Marcel Luipart

Marcel Luipart , actually Marcel Fenchel (born September 8, 1912 in Mulhouse in Alsace, German Empire ; † October 23, 1989 in Vienna ) was a German dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.

Life

The Alsatian Luipart received his training in Berlin from the Russians in exile Eugenia Eduardowa , Nikolai Legat and Victor Gsovsky , all of whom were representatives of the so-called Petersburg School . In 1933 he made his debut in Düsseldorf. In 1934 he won first prize at the Vienna dance competition. In 1936 he went to Léonide Massine at the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo . During the war he tried to evade German military service through an engagement in Italy. However, he was extradited and had to go to the front. Thanks to the commitment of Friderica Derra de Moroda , the director of the Reichsballett KdF , he was released as a soloist.

After the war he became the ballet director of the Bavarian State Opera . There he choreographed the first performance of the ballet Abraxas by Werner Egk . This resulted in a scandal because the intervention of the Bavarian State Minister for Culture, Alois Hundhammer, was seen as censorship. After five performances at the Munich State Opera, he had the work removed from the repertoire and placed it on the index. From 1948 Luipart worked as a freelance choreographer. In 1951 he shone in Göttingen as Escamillo in Hans von Kusserow's dance version of the opera Carmen . Later he concentrated on working as a dance teacher.

From the 1950s onwards there was cooperation with Günter Grass , who wrote libretti for three ballets choreographed by Luipart: In 1954 the ballet Die Gans und die Fünf Köche was premiered to music by Horst Geldmacher , followed by the ballet Stoffreste to music by Aribert Reimann in 1957 . In 1970 the ballet The Scarecrows , which had already found its way into Grass' novel Dog Years (1963), premiered - the music was again written by Aribert Reimann. Marcel Luipart himself appears in the character of Marcel Fenchel in Dog Years .

In the 1970s, Marcel Luipart headed the dance department of the Vienna State Academy. Until recently he worked as a teacher and consultant for the Vienna State Opera. He succumbed to cancer in 1989.

literature

• Thomas Poeschel: Abraxas - Hell Spectaculum. A contemporary libretto of the German national myth from Heinrich Heine to Werner Egk. Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933471-20-6
• Anselm Weyer: Günter Grass and the music , Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 978-3-631-55593-4

Web links

• Anselm Weyer: The dance of Günter Grass. Scarecrows, moths, five cooks and a goose: the great man of letters had a weakness for ballet. In: Tanz - the European magazine for ballet, dance and performance, page 50ff., May 2010 .
• A picture by the artist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Musik-Brockhaus , FA Brockhaus Wiesbaden + B. Schott's Sons Mainz, 1982, p. 333, ISBN 3-7653-0338-0
2. ↑ Sybille Steinbacher How sex came to Germany , p. 103, Siedler 2011, ISBN 978-3-88680-977-6