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Foxtrot in the Erfurt Stadium by Jürgen Becker, translated by Martyn Crucefix Dani Spinosa The Ministry of Flowers isJrgen Becker (1932 2024) was born in Cologne, but moved eastwards with his family in 1939, to Thuringia, where he remained until 1947, when the family returned to the Western part of the country and then again to Cologne in 1950. From 1959 to 1964, Becker worked for WDR (West German Radio), and then moved on to become an editor at the Rowohlt publishing house in Hamburg. He went freelance in 1969, and became director of Suhrkamp's theatre publishing