Chinita Ullmann

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Chinita Ullmann , also Chinita Ullman , actually Frieda Ullmann , also Friedel Ullmann , (born March 14, 1904 in Porto Alegre , † May 30, 1977 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian dancer . She is considered a pioneer of modern dance in Brazil.

biography

Frieda Ullmann was the daughter of Emil Paul Friedrich Ullmann (1870–1952) and his wife Wanda Wilhelmine (1880–1944). She had five siblings. Her father had emigrated from Silesia to Brazil, where his wife's family of German descent was already based. Ullmann developed an interest in music and painting early on, but her passion was dance. Since there were few opportunities in her home country to train and develop further, she went to Dresden at the age of 15 and studied dance with Mary Wigman . From 1925 to 1927 she was a member of the Wigman Company. She then separated from the group in order to have her own dance evenings, which earned her the recognition of dance critics such as Artur Michelbrought in. She appeared in Germany as Friedel Ullmann , when she took the stage name Chinita ( little stone ) is unknown.

Chinita Ullmann toured all over Europe, often together with Carletto Thieben , a former dancer from La Scala in Milan . In the 1929/30 season she performed with the Indian dancer Udai Shan-Kar and the German dancer Gret Palucca at the Teatro di Torino . At the end of the 1920s, Chinita Ullman founded her own dance and gymnastics school in Cologne ( Hohenstaufenring 30 ). she lived in the Lindenthal district . Her students included Lieselotte Heymansohn , who became known as Lotte Berk , and her future husband, the dancer and composer Ernst Berk . Chinita Ullmann sat down as an author in the magazine Die Tanz-Gemeinschaft, published by the Wigman teacher Felix Emmel , with topics such as "male and female dance" (about the difference between male and female expression in dance) or "unknown dances of South America" apart. She was celebrated on a tour through her native Brazil: "Magnífico espetáculo, novo, moderno, inédito no Rio até ontem." ("A great spectacle, new, modern, never seen before in Rio.") A tour of Latin America followed .

Ullmann then returned to Europe before finally settling in Brazil again in 1932. In the same year she was one of the co-founders of the Sociedade Pró-Arte Moderna (SPAM) in São Paulo , which still exists today (as of 2018). Together with her student Kitty Bodenheim (1912 in Cologne - 2003 in São Paulo), who was still trained in Germany , she opened the "Academia de Bailado", in which modern expressive dance by Wigman and movement principles by Rudolf von Laban were taught. Her house was a meeting point for Brazilian creatives like Lasar Segall , Gregori Warchavchik , Vittorio Gobbis , Tarsila do Amaral and Antonietta Rudge . Her parents had obviously moved to Germany, because her father was registered as a farmer in Schöneiche (today Proszków ) near Neumarkt in Silesia in 1944 , where her mother died that same year. Emil Ullmann then returned to Porto Alegre, where he died in 1952 and was buried in the local evangelical cemetery.

From 1948 Chinita Ullmann worked as a teacher at the Escola de Arte Dramática (EAD) of Alfredo Mesquita . In 1954 she had her last appearance together with the well-known Brazilian dancer Décio Stuart . She then retired to her country house, where she cultivated and raised orchids . She died in 1977; her remains were cremated at her request.

The Brazilian actresses Myriam Muniz and Aracy Balabanian were awarded the Prémio Chinita Ullmann .

Programs (selection)

  • Danze di Carletto Thieben primo ballerino dell'Opera di Berlino e Chinita Ullman: stagione quinta 1929-30 . Società degli amici di Torino; Teatro di Torino.
  • Chinita Ullman. Sunday, March 8, 1931, 11:15 a.m.; One-time dance matinee . Musical direction: Momme Mommsen . Masks: Peter Hoffmann. Costumes: Lotte Braumann. Düsseldorf, 1931

literature

  • Maria Claudia Alves Guimarães: Chinita Ullman: e os primórdios da dança moderna em São Paulo . São Paulo, 2003, university thesis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chinita Ullman. In: deutsches-tanzarchiv.de. Retrieved October 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Photo by Chinita Ullmann on slub-dresden.de (PDF file)
  3. ↑ a b c d Frieda "Chinita" Ullmann (1904 - 1977): Brazilian-german genealogies. In: heuser.pro.br. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller: The Ivo: Shades of an expression body. In: tanz.at. August 3, 2016, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ il Teatro di Torino - La Stagione 1929–30. Accessed October 2, 2018
  6. ^ Address book for Cologne and the surrounding area . Greven, 1930, p. 1099 .
  7. ↑ a b Histories: Biografia resumida de Chinita Ullmann: Brazilian-german genealogies. In: heuser.pro.br. June 25, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018 .
  8. ^ Ciane Fernandes: The Moving Researcher. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-1-784-50034-4 , p. 50 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  9. ^ Instituto Itaú Cultural: Escola de Arte Dramática (EAD) - Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. In: enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br. November 3, 2016, accessed October 5, 2018 (Portuguese).
  10. ^ Myriam Muniz de Melo. In: famososquepartiram.com. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Chinita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ullmann, Frieda (real name); Ulmann, Chinita; Ullmann, Friedel; Ullman, Chinita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Alegre
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1977
Place of death São Paulo