Lotte Goslar

Lotte Goslar (born February 27, 1907 in Dresden , † October 16, 1997 in Great Barrington , Massachusetts , USA ) was a German-American dancer.

She came from a banking family and started working towards a career as a dancer at an early age. She took lessons from Mary Wigman and Gret Palucca . She made her debut in Berlin. Soon she developed her own style of expressive dance . In 1933 she left Germany and joined Erika Mann's cabaret Die Pfeffermühle .

She toured Europe with the cabaret Die Pfeffermühle and enjoyed success at the Free Theater ( Osvobozené divadlo ) in Prague. She traveled with the group to the USA in late autumn 1936 in order to make a new beginning (albeit in vain) with the Peppermill in early 1937 . She stayed there in exile out of disgust for the National Socialists.

Goslar performed in nightclubs and went to Hollywood in 1943, where she founded her own troupe, with which she undertook many extensive tours through the USA and later to Europe. Since the late 1970s she has performed repeatedly in Germany.

As a choreographer , she developed a mixture of dance and pantomime. Her titles include For Humans Only (1954) and Clowns and Other Fools (1966). She also worked as a dance teacher and taught Marilyn Monroe and Gower Champion , among others .

She bequeathed her artistic legacy to the German Dance Archive in Cologne and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library.

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SURNAME	Goslar, Lotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American dancer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1997
Place of death	Great Barrington , Massachusetts , USA