Albert Talhoff
Albert Talhoff , actually Ludwig Albert Meyer (born July 31, 1888 in Solothurn , † May 10, 1956 in Lucerne ), was a Swiss writer and director .
Talhoff's major dramatic work Totenmal premiered in Munich in 1930. The dramatic-chorical vision for word, dance, light dealt with the theme of death from the First World War in a late expressionist view and with speaking and movement choirs. The choreography was created by Mary Wigman , who alternated as a solo dancer with Vera Skoronel . Alexander Kamaroff danced the role of the (war) demon . The wood-carved masks, which in contrast to the costumes burned in a Munich theater fund during World War II, still exist today (in three public collections in Switzerland and Germany), were made by Bruno Goldschmitt .
In 1930 he took part in a meeting of the Oxford group in the house of Fritz Andreae in order to prepare a world religion conference at the world exhibition in Chicago.
Albert Talhoff was married in his first marriage to Viktoria, the daughter of Count von Alvensleben auf Neugattersleben , who had married against the will of her father Talhoff and was therefore no longer allowed to enter her parents' house. - There is a portrait bust of Talhoff by Renée Sintenis .
Works
- Death mark. Dramatic-choral vision for word, dance, light. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1930.
literature
- Hermann Bahr : Diary. February 26th. Neues Wiener Journal, 38 (1930) # 13038, 16. (March 9, 1929) (Review Totenmal )
- Degeners who is it? Degener, Berlin 1935, p. 1590.
Web links
- Publications by and about Albert Talhoff in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Albert Talhoff's estate in the HelveticArchives archive database of the Swiss National Library
- Page about Albert Talhoff at the German Dance Archive Cologne .
- Christine Wyss: Talhoff, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula von Mangoldt , "On the threshold between yesterday and tomorrow - encounters and experiences", Weilheim 1963, p. 93
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Talhoff, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Ludwig Albert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1956 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |