Albert Burkat

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Albert Burkat (born April 20, 1906 in Herne ; † December 11, 1975 ) was a German ballet dancer, dramaturge and librettist.

Life

After his dance training at the Folkwang School in Essen, he was engaged as a dancer at the local theater in 1937, as a soloist at the Hof- / Staatstheater Stuttgart from 1938 to 1939 and as a dancer at the German State Opera in Berlin from 1939 to 1944. From 1946 to 1955 he was artistic advisor in the ballet management and from 1951 as the official ballet dramaturge. As a librettist for Lilo Gruber's ballets, which are strictly committed to the doctrine of so-called socialist realism , and as the favorite librettist of the composer Victor Bruns , many collaborations that were important for the modern ballet of the GDR took place since 1953 . Burkat also worked with the composer Wolfgang Hohensee .

  • July 12, 1953 World premiere of the ballet The Law of the Lord (Jus primae noctis). op. 27 by Victor Bruns (music), Albert Burkat (librettist) and Daisy Spies (choreographer) at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
  • 1954 World premiere of the ballet Das Edelfräulein as a farmer's wife. op. 31 by Victor Bruns and Albert Burkat at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
  • November 16, 1957 World premiere of the ballet Neue Odyssey. op. 33 by Victor Bruns and Albert Burkat at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (directors: Lilo Gruber; dancers a.o .: Regina Gallo , Ilse Hurtig , Nora Mank ).
  • Theseus trilogy . Ballets by Victor Bruns and Albert Burkat
    • The Band of Ariadne, op.46 (1969)
    • Ariadne auf Naxos, op.54 (1974)
    • Phaedra, op. 56 (1975)

On March 30, 1960, Burkat and Victor Bruns were awarded the GDR Art Prize in the Apollo Hall of the German State Opera Unter den Linden .

Works

Ballets

  • Victor Bruns, Albert Burkat: The right of the Lord (Jus primae noctis). Ballet in two pictures. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1954, OCLC 174163339 .
  • Victor Bruns, Albert Burkat: The noble lady as a farmer's wife: Ballet in three pictures , op.31, libretto by Albert Burkat based on the story of the same name by A. Pushkin 1954.
  • Fritz Geissler, Albert Burkat, Gunther Hauer: Pigment: Ballet in 5 pictures for orchestra and choir. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1959, DNB 1002730201 .
  • Victor Bruns, Albert Burkat, Gerhard Keil : New Odyssey: Ballet in 5 pictures. Albert Burkat's dance shop; Piano score edit by Gerhard Keil. Breitkopf & Härtel, 1960, DNB 1001723465 .
  • Thrushbeard. A ballet comedy in 5 pictures. based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm by Albert Burkat. Music by Wolfgang Hohensee , drawings by Edmund Konstruktor. Metropol-Theater, Berlin 1959.

Texts

  • Albert Burkat: The secret garden. Ullstein, Berlin 1947, OCLC 19426439 .
  • Albert Burkat: La Compagnie de mime "Marcel Marceau", Paris. Berlin theater u. Concert Agency GmbH, Volksbühne, 1954, DNB 572571704 .
  • Albert Burkat: The ballet of the German State Opera. In: German State Opera Berlin. 1955, pp. 39-44.
  • Albert Burkat - remarks on the work. with pictures by Bert Heller. In: Swan Lake. Program sheets and booklets of the German State Opera Berlin on Unter den Linden. 1959.
  • Albert Burkat: Ballet de Cuba. Guest performance in the German Democratic Republic. German concert u. Guest performance management GmbH, Berlin 1960, DNB 577114107 .

literature

  • Kurt Peters : Albert Burkart has died. In: Das Tanzarchiv , 24th vol. H. 2 / February 1976, p. 63f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Tanzarchiv , February 1976, p. 63.
  2. ^ Horst Koegler: Theater in Berlin after 1945
personal data
SURNAME Burkat, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ballet dancer, dramaturge and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1975