In his unmistakable sound, Jürgen Becker writes inner monologues for listeners. Offering traces, points of access into his own biography. His childhood during and after the war corresponds with the memories of his generation, his current experience with the perceptions of his contemporaries, who are not so young anymore. »Every day writes along with us, and it does not let us read its notes every day.« And that also means that there is always a silence speaking too, where the forgotten finds no words and the repressed chooses not to speak.
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Jürgen Becker
Jürgen Becker was born in Cologne in 1932. After abandoning his studies at university, he began working as a freelance writer and for years he made his living with various jobs. He worked for the broadcasting station WDR and for the publishing houses Rowohlt and Suhrkamp. He was head of the radio drama department of Deutschlandfunk for twenty years, until 1993.
Jürgen Becker received great attention with his first work of prose, Felder (1964), while the two subsequent books Ränder (1968) and Umgebungen (1970) consolidated his reputation as an author of experimental literature. At the same time, he contributed to the emergence of the New Radio Play with his first radio plays. In the 1970s and 1980s, Jürgen Becker focused his attention on...
Jürgen Becker was born in Cologne in 1932. After abandoning his studies at university, he began working as a freelance writer and for years he...
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Collected Poems
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The Return of Habits

Grey Geese over Toronto

Now the Scenery of Back Then

From the Bay of Cologne

The Sea in the Radio
English world rights (Seagull)

The Following Pages

Snow in the Ardennes

From the History of Separations

The Missing Rest
Jörn is concerned with those memories that are like little islands in the sea of the past. Linking them together and expanding them is his narrative impulse, whereby, after initially uncertain tactile...

Collected Poems
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Don't Tell Me About the War
France (Actes Sud)

Edges
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Fields
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