Friederike Becht (born 14 October 1986) is a German actress.

Life

Becht was born in

Bad Bergzabern Bad Bergzabern () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, on the German Wine Route in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated near the border with France, on the south-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, approximately s ...

, and studied acting at the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

. She worked as an actor at the Ernst Deutsches Theater Hamburg, the

Schauspielhaus Zürich The Schauspielhaus Zürich () is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the history of German-speaking theater. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" (Peacock Stage). The large theatre has 750 seats. The also operates three stages ...

, the

Berliner Ensemble The Berliner Ensemble () is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langh ...

and the

Stadttheater Freiburg Theater Freiburg is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Freiburg Theatre, sometimes also referred to as Stadttheater Freiburg (Freiburg municipal theatre), formerly Städtische Bühnen (Municipal Stages) Freiburg, is the oldest and bigg ...

. Her first major success in 2007, was the role of Thekla in Peter Stein's ''Wallenstein'' at the Berliner Ensemble, for which she was honored by the magazine ''Theater heute'' with a nomination for "Best Newcomer Actress". In 2009/10 she was a member of the Ensemble at the . There she presented, among other things, the Solveig in ''

Peer Gynt ''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five-Act (drama), act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. ''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character fr ...

'', the title role in The Little Witch and the main role Tanja in the premiere ''Night History''. In the following season, she moved with director Anselm Weber to the

Schauspielhaus Bochum The Schauspielhaus Bochum is one of the notable drama theatres in Germany. It is located on Königsallee in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, ...

, where she is a permanent ensemble member. In Bochum she played, Lyudmila (Wassa's daughter) in ''Wassa Schelesnowa'', Cecily Cardew in ''Bunbury'', Maria in ''What you want'', the main role Vera Herbst in ''House by the lake'' and Maria in ''Yerma''. Becht also appeared in several television and cinema films. In 2008, she got a supporting role (Angela Berg) in the German-American co-production ''The Reader''. The following year, she played Gerda Reich in the television biography '. In 2011, she starred in the feature film ''Westwind''. In the feature film ''Hannah Arendt'', Becht shared the role with

Barbara Sukowa Barbara Sukowa (; born 2 February 1950) is a German actress of screen and stage and singer. She has received three German Film Awards for Best Actress, three Bavarian Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Venice Film Festiv ...

in 2012. In 2015, she appeared in the ARD biopic ' about

Käthe Kruse Käthe Kruse, born Katharina Simon (17 September 1883, in Dąbrowa, Opole County, Dambrau – 19 July 1968, in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a notable pioneer of German doll-making and went on to establish manufacturing principles which persist to this ...

, and in 2019 in ''

Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a ...

''.

Family

Becht has a son and a daughter with the poetry slammer ; she lives in

Bochum Bochum (, ; ; ; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348 (April 2023), it is the sixth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federa ...

Awards

*2014: Bochumer Theaterpreis * 2015: Ulrich Wildgruber Prize

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Becht, Friederike Living people 1986 births 21st-century German actresses German television actresses German film actresses People from Bad Bergzabern Berlin University of the Arts alumni Actresses from Rhineland-Palatinate