Helmut Günther (Author)

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Helmut Günther (born August 4, 1911 in Michelfeld ( Schwäbisch Hall ), † February 17, 1983 Stuttgart ) was a German dance journalist.

Life

Günther studied history, German, English, comparative linguistics and philosophy in Tübingen and Bristol. He then worked as a teacher and later as a teacher in Neckarsulm and Stuttgart. Günther had come to folk dance as a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth , and later also to social and tournament dance . He also took ballet lessons at Albert Burger's school in Stuttgart. He published first on ballroom dancing , then increasingly on jazz dance and non-western dance cultures. His numerous publications in specialist journals, in the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Die Zeit and on the radio also include his research on Albert Burger's collaboration with Oskar Schlemmer at the Triadic Ballet . At times he taught dance history at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart . Helmut Günther's estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne. Business IT specialist Oliver Günther is Helmut Günther's oldest son.

Works

  • (with Helmut Schäfer): From shaman dance to rumba . The history of ballroom dancing . Ifland, Stuttgart 1959, 3rd edition 1993.
  • Basic phenomena and concepts of African and Afro-American dance. Universal-Edition, Graz 1969, 3rd edition 1977.
  • Dance lessons in Germany. A cultural sociological study . German Federal Association of Dance, Remscheid 1970, 2nd unchanged. 1991 edition.
  • (with Hubert Haag): From rock'n roll to soul. The modern pop dances from 1954 to 1976 . Hepp, Ostfildern-Nellingen 1976.
  • Jazz dance. History, theory, practice . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1980, 4th edition 1990. - Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 3rd edition 1984.
  • The dances and rites of the African Americans . Dance Motion Publishing House, Bonn 1982.
  • (with Horst Koegler , ed.): Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 3-150-10328-2

literature

  • Horst Koegler, Helmut Günther (ed.): Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 191.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung v. July 6, 1963; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. November 14, 1964; Stuttgarter Zeitung v. July 9, 1977; Stuttgarter Zeitung v. Jan. 14, 1978 et al.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dance journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Michelfeld ( Schwäbisch Hall )
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1983
Place of death Stuttgart