Meret Becker

Meret Becker is a German actress and singer.

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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.
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'.
Since 2020, she appeaered as a character of Esther Kasabian in a German neo-noir television series Babylon Berlin.

Solo discography

Noctambule Nachtmahr Fragiles Pipermint - Das Leben, möglicherweise OST

''Deins & Done''

Collaborations

1993-'95

Interviewed by Clive James for the BBC special, Clive James's Postcard From Berlin Stella Maris
Performed on Dorothy Carter's album ''Lonesome Dove''

Selected filmography

Put on Ice, as AnnaWerner – Beinhart!, as Rumpelstilzchen', as Leah

', as Hanna Hecht', as BrideLittle Sharks, as HertaGeteilte Nacht, as Katrin
' Music Video for Stay (Faraway, So Close!) by U2, as Band's Lead SingerThe Innocent, as UlrikeFernes Land Pa-Isch, as BibiThe Blue One, as Isabelle SkrodtShameless, as Rita', as Sunny SchaeferThe Promise, as SophieKiller Condom, as Phyllis Higgins
', as Zille Watussnik', as CharlieLife is All You Get, as MoniComedian Harmonists, as Erna EggsteinPainted Angels, as KatyaHundert Jahre Brecht, as JennyDas Gelbe vom Ei, as Fanny FreeseAnnaluise & Anton, as Elli GastThe Volcano, as Tilly von KammerThe Einstein of Sex, as a workerRote Glut, as Judith Vegener
', as LuluPlanet Alex, as FrauHeinrich der Säger, as Teresa GrantkeNull Uhr 12, as KathrinNogo, as MariaMutti – Der Film, as Dr. LochPoem – Ich setzte den Fuß in die Luft und sie trug Hamlet_X, as Hamlet', as Dodo
', as Lou Hofmann', as Sanja
', as JennyThe Call of the Toad, as Sophia', as Maria Pinn
', as Sophie PaulsenMunich, as Yvonne', as Mathilda BergerMy Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler, as SekretärinMessy Christmas, as PaulineDie Glücklichen, as HelenePeaceful Times, as MusiklehrerinRecord 12, as AlenaBoxhagener Platz, as RenateGurbet – Fremde Heimat, as IrinaLife Is Too Long, as Helena SeligerKokowääh, as CharlotteFliegende Fische müssen ins Meer, as Roberta Meiringer
', as KatjaSources of Life, as Elisabeth FreytagWetlands, as Helen's mother', as HarrietLügen und andere Wahrheiten, as CocoMann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace, as Lenker GabyA Change in the Weather, as KalleWer hat eigentlich die Liebe erfunden?, as AlexLittle Miss Dolittle, as Oberst Essig
', 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