Georgia van der Rohe
Georgia van der Rohe (* March 2, 1914 as Dorothea Mies in Berlin ; † December 10, 2008 there ) was a German dancer, actress and film director.
Life
Georgia van der Rohe, daughter of the famous Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his wife Ada, grew up around Walter Gropius , Lyonel Feininger , Paul Klee , Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky . She attended Isadora Duncan's boarding school in Sanssouci Park , graduated from the Salem boarding school in Lake Constance and began her artistic career in the 1930s as a dancer with the artist Mary Wigman .
In the early years of the economic miracle , she worked as an actress at the Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern , with whose director Fritz Herterich she was married, as well as for film. At the Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern she played repeatedly under guest director Erwin Piscator . In the mid-1960s she directed her own films about her father and his colleagues at the Bauhaus, such as Klee and Kandinsky. In the 1970s she moved to New York and worked as a documentary filmmaker in Mexico, Russia and China. She returned to Berlin after German reunification in 1992.
In 2001 her autobiography La Donna è Mobile - My unconditional life was published .
Van der Rohe left two sons.
Film direction
- Expressionism 500 years ago: Mathias Grünewald and the Isenheim Altarpiece (WDR, 1967)
- Paul Klee (1966)
- Concrete, steel and glass , with Sam Ventura
- Mies van der Rohe (1979)
Fonts
- Georgia van der Rohe: La Donna è Mobile - My unconditional life . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-351-02520-3
literature
- The men were looking for me . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 10, 2001
- She wanted shine and applause, she wanted to fly, especially now . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 5, 2009; obituary
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georgia van der Rohe: La Donna è Mobile - My unconditional life . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-351-02520-3 , p. 213
- ↑ Mies van der Rohe: A daughter remembers: Excerpts from the biography of Georgia van der Rohe
- ^ Anne Jelena Schulte: Obituaries Georgia van der Rohe (born 1914) , Der Tagesspiegel , February 6, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rohe, Georgia van der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bad, Dorothea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dancer, actress and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 2008 |
| Place of death | Berlin |