Lilo Gruber

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Lilo Gruber (born January 3, 1915 , † January 8, 1992 ) was a German ballet dancer , choreographer and ballet director.

Life

At the age of five, Lilo Gruber (also Lieselotte Gruber and Lieselotte Praski-Gruber) received ballet lessons from Tankred Rohrmoser and then attended Mary Zimmermann's ballet school in Berlin , which she graduated from in 1932 at the age of 17. In Copenhagen she dealt with the dance ideas of the ballet master August Bournonville , before traveling across Europe with the ballet Dorian . It turned out that she would prefer the pedagogical for the future . As early as 1937 she passed the examination as a ballet master in order to work at the City Theater in Stettin . From 1938 to 1940 she had an engagement at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. She consolidated her pedagogical experience at the Schulz-Dornburg Opera Studio , where she was trained by Marie Schulz-Dornburg and Mary Wigman . With this knowledge, she began her engagement at the Greifswald City Theater in 1944 , where she stayed until the end of the Second World War , to work at the theater in Plauen in 1947.

In 1948 Lilo Gruber started working for her former teacher Mary Wigman at the Wigman School in Leipzig and then became director of the ballet school of the municipal theaters. She was responsible for the dance support for the 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin in 1951. From 1953 to 1955 she took over the ballet of the opera house of the Städtische Theater Leipzig as ballet master and choreographer . When the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin reopened in 1955, she began her work as a ballet master and choreographer. In 1964 she was appointed ballet director until she was retired as chief choreographer and ballet director in 1971 due to a serious illness. In 1958 Lilo Gruber was appointed artistic director of the Berlin State Ballet School . From 1961 she was chairman of the artistic advisory board of the ballet school. In 1965 she became a full member of the GDR Academy of Arts in the performing arts section. Lilo Gruber has been used as a jury member in dance competitions several times. Her work was the focus of several documentaries. The Akademie der Künste has preserved life and work in its extensive archive, which the artist handed over to the house in 1975.

Lilo Gruber was married to the singer, actor and director Fred Praski .

theatre

choreography

Choreography in operas

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. Neue Zeit of January 7, 1959, p. 4
  2. Neues Deutschland, January 3, 1985, p. 4
  3. Berliner Zeitung of January 14, 1992, p. 12
  4. ^ Lilo Gruber in the archive database of the Akademie der Künste