Jurek Becker (Writing)

Jakob the Liar

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Release Date:1999-09-16

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:369

While All Germans Sleep

After 50 years, Marek remembers his dangerous adventure as a five-year-old, when he and his friend Itzek left a Polish transit camp one night in 1942 – a few days before their evacuation to Auschwitz – to go get the toys they forgot at the ghetto. Based on Becker's personal memories and his 1980 short story "The Wall."

Release Date:1995-07-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

So schnell es geht nach Istanbul

A sensitively told Encounter between a Turkish migrant worker and a woman from East-Berlin, shortly after the fall of the wall - full of incertainty and situational comedy.

Release Date:1991-02-17

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Blauer Panther

Release Date:1989-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.

Release Date:1988-05-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

Das Literarische Quartett - Aspekte

Release Date:1988-03-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Liebling Kreuzberg

Liebling Kreuzberg was a television series on ARD, which was sent in five seasons with a total of 58 episodes the first time from 1986 to 1998. The scripts of seasons one through three and five were from Jurek, of his friend Manfred Krug wrote the role of idiosyncratic Berlin attorney Robert favorite on the body, the fourth season was written by Ulrich Plenzdorf. Director Heinz Schirk, Werner Masten led and Vera Loebner. Producing Series transmitters were the SFB, the NDR and WDR. The music of the first season was. Hans-Martin Majewski, in the later seasons of Klaus Doldinger.

Release Date:1986-02-17

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Herbert Monk

Episode Count:[ 1 ]

Vote Count:6

Leute

Release Date:1983-03-07

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Telestar

Release Date:1983-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

David

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.

Release Date:1979-02-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

Das Versteck

One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So he concocts a sneaky plan: he asks Wanda to hide him from the police, who are apparently looking for him. At first, Wanda rejects all his attempts to restart their relationship. But she is soon unable to resist Max's convincing promises and even throws her lover out of the house. But then she discovers Max's lie.

Release Date:1978-11-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.

Release Date:1975-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:26

My Zero Hour

Germany in 1943. The Berlin worker Klaus Hartung is deployed as a soldier to the Eastern front during World War II. During a tour, he is captured by a Russian patrol. While in captivity, Hartung comes to the conclusion that he has to come through and actively take part in the effort to end the war. He consents to abduct a German officer together with two Russian soldiers. During their adventurous mission, the men who at first had been enemies, become sincere friends.

Release Date:1970-04-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Maiden, You please Me

A Saxon village in 1792: While the Prussians go against France, the haymaking takes place in the village and the resolute Marthe catches her daughter Ev with the village blacksmith Ruprecht in the hay.

Release Date:1969-03-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

Ohne Paß in fremden Betten

Release Date:1965-11-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Grimme-Preis-Verleihung

Release Date:1964-01-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Zur Person

Release Date:1963-04-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Deutscher Filmpreis

Release Date:1951-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1