Meret Becker

Meret Becker (born 15 January 1969) is a German actress and singer.
Life and career
Meret Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She was raised in Berlin by her mother with her stepfather Otto Sander along with her brother Ben Becker. She is the granddaughter of comedian Claire Schlichting and the niece of the acrobat and comedian Jonny Buchardt.
In 1996, she married Alexander Hacke, a member of the 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 Ernal 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. Becker appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's film The Einstein of Sex (1999).
Meret has since recorded two studio albums, Nachtmahr, which featured Robert Rutman playing his giant sheetmetal instruments on several tracks, 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)
Interviewed by Clive James for the BBC special, Clive James's Postcard From Berlin (1995)
Stella Maris (duet with Einstürzende Neubauten) (1996)
Performed on Dorothy Carter's album Lonesome Dove (2000)
Selected filmography
Put on Ice (1980), as Anna
Werner – Beinhart! (1990), as Rumpelstilzchen
(1991), as Leah
(1992), as Hanna Hecht
(1992), as Bride
Little Sharks (1992), as Herta
Geteilte Nacht (1993), as Katrin
(1993)
Music Video for Stay (Faraway, So Close!) by U2 (1993, Video short), as Band's Lead Singer
The Innocent (1993), as Ulrike
Fernes Land Pa-Isch (1994, released in 2000), as Bibi
The Blue One (1994), as Isabelle Skrodt
Shameless (1994, TV film), as Rita
(1994), as Sunny Schaefer
The Promise (1994), as Sophie
Killer Condom (1996), as Phyllis Higgins
(1997), as Zille Watussnik
(1997, TV film), as Charlie
Life is All You Get (1997), as Moni
Comedian Harmonists (1997), as Erna Eggstein
Painted Angels (1998), as Katya
Hundert Jahre Brecht (1998), as Jenny
Das Gelbe vom Ei (1999, TV film), as Fanny Freese
Annaluise & Anton (1999), as Elli Gast
The Volcano (1999), as Tilly von Kammer
The Einstein of Sex (1999), as a worker
Rote Glut (2000, TV film), as Judith Vegener
(2000), as Lulu
Planet Alex (2001), as Frau
Heinrich der Säger (2001), as Teresa Grantke
Null Uhr 12 (2001), as Kathrin
Nogo (2002), as Maria
Mutti – Der Film (2003), as Dr. Loch
Poem – Ich setzte den Fuß in die Luft und sie trug (2003)
Hamlet_X (2003), as Hamlet
(2003, TV film), as Dodo
(2004, TV miniseries), as Lou Hofmann
(2004), as Sanja
(2005), as Jenny
The Call of the Toad (2005), as Sophia
(2005), as Maria Pinn
(2005), as Sophie Paulsen
Munich (2005), as Yvonne
(2006), as Mathilda Berger
My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler (2007), as Sekretärin
Messy Christmas (2007), as Pauline
Die Glücklichen (2008), as Helene
Peaceful Times (2008), as Musiklehrerin
Record 12 (2009), as Alena
Boxhagener Platz (2010), as Renate
Gurbet – Fremde Heimat (2010), as Irina
(2010), as Helena Seliger
Kokowääh (2011), as Charlotte
Fliegende Fische müssen ins Meer (2011), as Roberta Meiringer
(2011, TV film), as Katja
Sources of Life (2013), as Elisabeth Freytag
Wetlands (2013), as Helen's mother
(2013), as Harriet
Lügen und andere Wahrheiten (2014), as Coco
Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace (2016), as Lenker Gaby
A Change in the Weather (2017), as Kalle
Wer hat eigentlich die Liebe erfunden? (2018), as Alex
Liliane Susewind – Ein tierisches Abenteuer (2018), as Oberst Essig
(2019), as Britta
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
References
External links
Official website
1969 births
Living people
Actors from Bremen (city)
German film actresses
German television actresses
German voice actresses
German women singers
Musicians from Bremen (city)
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses