The estate of this dance group, which was formerly directly subordinate to the GDR Ministry of Culture, is on permanent loan to the Federal Archives in Potsdam. The ensemble, consisting of a folklore ballet, a choir and a band, was based in Neetzow Castle from 1953 to 1964, and in Neustrelitz from 1964 to 1991. The dance performances were based on traditional and newly developed folk dances. Rosemarie Ehm-Schulz was in charge of the dance group until 1987, then Cornelia Nenz. The collection contains newspaper articles and magazines, programmes, slides and photos as well as audio and film tapes.
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The collection is on permanent loan from the Federal Archives Potsdam and includes materials from the ensemble’s scientific documentation centre, which served the choreographers in preparing the dances (e.g. materials on geography and history, dance forms/families, methods, folk dances as well as tapes, photos and newspaper articles). The ensemble emerged from the State Song and Dance Ensemble, the successor to the National Cultural Group of the Free German Youth founded on 1 April 1950. In 1952, the dance ensemble was integrated into the Berlin Volksbühne. When the choir was dissolved in 1962, it was renamed the “State Dance Ensemble of
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The century of the dance (2019) With this exhibition from 24 August to 21 September 2019 under the motto “Was der Körper erinnert. Zur Aktualität des Tanzerbes” (English: What the body remembers – The relevance of the dance heritage), an attempt was made at the Academy of Arts in Berlin to build a bridge between the tradition of modern dance in Germany, which already spans more than a hundred years, and contemporary dance practice on the basis of selected collections from the dance archives. A showcase on the Tanzarchiv As part of a seminar by Dr Melanie Gruß on the
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A large number of meetings, symposia and conferences have already been organised for the exchange of specialist topics, questions and methods based on the holdings of Tanzarchiv Leipzig, which have always addressed the public interested in dance with special programme items and whose results are usually documented in publications. Dance in pictures – Plural constellations of Photography Virtual video conference from 28 – 30 January 2021 Perspectives of Digital Humanities in Dance and Theatre ResearchOnline workshop on 9 January 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Body/Politics: Dance forms, institutions and actors in the GDR (13 – 15 November 2014)
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After studying musicology, Petermann came to the Central House of Culture, where he was initially tasked with setting up a department for folk dance. This eventually developed through his dedicated collecting and research activities into the Tanzarchiv Leipzig. Thus, Petermann’s estate also reveals the history of the Tanzarchiv. His correspondence with the Central House for Folk Art, the Academy of Arts as well as dancers and dance institutions in Germany and abroad testifies to his important role in the political-cultural life of the GDR. The Petermann collection also provides insights into a creative, restless personality who was always developing new
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The German pianist, music and dance scholar studied with Curt Sachs and Erich Moritz von Hornborstel in Berlin. In 1936 he emigrated to The Hague and returned to the GDR in 1952, where he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Musik und Gesellschaft until 1959, from 1957 also co-editor-in-chief of the music magazine Melodie und Rhythmus and from 1959 professor and rector of the Hochschule für Musik, which received the name “Hanns Eisler” through his initiative. Rebling authored several writings on dance, including: Ballet gestern und heute (Berlin 1957), Tanz der Völker (Berlin 1972) and Die Tanzkunst Indonesiens (Berlin 1981). His
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Born in Riga, the dancer, ballet master and choreographer Henn Haas studied at Vera Fokina’s ballet school and at the Trümpy-Günther School in Berlin from 1926 to 1932 and also took classes with Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman and Harald Kreutzberg. From 1938 he worked with his Theatre of Dance in Weimar and Erfurt. After the war, he took over the choreographic direction of the FDGB dance ensemble in the newly founded GDR and worked as a choreographer at the Landestheater Halle. In addition to numerous ballets, he also created choreographies for film and television. The collection contains newspaper articles,
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Coming from the Wandervogel movement, Oetke was active from 1924 as a collector of folk dances and melodies and published numerous essays on traditional folk art and folk dance collections. From 1945, together with Aenne Goldschmidt, he helped to build up the “State Folk Art Ensemble” of the GDR. He was able to publish his extensive work “Der deutsche Volkstanz” in two volumes in the GDR in 1982. His collection contains material on folk dance and Oetke’s own work. Research
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Erich Janietz became known above all for his efforts in the field of German folk dance. Influenced by the Wandervogel movement and the Free German Youth Movement, he was one of the important personalities of the folk dance movement in Germany before and after the Second World War, together with Ludwig Burkhardt, Herbert Oetke, Anna Helms-Blasche and Julius Blasche. In addition to his work as a gymnastics and folk dance teacher, he published the magazine “Der Volkstanz” from 1925 and the magazine “Der Tanzkreis” from 1930. In the GDR he worked at the Central House for Folk Art and was
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