Gert Weigelt

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Gert Weigelt (born July 27, 1943 in Raeren near Eupen ) is a German photographer .

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Gert Weigelt began training as a classical stage dancer . He studied with Tatjana Gsovsky in Berlin and with Birger Bartholin and Vera Volkova in Copenhagen. From 1967 to 1970 he was engaged with the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm, 1970–1972 with the Swedish Cullberg Ballet and 1972–1975 with the Nederlands Dans Theater . During this time he worked with numerous important choreographers such as Hans van Manen , Jerome Robbins , Jiří Kylián , Kurt Jooss , Glen Tetley and Birgit Cullberg .

After finishing his dance career, Weigelt studied artistic photography at the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design in Cologne . He quickly established himself as one of the most important German dance photographers, as a chronicler he has been following choreographers such as Pina Bausch , Hans van Manen , Maurice Béjart , Susanne Linke , William Forsythe , Gerhard Bohner and Martin Schläpfer since the mid-1970s . His pictures contributed to the journalistic breakthrough of German dance theater in the 70s and 80s , they appeared in u. a. in the dance magazines Das Tanzarchiv , Ballett International / tanz , Dance Magazine , in the ballet yearbooks of Friedrich Verlag and in numerous daily newspapers.

Since 1992 Gert Weigelt has also developed six short dance videos for television (the Second German Television and the Dutch television station NOS ). Some of them were awarded at festivals. In 1991 his first ballet calendar, Dance Vision , was published by te Neues . As a result, te Neues produced pas de deux and ballet gala in parallel . From 1997 the brochure calendar Dance established itself on the market, which is still distributed worldwide today. In 2013 his calendar Ballett am Rhein was published for the first time by Dumont Kalenderverlag . Over 150 of his works were published as postcards (at Art Unlimited and Gebr. König Postkartenverlag). Since 2003 Gert Weigelt has had his own column in the online dance magazine www.tanznetz.de. Horst Koegler called him the “classicist among dance photographers”.

In 2014, Weigelt received the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany in the communication design category for a series of posters for the Ballett am Rhein , together with graphic designers Nicolas Markwald and Nina Neusitzer. The Weigelt, Neusitzer & Markwald team has also repeatedly received the coveted Red Dot Award for other joint projects for the Ballett am Rhein : Communication Design, the German Prize for Communication Design, which is awarded annually by the Design Center NRW.

For his services to dance, Gert Weigelt was awarded the German Dance Prize on October 19, 2019 at a gala in the Aalto Theater in Essen . The laudation was given by Thomas Thorausch from the German Dance Archive in Cologne. "Weigelt's works are not just documents of dance, they are an art in their own right. In them external form and internal movement are revealed. They are a celebration of movement and the body. They are a celebration of dance that continually offers new perspectives, lets the hidden and undiscovered become visible to us. At the moment of the picture, the stage, the photographer and the camera seem to have become one in order to capture the soul of the dance - for a moment, "is an excerpt from the jury's statement. Weigelt is the first dance photographer to receive the German Dance Prize.

In addition to his journalistic work, Weigelt also devotes himself to portraits - and staged body photography. In contrast to stage photography , for which the main parameters such as action and light are given, his studio creates his own, autonomous body worlds.

“The actual, relatively short, deadline for taking photos is preceded by a longer period of reflection. (Not only) for the dancer I have to prepare an individual staging concept so that the joint work does not become a coincidence. It may be a little like choreography: a choreographer mostly follows his own disposition to move, his inner 'movement pattern' "

- Gert Weigelt

“Weigelt attaches great importance to physicality and plasticity, which are strictly artificially composed. He combines the shape of the body with the pose that inspires him. His aesthetic staging, which leaves nothing to chance, gives rise to unusual ways of seeing the body. "

- Christiane Theobald

Gert Weigelt has lived and worked in Cologne since 1975. He is married to the dancer and training director for classical dance Sighilt Pahl.

Special exhibitions

  • 1983 Ton Peek Gallery, Utrecht
  • 1984 “Losing head, gaining body”, BARBAR Gallery, Stockholm
  • 1984 “Faces, Traces and Hanging Graces”, Ton Peek Gallery, Utrecht
  • 1986 “Black Stockings and other Minor Obsessions”, Ton Peek Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 1988 “The flesh and the strength and the glory”, Fotoforum, Bremen
  • 1988 “men-friendly-women-friendly”, Anderes Ufer, Berlin
  • 1989 Harbourfront, Toronto (with the support of the Goethe-Institut )
  • 1990 “The Specter of Freedom - Theatrical Photographs”, Galerie am Prater, Berlin
  • 1992 “Stay a while! You are so pretty! Moments in Dance ”, Galerie Transart, Cologne
  • 1993 “Stay a while! You are so pretty! Moments in Dance ”, Dansens Hus, Stockholm
  • 1994 "Gerhard Bohner Choreographer & Taenzer - Taenzer & Photographer Gert Weigelt", Academy of the Arts , Berlin
  • 1994 "Tanzbilanz", National Theater Mannheim
  • 1995 "pictures of (e) motion", Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 1995 "Gert Weigelt - Portraitist", pH129, Cologne
  • 1996 "Weigelt on Bausch", University Arts Museum, Berkeley (with the support of the Goethe Institute)
  • 1997 “In Bausch & Bilder”: Gert Weigelt photographs the Tanztheater Wuppertal , German Dance Archive Cologne
  • 1998 “Optique Dansante”, Internationale Photoszene, Cologne
  • 2002 "Body & Soul", Dans Museet, Stockholm
  • 2003 "Pina Bausch", St. Petersburg (Goethe Institute / German Dance Archive Cologne)
  • 2004 “Ballet Basel Portraits”, Museum Tinguely , Basel
  • 2005 "Distanzen - Siegfried Enkelmann / Gert Weigelt", German Dance Archive Cologne
  • 2008 “Absolut Pina”, Dans Museet, Stockholm
  • 2009 “Absolut Pina”, Le Transfrontalier 2009, Luxembourg
  • 2009 “Absolut Pina”, Teatermuseet i Hofteatret, Copenhagen
  • 2010 "Absolut Pina", Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , Santiago de Chile (with the support of the Goethe Institute)
  • 2010 "Absolut Pina", China Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (with the support of the Goethe Institute)
  • 2011 “96 feet, one company”, Theater Duisburg
  • 2014 "Design on Stage - Winners Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2014", Red Dot Design Museum, Essen
  • 2018 "Gert Weigelt. Autopsy in black and white ”, Dance Museum of the German Dance Archive Cologne

