Gisela Walther

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Gisela Walther , also Gisela Hasler and Gisela Walther-Hasler (* March 27, 1935 - May 15, 2018 ) was a German choreographer and ballet director .

Life

Gisela Walther was a graduate of the Dresden Palucca School and from 1954 a dancer at the German State Opera Berlin . In 1956 she developed her first choreography at the Karl-Marx-Stadt opera house , which by 1985 had grown to over 1,500 dances. In 1960 she moved to the Musical Comedy Leipzig , where she worked as a ballet master and choreographer. In 1964 Gisela Walther first appeared as a guest at the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin , to which she was a permanent choreographer, ballet master and ballet director from 1965 to 1990. It was here that she achieved fame when she had a row of 34 dancers come down the grand staircase for the opening of the new Friedrichstadt-Palast and throw their long legs into the air to the music on the stage. She also worked several times for film and television.

Gisela Walther, who was married to the director Joachim Hasler , died of cancer in May 2018 at the age of 83 and found her final resting place with her husband in the resurrection cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Filmography (choreography)

Awards

  • 1974: BZ Critics' Prize for the best choreographic achievement: For the revues Melodie der Welt and Expo 74 in Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin
  • 1977: National Prize of the GDR III. Class for art and literature: As director of the ballet ensemble of the Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin
  • 1984: Goethe Prize of the City of Berlin for achievements in the field of culture, art and literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Walther is dead. In: Superillu from May 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ Private obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung from 16./17. June 2018
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 28, 1974, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Neue Zeit of October 8, 1977, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 27, 1984, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasler, Gisela; Walther-Hasler, Gisela (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer and ballet director
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1935
DATE OF DEATH 15th May 2018