Meret Becker

Meret Becker
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Born	(1969-01-15) 15 January 1969 Bremen, West Germany

Meret Becker (born 15 January 1969) is a German actress and singer.

Life and career

Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She is the sister of Ben Becker, stepdaughter of Otto Sander and granddaughter of Claire Schlichting.

She was married 1996 to Alexander Hacke (member of a band Einstürzende Neubauten), who contributed songs to Becker's albums, including Noctambule. They separated in 2000 and divorced two years later. Becker was a guest musician on Einstürzende Neubauten's album Ende Neu, singing "Stella Maris" - in a duet with Blixa Bargeld.

She played the character Erna Eggstein in the 1997 German film Comedian Harmonists, as well as Katya, a prostitute, in Painted Angels. A year later, in 1998, she gave several performances along with Nina Hagen. The short but sold-out tour was titled "Wir heißen beide Anna" in which both Becker and Hagen sang several songs by Bertold Brecht, set to music by Paul Dessau and Kurt Weill.

Meret has since recorded two studio albums, Nachtmahr and Fragiles. Just like the first album, both of them contain songs, poetry and short stories, played with unusual instruments and avant-garde arrangements. In 1993, she appeared as the female singer in the U2 video for Stay (Faraway, So Close!). In 2005, she was a supporting actress in the film Munich, directed by Steven Spielberg.

Solo discography

• Noctambule (1996)
• Nachtmahr (1998)
• Fragiles (2001)
• Pipermint - Das Leben, möglicherweise OST (2005)
• Deins & Done (2014)

Collaborations

• 1993-'95 (live album with Ars Vitalis) (1995)
• Stella Maris (duet with Einstürzende Neubauten) (1996)

Selected filmography

• de (1990)
• de (1991)
• de (1992)
• de (1992)
• Music Video for Stay (Faraway, So Close!) by U2 (1993)
• de (1994)
• The Blue One (1994)
• The Promise (1995)
• Killer Condom (1996)
• de (1997)
• Diamanten küsst man nicht (TV movie) (1997)
• Life is All You Get (1997)
• Comedian Harmonists (1997)
• Painted Angels (1998)
• de (1999)
• Der Vulkan (1999)
• Der Einstein des Sex (1999)
• it (TV movie) (2000)
• lb (2004)
• Munich (2005)

Awards

• 1995 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress for Das Versprechen
• 1998 German Film Awards, Outstanding Individual Achievement: Supporting Actress in Comedian Harmonists
• 2005 Max Ophüls Festival, Film Score Award for Pipermint - Das Leben, möglicherweise OST

External links

• Official website (German)
• Meret Becker discography at Discogs
• Meret Becker at the Internet Movie Database