Cilli Wang

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Cilly Wang (1961)

Cilli Wang (born February 1, 1909 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died July 10, 2005 in Vienna) was a Dutch-Austrian dancer and cabaret artist .

Life

Cilli Wang trained at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts ( Max Reinhardt Seminar ) with Gertrud Bodenwieser . In 1929 she showed her first dance performance. She lived in Berlin from 1932 . Here she worked in the famous cabaret Katakombe and in the same year married the director and author Hans Schlesinger . Both worked closely together until his death in 1945. In 1935/36 she appeared in Erika Mann's cabaret Die Pfeffermühle in Zurich . In 1938 Cilli Wang and Hans Schlesinger emigrated to the Netherlands, her parents were victims of the Holocaust.

In the Netherlands she performed with dance and speaking numbers in cabarets, she mainly gave the soup kaspar , the "Struwwelpeter" and the tezzilie (after Morgenstern). After the invasion of the German troops, the couple lived in hiding from 1941 to 1945. After the war she stayed in the Netherlands and became Dutch in 1952. The artist did not return to Vienna until 1975. The Theater Museum in Vienna showed the first exhibition about her in 1981.

Her pantomime dances and performances with parodistic, grotesque and illusionistic elements - which she herself called metamorphoses (for which she also designed the costumes and dolls herself) - she showed on many tours through Europe , Israel , Indonesia , from 1946 to the 1970s . Africa , the USA , Cuba and Australia . For her performance, which was a rarity in her time, she was called Pavlova of the Parody . Initially appearing in ensembles, she was interested in the connection between spoken word and movement. She created dance movement numbers for Goethe , Wilhelm Busch or Christian Morgenstern , which she soon recited herself. She parodied Frau Hitler and made fun of folk dances. Her talent for comical numbers led to comparisons with Charlie Chaplin . Cilli Wang also performed in the legendary Simpl in Vienna. The big dolls she handled on stage became her trademark. She was friends with Elias Canetti, among others .

Wang left a large, artistically valuable legacy, which today u. a. is managed by the literary archive of the Austrian National Library , the exile library of the Literaturhaus Wien, but also by the Theatermuseum Wien and whose cohesion was her concern during her lifetime. After her death, the question arose how the collection could be preserved.

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SURNAME Wang, Cilli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabaret artist and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2005
Place of death Vienna