Education
Becker studied Germanistics, History and American Studies at the Free University in Berlin.
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Becker studied Germanistics, History and American Studies at the Free University in Berlin.
He is best known to the international audience for his work Good Bye Lenin! (2003).
He followed this with a job at a sound studio in 1980 and then began studies at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb). He directed an episode of television drama Tatort, called Blutwurstwalzer, before making his second feature Kinderspiele (Child"s Play, 1992), and the documentary Celibidache (1992). In 1994, he co-founded the production company "X Filme Creative Pool" with Tom Tykwer, Stefan Arndt, and Dani Levy.
From there he worked with Tykwer on the Berlinale competition feature Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (Life is All You Get, 1997).
He was a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2004.