Claire Bauroff

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Claire Bauroff

Claire Bauroff (born February 26, 1895 in Weißenhorn ; † February 7, 1984 , born Klara Amanda Anna Baur ) was a dancer .

Live and act

Claire Bauroff took acting lessons in Munich and between 1913 and 1915 dance lessons with Rudolf Bode . She was a member of the Munich dance group around Andreas P. Scheller, which cultivated modern dance , but also worked as a stage and film actress. In 1920 she appeared in the film Pán by the Hungarian director Pál Fejös , which was not allowed to be shown due to strict censorship in Hungary .

In the twenties, Bauroff became famous for her artistic nude dance on Austrian and German stages. Her appearances in the Berlin Scala were celebrated. It owes its fame primarily to the nude photographs taken by Trude Fleischmann for advertising purposes , which have been extensively published. In 1925 these pictures were removed by the police from the preview display case of the Berlin Admiralspalastes , where Bauroff appeared.

Bauroff 1925 was also popular, then a mass audience reach "cultural film" Ways to Strength and Beauty been committed, among other things, nudism propagated. But the only scene in which she was involved was cut out. Only a still photo is preserved.

The writer Hermann Broch , who had an affair with Bauroff in 1922, dedicated the poem The Dancer to her . Broch stayed in correspondence with Bauroff until the end of his life in 1951.

Claire Bauroff's eldest brother was the well-known entrepreneur Friedrich Baur , founder of Baur Dispatch Burgkunstadt.

Movies

Web links

literature

  • Claire Bauroff: But change is life. Claire Bauroff - Poems . Edited and with an afterword by Ralf Georg Czapla . Bernstein-Verlag, Gebr. Remmel, Bonn 2011; ISBN 978-3-939431-61-9 .
  • Ralf Georg Czapla : made to measure. Hermann Broch's poems for the dancer Claire Bauroff. With an edition of the Bauroff - Broch correspondence and excerpts from the Bauroff - Burgmüller correspondence. In: Yearbook on Culture and Literature of the Weimar Republic 12 (2008), pp. 69–113. ISBN 978-3-88377-951-5 .
  • John Wendell Dodds: The Several Lives of Paul Fejos: A Hungarian-American Odyssey , Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1973, p. 1
  • Anton Holzer , Frauke Kreutler (eds.): Trude Fleischmann - The self-confident gaze , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902312-21-1 , pages 106 ff
  • Ralf Georg Czapla : Childhood of a Dancer. Claire Bauroff in Weißenhorn and Neu-Ulm. In: History in the Neu-Ulm district. Yearbook of the district of Neu-Ulm 19 (2013), pp. 117–130. ISBN 978-3-9812654-9-1 .
  • Ralf Georg Czapla : The unequal siblings. The entrepreneur Friedrich Baur and the dancer Claire Bauroff. Biography. Munich / Berlin / Zurich: Piper, 2015.
  • Claire Bauroff in the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the facsimile of the birth certificate in: Ralf Georg Czapla: Kinderjahre einer Tänzerin. Claire Bauroff in Weißenhorn and Neu-Ulm , p. 121.
  2. ^ Frank Thiess: Freedom until midnight. Vienna / Hamburg: Zsolnay, 1965, p. 340f.
  3. ↑ Ralf Georg Czapla: The unequal siblings. The entrepreneur Friedrich Baur and the dancer Claire Bauroff. Piper, Munich / Berlin / Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05725-7 , pp. 68 f .
  4. ^ Paul Michael Lützeler: Hermann Broch. A biography. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​1985.
personal data
SURNAME Bauroff, Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baur, Klara Amanda Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenhorn
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1984