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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One of Mary Wigman’s most famous students was Gret Palucca, who soon achieved a similar level of fame as a solo dancer and also established her own school in Dresden in 1925. After the Second World War, she was able to re-found and expand her school and educate generations of dancers – despite constant conflicts with cultural functionaries of the GDR – not only physically but also spiritually and artistically to creativity and independence. As a founding member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR, she was its vice-president from 1965-1970, which is why Palucca’s actual estate is in
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Among Laban’s students was the German dancer and dance teacher Jenny Gertz (1891-1966), who became known mainly for her dance work with children. Gertz’s communist commitment led to the closure of her school in Halle/Saale by the Gestapo during National Socialism. She emigrated to Prague and later to England, where she continued teaching children’s dance. After the end of the Second World War, Gertz returned to Halle/Saale, where her pedagogical principles and methods were hardly recognised. Her estate at the Tanzarchiv Leipzig contains letters, manuscripts and teaching materials as well as photographs and short films. Research
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The founder of modern dance in Germany, Mary Wigman began her dance career in Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’s school of rhythmic gymnastics in Hellerau. In 1912 she left Hellerau and became a pupil and collaborator of Rudolf von Laban in Ascona, Munich and Zurich. Wigman’s work as one of the best-known dancers and choreographers of expressive dance contributed greatly to the establishment of dance as an independent art form. In 1920 she opened her school in Dresden, which she continued to run until 1942. During the war she moved to Leipzig, where she continued to teach under increasingly difficult conditions. In the
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The German dance critic and theorist Fritz Böhme studied literature and art history in Berlin. As department head of the arts section of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, he published his dance reviews almost daily for years from 1919 onwards. In the Weimar Republic, Böhme was a driving force behind the establishment of dance congresses, dance journals and dance teaching forums. His main goal was the creation of a national dance academy and a national archive for dance history. His estate contains materials on the dance scene of his time: essays, manuscripts and lectures, Böhme’s correspondence, documents on contemporary dancer personalities,
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One of the most important holdings of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig is the estate of the dancer, choreographer and dance theorist Rudolf von Laban. With his “School for Art” on Monte Verità near Ascona, he developed ideas for a new movement pedagogy and a movement script from 1911 to 1917, which he further perfected at the end of the 1920s (Kinetography or Labanotation). Due to his artistic, theoretical and pedagogical impulses, he is considered a pioneer and co-founder of modern dance in Germany, where he also had a significant influence on amateur dance through movement choruses. In the 1930s, Laban also
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Together with her husband Julius Blasche, the folk dance collector, choreographer and author is one of the most important personalities of the folk dance movement in Germany in the 20th century. As a member of the Wandervogel movement, she collected and published traditional folk dances and created her own dance games. After the Second World War, she worked to promote exchange between folk dancers in West and East Germany. The Anna Helms-Blasche Collection contains her correspondence, dance booklets, manuscripts, postcards, photographs and newspaper cuttings. Research
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