Ben Becker
Corona crisis is having a financial impact
Ben Becker has been without a job for a year.
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In the art and culture scene in particular, the corona crisis is making itself increasingly noticeable financially. Ben Becker can also tell you a thing or two about it.
The actor Ben Becker (56, "Ich, Judas"), like many of his colleagues in the art scene, has been without a job for a year. In an interview with "Bild am Sonntag", the enfant terrible now tells about his current situation. His last theater performance was in March 2020: "Then the lockdown came – and that was it. Suddenly the carpet is pulled from under your feet. That was tough."
He would never have thought that this crisis would hit art and culture so hard. At the beginning he too thought that after four weeks life would go on again: "We now know that things turned out differently." Financially it is tight, but he is lucky that he was well positioned in November 2019, so that he has now received help: "So I don't have to advertise chocolate balls yet." He also doesn't have to pitch a tent on the street yet.
"But I have to wait a little longer for the dream house in the Uckermark," admits Becker, who also says: "I'm not completely broke yet." In contrast to colleagues: "I've heard of opera singers from Salzburg who now work for the delivery service and carry crates of drinks to the fifth floor." But he doesn't have to do that yet. It is clear to him that – when the going gets tough – he would report to the scaffolding: "I've always liked physical work."