Maria Becker

Later Becker worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, and at the Residenztheater in Munich. Together with her husband and the theatrical actor Will Quadflieg, Becker founded the traveling theater company Die Schauspieltruppe Zürich (or Zürcher Schauspieltruppe) in Zurich in 1956, with which she made numerous tours throughout the German-speaking world, as well as the United States.

Becker divorced Robert Freitag in 1966. However, the couple continued to work together until the 1990s, especially on productions for the company Zürcher Wanderensembles, which they both founded. The couple had three children, two of whom were actors, Benedict Freitag and Oliver Tobias .

Becker was known internationally for her portrayal of great female figures, such as Electra, The Maiden of Orleans or Ifigenia, working for media such as the British Broadcasting Corporation in works by Euripides, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and George Bernard Shaw. Among other works, she acted in Faust in 1977, at the Residenztheater, playing the main female character. In Germany he also participated in numerous radio drama productions, for stations such as Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. She also frequented the cinema and television, being recognized by the public for her performance in television series such as Derrick and Der Alte. At the same time he devoted himself to management in his company Schauspieltruppe Zurich. In it, her son Benedict Freitag, who led the ensemble with her in the 1980s, assumed her solo direction in 1987.

Maria Becker passed away in 2012 in Uster, Switzerland, at the age of 92 She was buried in the Enzenbühl Cemetery, next to her mother's grave