Hertha Feist

Hertha Feist (born June 18, 1896 in Berlin ; † July 9, 1990 in Hanover ) was a German dancer and choreographer .

After her training as a Mensendieck teacher, she studied gymnastics with Rudolf Bode and dance with Olga Desmond and Rudolf von Laban . Feist belonged to Laban's dance group, became his assistant in 1922 and opened a school for dance and gymnastics in Berlin-Halensee in 1923 , where she taught in terms of Laban's body-emphasizing movement theory.

In 1925 she also appeared as a soloist with the Berlin movement choirs Laban , which she directed , for example in Agamemnon's death , and in 1926 together with her master and the Berlin Laban group Hertha Feist in his Don Juan, and in 1926 she organized her first dance evening. She created her own “dance poems”, of which Die Berufung became the best known in 1928 , and directed her own chamber dance group Hertha Feist , which also participated in the theater and in film. For example, in 1926 she appeared in costumes by Lotte Pritzel and to the music of Klaus Pringsheim in Anja and Esther by Klaus Mann and was in a film that premiered in 1929 by the Novembergruppe in the Gloria Palast cinema on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm and at the same time in New York and Paris Hands (Stella F. Simon / Miklos Bandy). With the support of Carl Diem , Hertha Feist also took over the dance education of sports students at the German University for Physical Education in Berlin in 1924 . At the university, her most important concern was the integration of dance into sports studies. Hertha Feist last taught at the Volkshochschule Hannover from 1952 to 1965.

Her students in the 1920s included Aurel von Milloss , later known as a choreographer , who in 1927 with her student group a. a. The Puppenfee rehearsed, and in 1922 with Laban in Gleschendorf the later solo dancers Laura Oesterreich and Lucie Kieselhausen . Her estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .

Awards

• Honorary member of the German Academy of Dance

literature

• Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 150.
• Frank-Manuel Peter : Hertha Feist. Elegant elegance and melancholy clouds. Obituary for the Berlin lab teacher. In: dance drama. No. 13, 4th quarter 1990, pp. 34-37.

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