Ilse Meudtner

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Ilse Meudtner 1940

Ilse Meudtner (born November 1, 1912 in Berlin ; † 1990 in Madrid ) was a German swimming athlete , dancer , choreographer and journalist .

The confectioner's daughter from Neukölln took part in the 1928 Summer Olympics and took fourth place in artificial jumping . From 1929 she received her dance training from Berthe Trümpy and Vera Skoronel , in whose chamber dance group she participated.

In 1932 she took part in a tour of America with Harald Kreutzberg's dance group , which led to New York , New Orleans , Chicago and Hollywood . In addition to being a dancer, she also appeared as a diver.

Back in Germany she came to the Berlin State Opera via Darmstadt and Essen in 1934 . From 1934 to 1940 she was the first solo dancer here. Here she created roles in Lizzie Maudrik's ballets Die Barberina (1935) and Joan von Zarissa (1940). In addition, she organized her own dance evenings and tours. She also worked in the films Daphne and the Diplomat (1937) and In the Evening on the Heath (1941). During the war she went on guest tours and danced in front of officers and fellow soldiers.

After the war ended, she married Van Putten, a Dutchman, took Dutch citizenship and toured Europe. She studied Spanish dance for a year in the dance schools in Madrid and Seville and made a guest appearance in Germany in 1949 with a Spanish dance program. From 1951 to 1954 she was a solo dancer and ballet master at the Komische Oper Berlin . There she choreographed de Fallas Der Dreispitz , Ravel's Pavane on the Death of an Infanta and Boléro , Tscherepnin's The Enchanted Bird and Spies ' Der Stralsund Fischzug .

In 1955, an injury that she sustained while doing wooden shoe dancing in Zar and Zimmermann led to the end of her dance career. In 1958 she made a final guest appearance in her birthplace Neukölln in the Saalbau . Together with the guitarist Siegfried Behrend she performed as a reciter for some time . In 1964 she settled in Madrid and has lived as a journalist ever since. She reported several times for Die Zeit about the country and the people in Spain.

Publications

  • 1944: The world of my dances . Detmold, Hammann
  • 1960: dance without a stage . Stuttgart, Günther
  • 1990: ... you could still dance . Memories. Edited by Dietrich Steinbeck Berlin, Edition Hentrich

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  1. ↑ Ilse Meudtner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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SURNAME Meudtner, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German water sports enthusiast, dancer, choreographer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1990
Place of death Madrid