Wolfgang Becker
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Wolfgang Becker is a German film director, born in 1954 in Hemer, Westphalia.
Becker studied German, History and American Studies at the Free University in Berlin. 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 started working as a freelance cameraman in 1983 and graduated from the dffb in 1986 with Schmetterlinge (Butterflies), which won the Student Academy Award in 1988, the Golden Leopard at Locarno and the Saarland Prime-Minister's Award at the 1988 Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken.
He directed an episode of television drama Tatort, called Blutwurstwalzer, before making his second feature Kinderspiele (Children's Games, 1992), and the documentary Celibidache (1992).
In 1994, he joined the X Filme Creative Pool production company started by Tom Tykwer, along with 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), and is most famous for making Good Bye, Lenin! (2003).
