Thorsten Becker (writer)

Thorsten Becker (born September 4, 1958 in Oberlahnstein ) is a German writer .

Life

Thorsten Becker grew up in Cologne . After attending grammar school , he began acting training in Vienna at the Max Reinhardt Seminar . He then studied philosophy , history , sociology and theater studies at the Free University in Berlin . He worked as an actor and assistant director in Cologne, Stuttgart and Bochum and made numerous trips, including to the Middle East and North Africa . Today he lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. The author writes poems, essayistic and autobiographical texts as well as dramatic scenes and translates from French.

Thorsten Becker is a member of the German PEN .

Works

• The guarantee, Zurich 1985
• The nose, Cologne 1987
• Schmutz, Zurich 1989 (based on the film by Paulus Manker )
• Diary of the Arab trip, Zurich 1991
• Mitte, Berlin 1994
• Beautiful Germany, Berlin 1996
• The subject climbs to the magic mountain, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001
• The appeasement, Reinbek near Hamburg 2003
• Winner on points, Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004
• Fritz, Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006
• The Eternal House, Roman, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009
• Agrippina. Seneca's consolation for the mother killer Nero, Roman, Hamburg 2011

Awards

Thorsten Becker received the Aspect Literature Prize and the FAZ Prize for Literature in 1985 and the Turin Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1990 . He was funded in 2002 with a residency grant at Künstlerhof Schreyahn and in 2008 with a Villa Massimo grant . In 2005 he was town clerk for Rheinsberg .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thorsten Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Thorsten Becker at perlentaucher.de
• Entry in the literature lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate