Dita Von Teese

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Dita Von Teese (2018)

Dita Von Teese (born on September 28, 1972 as Heather Renée Sweet in Rochester , Michigan ) is an American dancer and entrepreneur. She is considered the most important contemporary representative of New Burlesque and also appears as a model , singer and actress . Your stage name is pronounced in the USA like tease (Eng. 'Irritate' or 'tease') and understood as a play on words. It was originally intended by her as a homage to the German actress Dita Parlo .

Life

Dita Von Teese at the 2007 Cannes International Film Festival
Von Teese is an important representative of New Burlesque

Through her maternal grandmother, Dita Von Teese is partly of Armenian origin. She started taking ballet lessons at the age of four and wanted to become a professional dancer. An injury ended the plans, but favored the implementation of their stage shows in later years, in which they still have to this day. A. dances in pointe shoes. When she was twelve, she moved to Orange County, California with her parents and two sisters . She later sold expensive underwear in a boutique next to school. It was there that her fondness for extravagant fashion was awakened. After finishing school she studied fashion history ("historic costuming"). In 1991 she recreated photos of Bettie Page and is therefore still often compared to her today:

"Not since Bettie Page has a fetish model inspired such passion as covergirl Dita Von Teese."

"Since Bettie Page, no fetish model has excited the minds as much as cover girl Dita Von Teese."

- Playboy

Von Teese started one of the first model pages on the Internet, on which she has so far published more than 10,000 self-created photos. She was photographed by photographers such as Ellen von Unwerth , Dewey Nicks , Juergen Teller , PR Brown , Rankin , Lionel Deluy , Sean McCall , Perou , Christophe Mourthe , Pierre et Gilles and Gottfried Helnwein . In 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2008 she was photographed for Playboy .

It was suggested to her to find a surname. Originally, at the beginning of her career she had simply called herself Dita , based on the silent film star Dita Parlo . In the phone book she came across Von Treese and dialed him. However, Playboy incorrectly printed it as Von Teese , which Dita immediately accepted and from now on called herself Dita Von Teese .

As an actress, she was seen from 1995, initially under her real name Heather Sweet, in films such as Romancing Sara and Matter of Trust . Under the direction of the porn director Andrew Blake she appeared - as Dita - in Decadence and Pin-Ups 2 in explicitly lesbian scenes (including joint dildo games with Anita Blond ). Under the pseudonym Bedroom Betty , she also previously undressed for Internet videos in front of the camera.

2004 was a promotional video for the underwear brand Agent Provocateur- in which Dita Von Teese a George W. Bush - Double visits with him and sadomasochistic games drives. The song for it, a cover version of the song She's Lost Control ( Joy Division ), was contributed by Siobhan Fahey , singer of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister . For her role in the gala in the short film The Death of Salvador Dali , Von Teese was awarded Best Female Performance at the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2006 . At the haute couture shows in February 2006, she ran as a model for Jean Paul Gaultier . In October 2006 she made a guest appearance at Crazy Horse in Paris. The following year she appeared again as an actress in the horror film Saint Francis . In 2008 Von Teese accompanied the Viennese building contractor Richard Lugner to the Vienna Opera Ball . In an erotic pose, she also adorned the cover of the album Werk 80 II, which was also released in 2008, by the German dark metal band Atrocity . In 2009 she danced at the Eurovision Song Contest for the German contribution by Alex Swings Oscar Sings! (Miss Kiss Kiss Bang) as "Miss Kiss" at the finals in Moscow .

Von Teese had her first role in a television series in 2011 in the episode Nights of Burlesque (A Kiss Before Frying) of the eleventh season of CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators as the seductively dangerous Ellen 'Rita von Squeeze' Whitebridge .

Von Teese has shown another facet of her work regularly on the website of Jim Weathers , a bondage producer known in the United States .

In February 2018, a self-titled album was released in which she sings songs that Sébastien Tellier wrote for her.

Private life

On December 3, 2005, she married the musician Marilyn Manson , with whom she had been dating since 1999, but filed for divorce on December 29, 2006. She has been in a relationship with Disney media designer Adam Rajcevich since 2014.

Your penchant for vintage cars made Teese for professional sideline and acts with them.

Others

She told the magazine “ GQ ”: “I think it's funny that I am considered a fashion icon when it's my job to take off my clothes.” She interprets herself as a reincarnation of the 1940s: “My shows are an homage to the adored glamor girl. "

Filmography (selection)

  • 1995: Romancing Sara
  • 1998: Matter of Trust
  • 1999: Pin-Ups 2
  • 2000: Decadence
  • 2001: Slick City: The Adventures of Lela Devin
  • 2001: Tickle Party: Volume 2
  • 2002: Bound in Stockings
  • 2002: Naked and Helpless
  • 2004: Blooming Dahlia (short film)
  • 2005: The Death of Salvador Dali (short film)
  • 2006: Saint Francis
  • 2010: RuPaul's Drag Race (reality show, season 2, episode 2)
  • 2011: CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , TV series, season 11, episode 12)
  • 2013: Up in the Air (music film Thirty Seconds to Mars )
  • 2018: The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (Season 1, Episode 4)

literature

  • Dita von Teese: The Art of Burlesque - The Art of Fetish . 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89602-752-8 (Original title: Burlesque and the art of Teese, Regan Books, New York NY 2004, ISBN 0-06-059167-6 . Translated by Madeleine Lampe).
  • Midori, Craig Morey : The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage . Greenery Press, 2001, ISBN 1-890159-38-7 (Dita von Teese as Shibari model).
  • Peter W. Czernich: Dita - Fetish Goddess . Marquis Edition, Solingen 2002, ISBN 3-934237-06-1 .
  • Hannes Ross and Michael Streck: Dita Von Teese, Vamp & Snow White . In: Stern . No. 25 , 2006, ISSN  0039-1239 , p. 148-153 .

Web links

Commons : Dita Von Teese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official twitter account . Retrieved October 17, 2012
  2. ↑ Dita Von Teese Makes a Splash ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 17, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / yerevanmagazine.com
  3. ↑ "Dita Von Teese: Call her old-fashioned" Interview with Dita Von Teese (English)
  4. ↑ Dita Von Teese in the Internet Adult Film Database (English)
  5. ↑ Dita was a real Bedroom Teese , The Sun on July 27, 2009, accessed April 1, 2012
  6. ↑ The secret photos of Dita von Teese , Bild.de on July 28, 2009, accessed on April 1, 2012
  7. ↑ A pin-up for the opera ball: Dita von Teese
  8. ↑ Image : Dita von Teese strips for Germany at the Grand Prix . April 29, 2009
  9. ↑ Mariano Glas: CSI: Dita Von Teese on a visit. Serienjunkies.de , September 29, 2010, accessed November 25, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Vladislav Tinchev: CSI: A Kiss Before Frying - Review. Serienjunkies.de, January 21, 2011, accessed November 25, 2011 .
  11. ^ Electro-Lounge-Pop, created with Sébastien Tellier. Musikexpress.de, February 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ Focus Online: shock rocker Manson left by wife
  13. ↑ Ralf Niemczyk: Burlesque: Dita Von Teese collects classic US cars. In: welt.de . February 9, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Dita von Teese on style and striptease
personal data
SURNAME From Teese, Dita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sweet, Heather Renée (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dancer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester (Michigan)