Meret Becker


Meret Becker 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.
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 ". 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 Anna
  • Werner – Beinhart!, as Rumpelstilzchen
  • ', as Leah
  • ', as Hanna Hecht
  • ', as Bride
  • Little Sharks, as Herta
  • Geteilte Nacht, as Katrin
  • '
  • Music Video for Stay by U2, as Band's Lead Singer
  • The Innocent, as Ulrike
  • Fernes Land Pa-Isch, as Bibi
  • The Blue One, as Isabelle Skrodt
  • Shameless, as Rita
  • ', as Sunny Schaefer
  • The Promise, as Sophie
  • Killer Condom, as Phyllis Higgins
  • ', as Zille Watussnik
  • ', as Charlie
  • Life is All You Get, as Moni
  • Comedian Harmonists, as Erna Eggstein
  • Painted Angels, as Katya
  • Hundert Jahre Brecht, as Jenny
  • Das Gelbe vom Ei, as Fanny Freese
  • Annaluise & Anton, as Elli Gast
  • The Volcano, as Tilly von Kammer
  • The Einstein of Sex, as a worker
  • Rote Glut, as Judith Vegener
  • ', as Lulu
  • Planet Alex, as Frau
  • Heinrich der Säger, as Teresa Grantke
  • Null Uhr 12, as Kathrin
  • Nogo, as Maria
  • Mutti – Der Film, as Dr. Loch
  • Poem – Ich setzte den Fuß in die Luft und sie trug
  • Hamlet_X, as Hamlet
  • ', as Dodo
  • ', as Lou Hofmann
  • ', as Sanja
  • ', as Jenny
  • The Call of the Toad, as Sophia
  • ', as Maria Pinn
  • ', as Sophie Paulsen
  • Munich, as Yvonne
  • ', as Mathilda Berger
  • My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler, as Sekretärin
  • Messy Christmas, as Pauline
  • Die Glücklichen, as Helene
  • Peaceful Times, as Musiklehrerin
  • Record 12, as Alena
  • Boxhagener Platz, as Renate
  • Gurbet – Fremde Heimat, as Irina
  • Life Is Too Long, as Helena Seliger
  • Kokowääh, as Charlotte
  • Fliegende Fische müssen ins Meer, as Roberta Meiringer
  • ', as Katja
  • Sources of Life, as Elisabeth Freytag
  • Wetlands, as Helen's mother
  • ', as Harriet
  • Lügen und andere Wahrheiten, as Coco
  • Mann im Spagat: Pace, Cowboy, Pace, as Lenker Gaby
  • A Change in the Weather, as Kalle
  • Wer hat eigentlich die Liebe erfunden?, as Alex
  • Little 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