Bernhard Wosien

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Bernhard Wosien (born September 19, 1908 in Passenheim , Masuria ; † April 29, 1986 in Munich ) was a German dancer , ballet master , choreographer and professor of expression education and dance as well as draftsman . Wosien is the founder of the modern (20th century) form of sacred dance , which today is primarily understood under this name in its area of ​​distribution.

Life

Bernhard Wosien was the elder of two sons of the Protestant theologian Louis Wosien and his wife Antoinette-Linda, born in 1917, who had a doctorate in The Historical Folk Song of Poland . Baroness of Buttler-Ponarth. In 1913/14 the family moved to Breslau , where in 1926 he became a member of the movement choir of the "Junge Bühne" founded by Oskar Schlemmer under the ballet master Helga Swedlund. In 1930 he obtained his higher education entrance qualification at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium there with the grades "very good" in drawing and art lessons as well as in sport. His drawing teacher was Paul Holz , who also taught at the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Breslau . The desired career as "drawing teacher" is noted on the certificate.

From the summer semester 1930 to the winter semester 1931/32 he studied Protestant theology at the request of his father at the University of Breslau (where his father worked as a lecturer in addition to his work as a pastor at the St. Trinity Church ). From the summer semester of 1931 he studied, initially simultaneously, until the winter semester of 1931/32 at the Art Academy in Breslau, where he came into contact with the masters Oskar Schlemmer , Georg Muche and Oskar Moll . After the academy was closed by the National Socialists , he continued his art studies from the summer semester 1932 to the winter semester 1932/33 at the State Art School in Berlin with Professors Willy Jaeckel , Willi Maillard , Rudolf Großmann and in art history with Oskar Fischel . During these years he received lessons in artistic dance from Valeria Kratina , Herbert Gargula and Aurel von Milloss . In 1933 and 1934 Wosien completed his ballet training with Tatjana and Victor Gsovsky and Lizzie Maudrik and worked as an assistant director to Jürgen Fehling and as a solo dancer at the municipal theaters of Augsburg, Düsseldorf and the Volksbühne Berlin. In 1934 and 1935 he continued his ballet studies in Paris with Lubov Egorova, a former dancer with the Ballets Russes .

Wosien's professional and artistic development included activities as a dancer, assistant director, ballet master, dance teacher, choreographer, dance scholar and draftsman. One of his most successful choreographies was the ballet Liebeszauber ( El amor brujo ) at the Stuttgart State Theater in 1947 in collaboration with Willi Baumeister as a costume and set designer. The performance was documented in numerous photos by Hannes Kilian .

His professional development then led him from a long-time stage dancer to a dance teacher who used dance and aspects of dancing in spiritual and curative educational contexts. Most recently Wosien was ao . Prof. - and expressive therapeutic methods). Bernhard Wosien's estate, including numerous drawings, is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .

Awards

Literature by Bernhard Wosien

  • In the onslaught of rhythms. Cranach, Munich 1959.
  • The way of the dancer. Self-awareness through movement. Veritas-Verlag, Linz 1988. (3rd, extended edition, edited by Maria-Gabriele Wosien: Metanoia, Bergdietikon 2008, ISBN 978-3-907038-60-4 ).
  • Maria-Gabriele Wosien (Ed.): Journey of a Dancer. A posthumous compilation. Sarsen Press, Winchester, Hampshire 2016, ISBN 978-0-9934358-2-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the German Dance Archive Cologne zu Wosien , accessed March 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Bernhard Wosien in an older database of the German Dance Archive Cologne ( Memento from February 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wosien, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ballet master, choreographer and professor of expression education and dance
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Passenheim , Masuria
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1986
Place of death Munich