Anni Peterka

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Anni Peterka (born March 26, 1913 in Brno ; † December 21, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German dancer , ballet director and choreographer .

Life

Anni Peterka was born in Brno as Anne-Marie Spitz; as a result, the spelling of her name sometimes varies: Annie (= short form of Anne-Marie). In 1927 she made her debut as Däumling in the German National Theater in Weimar . From 1928 to 1932 she danced as an apprentice at the Städtische Oper in Berlin . Engagements as a solo dancer in Freiburg and Ulm followed. From January 1937 she was commissioned by the then director of the Ulm Theater , Reinhold Ockel , to set up her own dance group in Ulm. Although Peterka's work was respected and widely praised, in the early summer of 1942, as a so-called “eighth Jew”, she was taken from the rehearsal for “A girl like you” at the theater in Ulm and arrested. She was accused of "camouflaging as an Aryan". This was followed by internment in camp 21 in Salzgitter with prisoner number 1247. Her release and the release of her brother and mother were achieved in 1944 with the help of the composer Heinz-Friedel Heddenhausen , who had bribed Gestapo people for this. The Berlin Senate honored him for this in 1958 as an "unsung hero".

Anni Peterka moved to Berlin, where she danced her first public performance in front of the occupation soldiers on June 9, 1945. She then founded a ballet school, and from 1949 until the Wall was built in 1961 she worked as chief choreographer at the East Berlin Metropolitan Theater . From August 15, 1961, she worked as a ballet master and choreographer at NDR in Hamburg, where she a. a. the television ballets to recognize the melody created. After 1975 Anni Peterka still worked as a freelance choreographer.

literature

  • Elke Krafka: Danced contemporary history: Anni Peterka's life between dance and politics - Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  • Gunther Volz: 50 years of the ballet ensemble at the Ulm Theater 1936 / 37-1986 / 87 . Ulm Theater. Ulm 1987.

Movie

In 2001 the film Annie Peterka's Story by Karin Bey, Elke Krafka and Karla Nieraad was made, camera: Gisela Tuchtenhagen . It is based on a long interview with Anni Peterka, which does not refer to the roles of on the one hand perpetrator and on the other hand victim, in which Peterka did not place himself. The film premiered on January 27, 2002 in the town hall of Ulm on the commemoration day of the victims of National Socialism .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics, talking to Anni Peterka 1997 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  2. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics Chapter: Interview with Anni Peterka 1997 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  3. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced contemporary history: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics, chapter: Theater in Ulm from 1933 to 1945 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  4. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics Chapter: Theater Politics in National Socialism , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  5. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced contemporary history: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics, chapter: Theater in Ulm from 1933 to 1945 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  6. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics Chapter: Theater Politics in National Socialism , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  7. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics Chapter: Arrest , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  8. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics Chapter: prisoner number 1247 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  9. ↑ conVistaAlMar.com.ar: Full list of German rescuers . In: The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation . ( raoulwallenberg.net [accessed September 5, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics Chapter: Freudensprung and liberation Dance: Berlin after 1945 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  11. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced contemporary history: Anni Peterka's life between dance and politics, chapter: “From art to applied arts” , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  12. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics, talking to Anni Peterka 1997 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  13. ↑ Elke Krafka: Danced History: Anni Peterkas life between dance and politics, talking to Anni Peterka 1997 , Alibri-Verlag, Aschaffenburg 2000, ISBN 3-932710-29-0
  14. ↑ vh ulm :: White Rose Monument. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Peterka, Anni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peterka, Anne-Marie; Spitz, Anne-Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, ballet director and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2002
Place of death Hamburg