Birgitta Trommler

Birgitta Trommler (born January 29, 1944 in Munich ) is a German dancer , choreographer and director .

She took lessons from Maja Lex in Cologne and then went to the USA, where José Limón and Merce Cunningham were among her teachers. Drummers danced in various American ensembles, including Katherine Dunham and the Philadelphia Dance Theater . She has also been a choreographer since 1967.

Back in Germany, she took over the choreography for the film Der Räuber Hotzenplotz . In 1976 she founded the “Munich Dance Project” in Schwabing, which still exists today. It includes a dance school with its own dance company. In 1989 Birgitta Trommler became director of the Münster dance theater, which is part of the Münster Municipal Theaters . In 1996 she took over the management of the dance division at the Darmstadt State Theater .

Birgitta Trommler created numerous theater dance pieces that she staged herself, including Makrokosmos (1976), Night Passage (1976), Riesen raus (1982), Trau, schau wem (1984), Stella (1986), Everyone is a small company (1989) , Welcome to Reality (1991), Like Lulu (1992), Present. I need the present (1997), The Photographer (1999) and In the Sandpit (2000). In 1987 she directed the film If I Only Know the Answer .

Web links

• Birgitta drummers in the Internet Movie Database (English)