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Jürgen Becker (born 10 July 1932, in
Cologne) is a German poet, prose writer and radio play author. He won the 2014
Georg Büchner Prize.
Life
Jürgen Becker's family moved from Cologne to
Erfurt in 1939, so that he experienced the war as a child in
Thuringia. In 1947, he went to
Waldbröl in
West Germany.[1] In 1950, he moved back to his native city of Cologne. From 1950 to 1953, he attended a high school there until graduation. He then began studying German, which he broke off in 1954.
From 1959 to 1964, he was a member of the
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and from 1964 to 1966, lecturer in the
Rowohlt publishing house. He became a freelance writer in 1968. From 1973, he was director of the
Suhrkamp Theater Publishing, and from 1974 to 1993, director of the radio play department in
Deutschlandfunk.
Jürgen Becker emerged in the sixties, with a highly experimental kind of literature, which sat on the open form mainly from opposition to conventional narrative. In later texts, the landscape continues to play an important role in Becker's poetry. In addition to the poems that make up his major work, Becker also wrote stories and radio plays. Since 1994, his contributions have appeared in the journal Sinn und Form, edited by the
Akademie der Künste (Berlin).
In 2012, under the title '"In Hell of Silence" The Author Jürgen Becker', the first documentary about Jürgen Becker appeared, by Christoph Felder, an 80-minute portrait (b / w, publisher Die Neue Sachlichkeit, production CFF) with his own words and some few short excerpts of his colleagues Günter Grass, Uwe Johnson and Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Group 47).
Family
Becker has been married to the artist
Rango Bohne since 1965 and lives near Cologne, in
Odenthal. Becker's son is the photographer and filmmaker
Boris Becker [
de].
Works
Bilder, Häuser, Hausfreunde. Drei Hörspiele. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1969; Teilausgabe mit einem *Nachwort des Autors: Häuser. Hörspiel. Reclam, Stuttgart 1972,
ISBN978-3-15-009331-3.