Emmy Sauerbeck
Emmy Sauerbeck (born December 31, 1894 in London ; † 1974 ) was a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.
Born in London in 1894 as the child of German emigrants, she studied violin and dance in Zurich from 1914 , notably with Rudolf von Laban . She married the painter Rudolf Junghans - the marriage was later divorced - and worked as a rhythm teacher in Bern .
There she founded the "School for Movement" in 1922, a dance school with whose dance group she a. a. performed with great success at the Stadttheater Bern . After Sauerbeck's death in 1974, her student Ursula Blatter-Aeberhard continued the school. It ceased operations at the end of June 2012.
The estate of Emmy Sauerbeck is kept in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .
literature
- Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Central and East Europe. Central European Times Publishing Company, Zurich, 1935, p. 855.
swell
- Thomas Thorausch in Tanzdrama No. 39, December 1997, pp. 22-23; reproduced in: Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, Emmy Sauerbeck , accessed on June 30, 2012
- Marianne Mühlemann: "She was way ahead of her time" , Der Bund of June 30, 2012
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| SURNAME | Sauerbeck, Emmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dancer, choreographer and dance teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1974 |