Aenne Goldschmidt

Aenne Goldschmidt , b. Michel, also Aenne Goldschmidt-Michel (born November 8, 1920 in Bern ; † January 24, 2020 ) was a Swiss dancer, pedagogue and choreographer who was particularly active in the GDR .

Life

She received her training at Emmy Sauerbeck's dance school in Bern and then worked, partly freelance and often with Roger George , as a dancer in Switzerland. In Bern she was active in communist cells in the 1930s, even after the Communist Party was banned in 1940. With her husband Harry Goldschmidt , she co-founded the Swiss Labor Party (PdA) in 1944 . Because of her communist views, she and her husband moved to the GDR in 1949.

With an amateur group, she studied choreography for the World Youth Festival in Budapest in 1949 . For her work at the next World Festival in East Berlin in 1951 , she was the first dance maker to be awarded the GDR National Prize in 1952 .

From 1951 to 1959 Goldschmidt was the leader of the dance group of the State Folk Art Ensemble of the GDR. She then worked as a freelance choreographer and teacher. Among other things, she wrote the three-volume manual of German folk dance (1967–1970). After the collapse of the GDR, she returned to Switzerland in 1994, where she lived in Riehen .

literature

Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon. Reclam, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-010328-2 .
Philipp Mäder: Between all stools. In: The daily newspaper . October 19, 2002.

Individual evidence

^ Anna Goldschmidt-Michel: Obituary notice. In: sich-erinnern.ch. Basler Zeitung , February 10, 2020, accessed on March 6, 2020.
^ Farewell: Aenne Goldschmidt. In: tanz, magazine for ballet, dance and performance, March 2020, accessed on March 6, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b GDR Swiss Aenne Goldschmidt: “A dream is broken” , in: Observer 22/1999 of October 22, 1999, online version ( memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 23, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Goldschmidt, Aenne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Michel, Aenne (maiden name); Goldschmidt-Michel, Aenne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss dancer, teacher and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bern
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 2020
Place of death	Bern

[1] Anna Goldschmidt-Michel: Obituary notice. In: sich-erinnern.ch. Basler Zeitung , February 10, 2020, accessed on March 6, 2020.

[2] Farewell: Aenne Goldschmidt. In: tanz, magazine for ballet, dance and performance, March 2020, accessed on March 6, 2020.

[beobachter-3] GDR Swiss Aenne Goldschmidt: “A dream is broken” , in: Observer 22/1999 of October 22, 1999, online version ( memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 23, 2015.