Greta Wrage from Pustau

Portrait of a dancer
(Greta Wrage von Pustau)
Terracotta bust by Luis Rauschhuber , 1953

Greta Wrage von Pustau (born August 2, 1902 in Canton , Chinese Empire , † March 20, 1989 in Munich ) was a German dancer , ballet master and dance teacher.

Life

Greta von Pustau was the daughter of the Hamburg merchants Antonia and Alfred Julius Engelbrecht von Pustau (1868–?). In 1921 she married the landscape painter Klaus Wrage (1891–1984). The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

Greta Wrage von Pustau was a student of Rudolf von Laban around 1922 . In 1932 she took her final exam at the Folkwang School . From 1933 she ran her own (Laban) dance school in Nuremberg. Among other things, she danced to Laban's choreography as an animator for the choir contributions at the 1936 Summer Olympics . However, she obviously did not receive an award for this .

There is evidence of a matinee at her ballet school in the Deutsches Hof in Nuremberg in June 1960.

Wrage von Pustau's estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne . There is also a bust of her, created in 1953 by Luis Rauschhuber .

literature

Pustau, Greta von ; in: Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : artist island Sylt . Boyens, Heide 2005, pp. 44, 218 f. ISBN 978-3-804-21171-1

Web links

Literature by and about Greta Wrage von Pustau in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Laure Guilbert: Danser avec le IIIe Reich: les danseurs modern sous le nazisme . Editions Complexe, 2000, pp. 263/264, 3rd footnote. ISBN 978-2-870-27697-6
↑ Invitation to the matinee of the Greta Wrage ballet school from Pustau on June 26, 1960 on the website of Wolfgang Krautwig .
^ Estates and personal collections at the German Dance Archive Cologne , last accessed on November 1, 2018.
^ Portrait of `Wrage von Pustau, dancer ' , Luis Rauschhuber.

personal data
SURNAME	Wrage von Pustau, Greta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pustau, Greta von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dancer, ballet master and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd August 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Canton , Chinese Empire
DATE OF DEATH	March 20, 1989
Place of death	Munich

[1] Laure Guilbert: Danser avec le IIIe Reich: les danseurs modern sous le nazisme . Editions Complexe, 2000, pp. 263/264, 3rd footnote. ISBN 978-2-870-27697-6

[2] Invitation to the matinee of the Greta Wrage ballet school from Pustau on June 26, 1960 on the website of Wolfgang Krautwig .

[3] Estates and personal collections at the German Dance Archive Cologne , last accessed on November 1, 2018.

[4] Portrait of `Wrage von Pustau, dancer ' , Luis Rauschhuber.