Lola Rogge

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Lola Rogge (born March 20, 1908 in Altona ; † January 13, 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German dancer , choreographer and teacher .

Life and accomplishments

In 1925 she began dance training at the Hamburg dance school Rudolf von Labans , founded in 1922 and directed by Albrecht Knust . In 1927 she passed her exams here and also became Knust's assistant. In the same year she founded a movement choir called the “Association for the Care of the Laban Movement Theory”, which later became the “Altona Laban School Lola Rogge”.

Rogge danced in Laban's choreographies and in 1928 also founded a children's movement choir. In 1931 her first major school work, The Pied Piper of Hameln, was performed. In the same year she married her musical colleague Hans Meyer.

Memorial inside
the women's garden (since 2016)

In 1932 she directed Albert Talhoff's Totenmal at a performance in the trade union building, in 1933 at the world premiere of Thyll , based on the novel Legende vom Ulenspiegel by the Belgian poet Charles de Coster as a full-length dance play in the Altona Theater .

In 1934 she took over the management of the Hamburg Laban School as the successor to Knust. In 1935 the world premiere of Die Amazons followed in the Staatliches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, in 1939 the world premiere of Die Mädcheninsel . At the same time, Rogge worked as a choreographer at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus until 1959.

Since then, thousands of children, young people and adults have attended the Lola Rogge School. There are currently 752 lay students attending 78 different dance courses. In 1950 she brought out her scenic oratorio Vita Nostra , and in 1954 the Lübeck Dance of Death in the Marienkirche in Lübeck.

In 1977 Lola Rogge handed over the management of the school to her daughter Christiane Meyer-Rogge. Her younger daughter Andrea Meyer-Rogge also became a dance teacher. Since then, 678 vocational school students have successfully passed their state exams.

Lola Rogge was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. Her grave is in a stone-free lawn at the exit of the women's garden there , but a memorial plaque has been put up for her.

Since 2004, more than 100 people in educational professions have completed the 1-year advanced training course at the Lola Rogge School "T-an-S - Dance in Schools" with a certificate.

With 5 choreographies in the Michaeliskirche, u. a. for the television service "Bread for the World" in 2003, for the dance opening of the International Garden Show 2013 in Hamburg or for the "Peace Fair" in Hamburg's Michel in 2014, the Lola Rogge School with its vocational students under the artistic direction of Christiane Meyer-Rogge Turner, going beyond the pure school framework, also appeared in public.

Awards

In 1983 she received the Biermann Ratjen Medal .

Since 2013 there has also been Lola-Rogge-Platz in Hamburg's Hafencity in her honor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Meyer-Rogge-Turner
  2. ↑ Christian Hanke: Hamburg street names tell a story. 5th edition Hamburg 2014, p. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Rogge, Lola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, choreographer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1990
Place of death Hamburg