Liselotte Koester

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Liselotte Köster (born May 3, 1911 in Berlin ; † September 19, 1987 there ) was a German dancer .

Life

Köster received her dance training from Tatjana and Victor Gsovsky . Since the 1928/29 season she appeared at the Berlin State Opera and belonged to the German Opera House from 1935/36 until the theater was closed in 1944 . From 1945 to 1960 she was again a solo dancer at the Städtische Oper Berlin , after which she appeared several times as a guest ballerina.

Köster created numerous character roles, including Rudolf Kölling's Der Stralauer Fischzug and Die Gaunerstreich der Courasche (both 1936), Jens Keith's Josephs Legende (1946), Janine Charrats Abraxas (1949), G. Blanks Lysistrata (1951) and Tatjana Gsovsky's Hamlet (1953) .

She was married to the dancer Jockel Stahl (1911–1957), with whom she performed on tours at numerous matinees and solo dance evenings at home and abroad. Several times the two were seen in feature films with spirited dance interludes.

Grave of Liselotte Koester in the cemetery Heerstrasse in Berlin-Westend

Liselotte Köster died in Berlin in September 1987 at the age of 76. She was buried next to her husband Jockel Stahl in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in the Charlottenburg district in what is now Berlin-Westend (grave location: 18-L-4).

Liselotte Köster's estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . Pp. 489, 495.
personal data
SURNAME Koster, Liselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1987
Place of death Berlin