Antoinette Becker


Antoinette Becker was a French-German author, especially of books for children and young people. She also translated, such as Aribert Reimann's opera Lear.

Career

Born Antoinette Mathis in Strasbourg, she was the secretary of Ernst Rudolf Huber, professor of constitutional law at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg. She met there her future husband who worked as an assistant, and later became a lawyer and politician of education. The couple raised six children, including the lawyer Nicolas Becker, the psychoanalyst Stephan Becker, Sophinette Becker, and also the foster child Joachim Nettelbeck.
Becker translated, including Aribert Reimann's opera Lear for the premiere in France in November 1982 at the Paris Opera. She died in Berlin.

Works