Katja Wulff

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Katja Wulff, modern drawing based on old photos

Katja Wulff (also Käthe Wulff; born August 31, 1890 in Hamburg ; † June 11, 1992 in Basel ) was a German-Swiss expressive dancer and choreographer .

Life

Katja Wulff's (1890–1992) home and classroom is an expressive dancer, choreographer and dance teacher at Augustinergasse 3, Münsterhügel in Basel-Stadt.
Katja Wulff's home and classroom

Katja Wulff trained as a drawing and gymnastics teacher in Hamburg and taught from 1912 to 1915. From 1913/1914 she took dance lessons with Gertrud Falke. In 1914 she attended a summer course with the dance theorist and expression dancer Rudolf von Laban on Monte Verità . In 1916 she moved to Zurich, where she was a dance pedagogue student with Laban and Mary Wigman for three years . In 1918 she received a diploma for pedagogy in dance gymnastics and art dance and founded a school for eurythmy together with Suzanne Perrottet . After a short time, Wulff left Zurich and worked as a dance teacher on the Amalfi coast and on Capri for three years .

In 1923 Katja Wulff founded a school for expressive dance in Basel and from 1926 headed the dance group Tanzstudio Wulff with Mariette von Meyenburg as choreographer. The group worked with Paul Sacher , Max Bill , Max Sulzbacher and Meret Oppenheim , among others . Wulff had contacts with the Dadaists around Hans Arp and Sophie Täuber and made friends with Rudolf Jakob Humm . From 1928 to 1930 she performed at the dancers' congresses in Germany, in 1928 at the Swiss Exhibition for Women's Labor in Bern and in 1939 at the National Exhibition in Zurich .

Shortly before the start of the Second World War in 1939, she married the Basel dancer, actor and director Charles Ferdinand Vaucher, and in 1947 they divorced. It had already been naturalized in Basel in 1936. Katja Wulff spent the last years of her life tied to bed before she died at the age of 102 in the Felix Platter Hospital in Basel .

The dancer Mary Delpy said of her: “Katja was always very discreetly dressed and, I would like to say, had an almost regal gait - straight back, perfect posture. She was a tall, beautiful woman. Until she was over 90 she gave lessons, trained schoolgirls and sat next to when former schoolgirls gave lessons, got involved and said something about it. She was a really great woman. "

A plaque commemorates her at Augustinergasse 3 on Basel's Minster Hill : "This is where Katja Wulff, dancer and dance teacher, lived and taught."

Her estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne.

literature

  • Vera Isler: Look at us: portraits of people over eighty. Birkhäuser, Basel 1986, ISBN 3-0348-6530-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Frank-Manuel Peter : "If you are inclined to come ..." Käthe (Katja) Wulff on her 100th birthday. In: Tanzdrama , Magazin. No. 12, 3rd quarter 1990, pp. 18-22; detailed curriculum vitae p. 20.
  • Ursula Pellaton: Katja Wulff. In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz. Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, p. 2123.
  • Ursula Pellaton: Wulff, Katja. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 19th August 2013 .
  • Bettina witness: Katja Wulff. Edited by IG Tanz Basel. Zwischen-Raum-Verlag, Basel 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Wulff. (No longer available online.) In: ticinarte.ch. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ticinarte.ch
personal data
SURNAME Wulff, Katja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wulff, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss expressive dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1992
Place of death Basel