Lisa Czóbel
Lisa Czóbel (born April 2, 1906 in Bamberg ; † February 7, 1992 in Hamburg ) was a German expressive dancer and choreographer who enjoyed international fame.
Career
Lisa Czóbel was born in Bamberg in 1906 as the daughter of Béla Czóbel and his wife Isolde , née Daig. Her father was a Hungarian Expressionist and Fauvist artist of Jewish descent and her mother a German-Russian painter and textile designer . As a result of the artistic environment at home, she later decided to pursue a career as an artist. Her youth were overshadowed by the First World War .
During the summer months in the 1920s, her mother worked in the artists' colony in Würzburg , which was founded by the German painter Gertraud Rostosky at the time. Lisa Czóbel performed at the celebration of the 60th birthday of the German landscape painter Otto Modersohn . In his honor she danced the Kulibajadere from Max Dauthendey's Winged Earth in front of him.
From 1926 to 1928 she trained in dance at the Trümpy School in Berlin . Then she performed between 1928 and 1929 with the Skoronel group in Paris with Olga Preobrajenska and Ljubov Egorova. From 1930 she had her own chamber dance evenings . She appeared as a solo dancer at the Folkwang dance stage in Essen . During this time she played the role of a young girl in 1932 The Green Table by Kurt Jooss . When the Essen Opera House dissolved its ballet company , Jooss took it over and continued it under the name ballets Jooss . As a member, Czóbel took part in the 1933/34 tour . The world economic crisis overshadowed the time. Furthermore, hostilities against the Jews increased. In this context, Jooss emigrated to Great Britain in 1933 because he refused to continue working in the German Reich without his Jewish employees . From 1934 to 1940 he and his company ran a dance school at the reform pedagogical Dartington Hall School in Devon in southern England . He recently took on British citizenship. Meanwhile, Czóbel performed as a solo dancer on the municipal stages in Florence ( Italy ) from 1934 to 1938 . In 1939 she returned to the German Reich and tried to get an engagement at the Berlin State Opera . However, as a so-called half-Jew, she was denied this. As a result, she emigrated to Switzerland . In the following years she worked as a dancer at the Corso-Theater in Zurich and later in the group of Trudi Schoop. During the Second World War she performed as a solo dancer at the Stadttheater Bern from 1940 to 1944 under the direction of Hilde Baumann. After the war she went on tour as a member of the Schoop troupe . She performed in the Netherlands , Belgium and eighty cities in the United States . From 1947 to 1948 she worked as a solo dancer at the Stadttheater Basel under the direction of Heinz Rosen. Czóbel returned to Germany in 1948 and worked in Heidelberg under the direction of the ballet master Karl Bergeest, her future husband. From 1951 to 1956 she worked in Cologne . In addition, she performed on numerous tours with her dance partner Alexander von Swaine between 1950 and 1965 . In this context, in 1954, they toured India , Pakistan , Ceylon , Indonesia , Singapore and Hong Kong with the German conductor and pianist Hartmut Klug , and later also through Syria , Lebanon and Iran . Czóbel's last engagement was with Ted Shawn in the United States.
Their performances on the stage testified to the expressiveness of the dance, imagination and willingness to experiment.
Her estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .
literature
- Andreas Kotte, Simone Gojan: Theater Lexikon der Schweiz, Chronos Verlag Zürich, 2005, Volume 1, p. 426
Web links
- Page about Lisa Czobel at the German Dance Archive Cologne.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Post-celebration of Otto Modersohn's 60th birthday (1925) ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dauthendey.de
- ^ Kurt Jooss , In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv. 29/1979, July 9, 1979, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- ↑ Alexander von Swaine and Lisa Czóbel - Europe's foremost celebrated dance duo ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sk-kultur.de
- ↑ Alexander von Swaine and Lisa Czóbel dance “Caprichos nach Goya” (1950s) ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , sk-kultur.de
- ↑ Lisa Czóbel on the website of ferdilou.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Page on Lisa Czobel at the German Dance Archive Cologne , accessed August 1, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czóbel, Lisa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German expression dancer and choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamberg , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1992 |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Germany |