Eugenie Platonovna Eduardova

Eugenie Eduardowa (1913)

Eugenie Platonowna Eduardova ( Russian Еугение Платоновна Едуардова , scientific. Transliteration Eugenie Platonovna Eduardova *  1882 in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire †, 10. December 1960 in New York , USA ; as Eugenie Eduardova or Eugenia Eduardova ) was a Russian dancer and dance teacher .

Life

Eugenie Eduardowa was trained at the Imperial Ballet School in Saint Petersburg. After graduating in 1901, she performed mainly as a demi-caractère ballerina at the Mariinsky Theater there until 1917 . Following a tour with the ballet company of Anna Pavlova , she moved in 1920 in Berlin and founded in the district of Schöneberg a prestigious ballet school. Her students included the dancers Alexander von Swaine , Marcel Luipart and Natascha Trofimowa , but also Leni Riefenstahl and the actor and director Ralph Lothar .

In 1921 she played a solo dancer in the silent film Irrende Seelen by Carl Froelich with Asta Nielsen , Walter Janssen , Lyda Salmonova and Alfred Abel .

With her husband, the dance writer Joseph Lewitan, Eugenie Eduardowa emigrated to Paris in 1938 and finally to New York in 1947.

literature

• Horst Koegler and Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-150-10328-2 , p. 137.

Web links

• Eugenie Platonowna Eduardova in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Eugenie Platonowna Eduardowa at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Selected portraits ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on berlin.de; accessed on January 15, 2016
2. ↑ Natascha Trofimowa in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible); Retrieved March 3, 2015
3. ↑ Horst Koegler and Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon , p. 459

Remarks

1. ↑ Both the first name Eugenie ( Reclams Ballettlexikon ) and Eugenia (DNB, IMDb, filmportal.de etc.) can be found in the sources . Here the first name Eugenie with reference to Reclam's ballet dictionary was preferred.