Niddy Impekoven

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Niddy Impekoven, 1933

Niddy Impekoven (actually Luise Impekoven ; born November 2, 1904 in Berlin ; † November 20, 2002 in Bad Ragaz ) was a German dancer and actress .

biography

Niddy, as she was called as a child, was the daughter of Toni and Frieda Impekoven , nee Kobler and Sabine Impekoven's niece . At the age of five she began her dance training with the former solo dancer at the Royal Opera House in Berlin, Margarete Altmann, and appeared in public for the first time in 1910 as part of a charity event in Berlin. From 1914 to 1917 she continued her education in Frankfurt am Main - namely with the solo dancer and later ballet master at the municipal opera, Heinrich Kröller - and then at the school for classical gymnastics at Bieberstein Castle in the Rhön . In 1918 she showed her first own program at the Unter den Linden opera in Berlin, which she had rehearsed with her teacher Heinrich Kröller. Here, as later, she mainly danced to classical music. She was inspired by Lotte Pritzel and Erna Pinner's artistic dolls for her puppet dances and the high-spirited Erna Pinner puppet dance. A grotesque, amusing trampling dance called Münchner Kaffeewärmer (based on a composition by Carl Englert and later arranged by Curt Goldmann ) also became known. Numerous tours took her across Europe. After finishing her dancing career due to a serious injury, she lived in Basel from 1935 , where she was naturalized in 1946. Your estate is kept in the German Dance Archive in Cologne.

She can be seen in the film Paths to Strength and Beauty and other films.

She married the surgeon Hans Killian in 1923 and divorced in 1929.

Works

A catalog raisonné with 51 dances (1918–1929) can be found in: Hans Frentz: Niddy Impekoven and their dances. 2nd Edition. Urban-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1930, p. 62 f.

Filmography

Representations in the fine arts

Niddy Impekoven has been depicted in paintings, drawings, prints, and porcelain figurines. In 1922 an Art Deco figure was produced by the Viennese manufacture Friedrich Goldscheider based on a design by Josef Lorenzl , which Niddy Impekoven showed in the depiction of the prisoner bird . This figure was sold worldwide and is still very popular with collectors of Art Deco ceramics.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt Signature: PD-REG 3a 21339 ( [1] )
  2. ↑ p. 4, 13. Niddy Impekoven as “Munich coffee warmer”. , accessed March 9, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.deutsches-tanzarchiv.de/archiv/nachlaesse-sammlungen/i/niddy-impekoven/
  4. ↑ "Gefangener Vogel" , accessed again on March 6, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Impekoven, Niddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Impekoven, Luise (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2002
Place of death Bad Ragaz