Video work

Amuse Œil - Pinatz and other little things , direction and choreography: Gert Weigelt

  • Part 1: Arabesque - an autopsy. Reverence to Hans van Manen , with Antoinette Goodfellow - Bronislav Roznos, music: JSBach , camera: Peter Lataster, editing: Peter Rump
  • Part 2: Sacre Clip. Reverence to Mats Ek , with Nadja Saidakova - José Katxua, music: Igor Stravinsky , camera: Bernhard Auth, editing: Giesbert Boeckem
  • Part 3: Impressing Uncle Bill. Reverenz to William Forsythe , with Simona Noja , music: Johann Sebastian Bach, camera: Bernhard Auth, editing: Giesbert Boeckem
  • Part 4: Pinatz. References to Pina Bausch , with Nadja Saidakova - José Katxua, music: Nino Rota , camera: Joachim Baus, editing: Giesbert Boeckem
  • Part 5: UnDeuxTrois, - Triste , with Sandy Delasalle - Olivier Lucea, music: Jean Sibelius , camera: Christian Hahn, editing: Giesbert Boeckem
  • Part 6: Spelling BALLERINA (spelling BALLERINA) , with Nadja Saidakova, music: Johann Sebastian Bach, camera: Peter Lataster, editing: Giesbert Boeckem

Publications

  • Norbert Servos (author), Hedwig Müller (author), Gert Weigelt (photographer): Pina Bausch - Wuppertaler Tanztheater. From spring offering to Kontakthof . Ballett-Bühnen-Verlag Rolf Garske, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-922224-01-6 .
  • Norbert Servos (author), Gert Weigelt (photographer): Pina Bausch - Wuppertal Dance Theater or the Art of Training a Goldfish: Excursions into Dance . Ballett-Bühnen-Verlag, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-922224-09-1 .
  • Jochen Schmidt (author), Gert Weigelt (photographer): Dance theater in Germany . Propylaea, 1992, ISBN 3-549-05206-5 .
  • Gert Weigelt: Gerhard Bohner , choreographer and dancer. Dancer and photographer, Gert Weigelt . Catalog for the exhibition in the foyer of the theater of the city of Gütersloh from December 11, 1993 to February 5, 1994 and in Berlin, Akademie der Künste from May 15. - June 12, 1994. Verlag Klaus Bittner, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-926397-06-3 .
  • Gert Weigelt, portraitist . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the rooms of the architecture office pH 129, Przygoda & Hoppenhaus, Cologne, October 27 to November 1, 1995. Verlag Klaus Bittner, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-926397-07-1 .
  • Gert Weigelt: Body & Soul . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name at Dans Museet Stockholm from May 31 to August 25, 2002. Verlag Klaus Bittner, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-926397-08-X .
  • Norbert Servos (author), Gert Weigelt (photographer): Pina Bausch: Tanztheater . K. Kieser Verlag; Munich 2003 ff, ISBN 3-935456-27-1 .
  • Norbert Servos (author), Gert Weigelt (photographer): Pina Bausch. Dance Theater . K. Kieser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-935456-22-7 .
  • Norbert Servos (author), Gert Weigelt (photographer): Pina Bausch: Tanztheater . K. Kieser Verlag; 3rd expanded and updated edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-935456-27-2 .
  • Gert Weigelt: Absolutely Pina. Pina Bausch's dance theater in Wuppertal . Catalog for the photo exhibition at Dans Museet Stockholm 11 June to 31 August 2008.
  • Gert Weigelt: Absolutely Pina. Pina Bausch's dance theater in Wuppertal . Catalog for the exhibition in Beijing 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Koegler in " Gert Weigelt exclusively at tanznetz.de ", foreword to weigelt.web
  2. ↑ http://www.deutschertanzpreis.de/preisverleihung/preistraeger/#c68
  3. ↑ Gert Weigelt in the foreword to 101 dancer portraits on www.tanznetz.de
  4. ^ In the foreword to the catalog "Body & Soul", Verlag Klaus Bittner, Cologne 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Weigelt, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Raeren near Eupen