HafenCity Hamburg. In the meantime, Becker has distanced himself from this.

The request for clemency from former RAF member Christian Klar , which was based on suggestions from Günter Gaus in spring 2003, was supported by Rolf Becker. From April 2003 to January 2006, at the suggestion of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice and in agreement with the Bruchsal correctional facility, he was the official voluntary supervisor of Christian Klar. In 2003, the actor applied for an internship for Klar on behalf of his union with the director of the Berlin ensemble, Claus Peymann .

Rolf Becker supports the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal and in May 2001 gave the laudatory speech at the awarding of the Erich Mühsam Prize to the deathly sentenced Afro-American journalist. In September 2009 he visited Mumia Abu-Jamal on death row.

The actor is also one of the signatories of an appeal to defend the then Venezuelan head of state Hugo Chávez after international criticism as a result of the non-renewal of an expired broadcasting license on the conservative television channel RCTV . Since the beginning of 2008, Becker has been reading the Communist Manifesto in German cities . The events, which are organized by left-wing political organizations (e.g. anti-capitalist left ) and in some cases also financed, often attract several hundred listeners. In 2016 he gave the laudatory speech for Esther Bejarano at the award ceremony for solidarity and human dignity by the Alliance for Social Justice and Human Dignity .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays and audio books

Readings

Works

  • Poet unknown Heinrich Heine text sequence by Rolf Becker and Claus Bremer. Self-published, Hamburg 1973.
  • Still a communist? Memories of Paul Elflein. Edited by Rolf Becker and Claus Bremer. Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-87975-157-9 .
  • 28 years on death row. Article about civil rights activist Mumia Abu-Jamal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film- und Fernsehmuseum Hamburg: Persons: Rolf Becker ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Stefan Weinzierl - Dates. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Berlin Heine Prize for Handke , Der Tagesspiegel Online / dpa, February 22, 2007
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ Ralf Dorschel: “No question was asked about the citizen” ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.web-hh.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hamburger Morgenpost , September 17, 2005
  6. ^ Matthias Gretzschel: Tamm-Museum: Rolf Becker takes back criticism , Hamburger Abendblatt , May 23, 2008
  7. ↑ Philipp Wittrock: Gaus interview with Christian Klar: Documentary drama behind bars , Spiegel Online, February 1, 2007
  8. ↑ Marlies Fischer and Maike Röttger: "He is preparing for a different life" , Hamburger Abendblatt, February 11, 2007
  9. ↑ Rolf Becker: What Günter Gaus planned as the last chapter ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopos.org archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ossietzky , issue 2004/23
  10. ^ Death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal receives Erich Mühsam Prize , Hanseatic City of Lübeck, press release from May 15, 2001
  11. ↑ Almost all white people outside, mostly African American in prison
  12. ^ Tunnel view of Venezuela , Neue Rheinische Zeitung (online), June 6, 2007
  13. ↑ "We owe you an infinite amount" Laudation
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig