Annelise Löffler
Annelise Löffler , also Anneliese (born March 22, 1914 in Münster , † July 21, 2000 in Cologne ) was a German photographer.
Live and act
Annelise Löffler's childhood and youth were overshadowed by two tragic events: her mother died very early and in 1933 her father, Prof. Dr. Klemens Löffler , the founding director of the Cologne University and City Library . In the 1930s Annelise Löffler first worked as a translator; In 1946 she was employed as a laboratory assistant and photographer for the "Bild- und Filmberichtätze Walter H. Schmitt" in Cologne and made numerous stage recordings during this time. Later she documented the buildings of the Cologne company Bauwens for many years.
In addition to material and architectural photographs (e.g. several series of soffits of prestressed concrete bridges) and a wealth of studies from everyday life, the main focus of her photographic work is in the field of artistic stage dance. It was here that Annelise Löffler gained supraregional importance, for example through the regular documentation of the annual International Summer Academy of Dance in Cologne.
A small selection of the personalities she photographed reads like a “who's who” of the dance world of that time: Alwin Ailey , Sonia Arova, Gerhard Bohner , Trisha Brown , Christopher Bruce, Nina Corti , Anton Dolin , Louis Falco, Gus Giordano, Tatjana Gsovsky , Melissa Hayden , Rosella Hightower , Kurt Jooss , Henning Kronstam, Pearl Lang, Hans van Manen , Matt Mattox, Samy Molcho , George Skibine, Marjorie Tallchief , Glen Tetley , Antony Tudor , José de Udaeta , Yuriko etc. and at the same time proves the international importance the academy.
She also photographed the choreographic competitions in Cologne, where u. a. Reinhild Hoffmann , Susanne Linke , Krisztina Horvath, Marilén Breuker, Eiko und Koma and James Saunders presented their early (most) own choreographies to the public.
Annelise Löffler photographed the performances of the Cologne Dance Forum, various guest performances by international companies in Cologne, and also on her travels the most well-known local stage dance ensembles in London, The Hague, Nancy and Basel, the annual Essen dance awards, the conferences of the Dt. Academy of Dance etc. and for many years the lessons and performances of the children's dance classes of the internationally renowned German children's dance teacher Gisela Peters-Rohse. Countless prints in specialist books, dance magazines and ballet calendars prove her work.
Löffler died in 2000 at the age of 86 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (corridor 10 (T)). Your dance-related estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne
literature
- Exhibition catalog: Pas de trois: Annelise Löffler, Anneliese Planken, Wilhelm Gorré. June 22 to August 12, 2001. German Dance Archive Cologne, SK Foundation for Culture and Culture Office of the City of Cologne, 2001
Web links
- Biographical page and images, from the German Dance Archive Cologne
- Literature by and about Annelise Löffler in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ epitaph
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löffler, Annelise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löffler, Anneliese |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2000 |
| Place of death | Cologne |