After completing his national service in the East German army in the 1950s, during which time he became firm friends with the actor Manfred Krug, Becker studied philosophy in East Berlin but was expelled for expressing non-conformist views.
In 1976 the East German government (GDR) forbade Krug to work as an actor and singer because he participated in protests against the expulsion and stripping of GDR citizenship of Wolf Biermann.
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1966: Lyrik - Jazz - Prosa (with Eberhard Esche, Gerd E. Schäfer, Annekathrin Bürger and others, in different editions and under different names, some of them in censored versions without Manfred Krug)
The then-fashionable Bulgarian singer Liana Antonova and the East German film star Manfred Krug appeared in the film.
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Abgehauen is a 1998 German television documentary directed by Frank Beyer and based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Manfred Krug.
The scripts of seasons one through three and five were written by Jurek Becker, who tailor-made the role of idiosyncratic Berlin Kreuzberg attorney Robert Liebling for his friend Manfred Krug, the fourth season was written by Ulrich Plenzdorf.