Anni Becker
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Anni Becker (1926 in Kaiserslautern – 22 June 2009[1]) was a German musician, writer, poet, and performer of popular and folk songs. She was a teacher by profession, and taught actively until 1991.[2]
Becker was born in 1926 to Jakob and Magdalena Moessel in Kaiserslautern, Germany. As a child, she sang frequently in choir groups and churches in the area.[1] At the age of 20, she graduated from a women's school in Kaiserslautern, and moved to the Suedwestfunk studio to work the following autumn. While working at the studio, she also studied at the Pedagogical Academy in Kirchheimbolanden, and completed the Staatsexamen for German language, arts, and religion in 1952. She married Hans Becker the same year, with whom she would raise four children.[3]
