Katharina Lanner

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Katharina Lanner, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1861

Katharina Josepha Lanner , also Kathi Lanner or Katti Lanner (born September 14, 1829 in Vienna , † November 15, 1908 in London ) was an Austrian dancer and ballet master .

Life

The daughter of the composer Joseph Lanner and his wife Franziska geb. Jahns studied at the school of the Vienna Court Opera and made his debut in 1845 at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Antonio Guerra's Angelica . In 1847 she had her first great success as Fenella in the opera Die Stumme von Portici . She also danced other leading roles as Myrtha in Giselle (1852) and in the ballets Die gewandelten Frauen (1853) by Paul Taglioni and Der Toreador (1854) by Antoine Bournonville.

After the death of her mother in 1855, Katharina Lanner decided to leave Vienna. As early as 1856 she achieved a triumphant success in Berlin in the title role of Giselle . Further stations in her career were Dresden and Munich. Eventually she was hired as a ballerina and ballet master at the Hamburg City Theater. There she directed the choreography of ten ballets, including Uriella, the Demon of the Night (1862), The Rose of Seville (1862) and Asmodeus or The Son of the Devil on a Journey (1863).

After four years she left Hamburg and went on tour to Scandinavia and Russia, then to Bordeaux and Lisbon. In 1872 she made a guest appearance in New York, where she founded a children's ballet the following year. In 1875 she moved to London, where she headed the National Training School of Dancing from 1876 . Guest performances have taken her to Belgium, Baden-Baden, Paris, Copenhagen and America again. In London she directed all ballet productions at the Drury Lane Theater . After the opening of the Empire Theater in Leicester Square , she became a ballet master there in 1887. She held this office until 1897 and was still active afterwards. She choreographed 33 ballets here and made London a center of ballet, particularly through the appearance of the ballerina Adeline Genée .

Katti Lanner was married to the dance master Johann Baptist Alfred Karl Viktor Geraldini from 1868 until the divorce. Her daughters were Katharina, Albertine and Sophie, who later became a respected harpist.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck, Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women. Dietz, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-8012-0276-3 , p. 198.

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personal data
SURNAME Lanner, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lanner, Katti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British dancer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1908
Place of death London