Rolf and Alexandra Becker
Rolf Becker (born November 25, 1923 in London ; † November 3, 2014 in Rottach-Egern ) and Alexandra Becker (born July 10, 1925 in Hamburg ; † October 24, 1990 in Bad Wiessee ) were a German-English couple. After Alexandra Becker's death, her husband continued to write alone under the name Rolf A. Becker, using the A. as a reminiscence of his wife.
Life
Rolf Becker experienced his youth in Erfurt and made his first attempts at writing while being a prisoner of war in England. He then worked as a production manager at various film companies and had initial contacts with the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation , but then went to the BBC as a radio director and author . From 1953 he worked as a freelance writer.
The officer's daughter Alexandra Becker learned the acting profession with Gustaf Gründgens as a master student. In addition to engagements in Berlin , Potsdam and Lübeck , she played at the Schauspielhaus in her home town of Hamburg . There she met the writer Rolf Becker. The two married in 1953. Alexandra Becker gave up her acting profession and also turned to writing. Together, the couple wrote numerous radio plays, television films, novels and stories.
The two authors' best-known works include The Experts , Allow Me, My Name Is Cox and Dickie Dick Dickens . The novels about Dickie Dick Dickens became the first street sweepers on German radio as radio plays , as did the setting of Paul Cox's adventures , which resulted in a film adaptation and a television series. With these radio plays, the writer couple wrote radio history. The couple wrote television history with the scripts for the first German family series Familie Schölermann (1954).
Works
Books
- Dickie Dick Dickens, (Verlag Glock & Lutz, Heroldsberg 1959) New edition: dtv - ISBN 3423102551
- Dickie Dick Dickens Assault Report , Gryphon - ISBN 3935192169
- Dickie Dick Dickens gives no heel money, Glock & Lutz, 1961
- Dickie Dick Dickens versus Chicago, dtv 1984 - ISBN 3423103590
- Dickie Dick Dickens makes waves, dtv - ISBN 3423105852
- COX I: Allow me, my name is Cox - a joker in the fight with the underworld, (Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh 1961) New edition: Lübbe - ISBN 3404007883
- COX II: Murder on luggage ticket 3311, (Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh 1962) New edition: Signum
- COX III: Freight for Hell, (S. Mohn / Signum, Gütersloh 1968) New edition: Lübbe - ISBN 3404010574
- COX IV: Allow me, my name is Cox: The Five O'clock Murder, Stellfeld - ISBN 3935192649
- Rolf A. Becker: Rendezvous with my murderer, (Bastei 37032, 1977) New edition: Lübbe - ISBN 3404006186
- Rolf A. Becker: The man from Eaton Place, Heyne 8973, 1994 - ISBN 3453073533
- Rolf A. Becker: Allow me, my name is Cox - the corpse was just there after all , Gryphon 2000 - ISBN 393519241X
- Schölermann family, Dörner Verlag, Düsseldorf 1960 - ISBN 3871521949
- Rolf A. Becker: Marienhof - the novel for the television series, 1991 Ehrenwirth - ISBN 3548231470
- Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Antonia - Between Kaiserwalzer and Preussens Gloria, Ullstein 1991 - ISBN 3548226221
Radio plays
- Rolf A. Becker: Oh, you don't know Stanley Adler? Directed by Jürgen Dluzniewski , MDR 1998
- Rolf A. Becker: Der Schrei des Kormoran , directed by Isabel Schaerer , SRF 2002
Web links
Rolf Becker
- Literature by and about Rolf Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rolf Becker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Alexandra Becker
- Literature by and about Alexandra Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alexandra Becker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The writer Rolf A. Becker died on November 3rd, 2014 , on hoerspielealk.de
- ↑ Rolf Becker. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, pp. 53-54, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .