Pepita de Oliva
Pepita de Oliva (* 1830 in Málaga ; † March 1, 1871 in Turin ) was a Spanish dancer. Pepita de Oliva ("olive stone") was her nickname, the stage name Josefa de la Oliva. She was born in Malaga in 1830 as Josefa Durán y Ortega. In 1849 her mother sent her to Madrid , where the young Josefa trained as a dancer. There she married Juan de Oliva in 1851.
She became a member of the Madrid Ballet Choir , came to Germany in 1852 and first performed successfully in Stuttgart . From Leipzig , where she also received applause, her reputation was founded, which was strengthened and expanded by her appearance in Berlin in 1853. In the illustrated Monday newspaper Berliner Feuerspritze , published in Berlin, the seductive charisma of the dancer was satirically honored in the article "A Spanish Dancer" (printed in the Kladderadatsch of March 27, 1853: She danced with castanets, because rattling is part of the trade, but it does not warn how the rattlesnake with this instrument, but it pulls the poor birds, which are already half enraptured by their gaze, into their entanglements. )
During her time in Berlin, she lived in a small castle at the northern end of Streitstrasse, on today's Hakenfelder Strasse in Berlin-Hakenfelde (later the Waldschlösschen restaurant, also called Pepitas Ruh). Since then she has danced on all the major stages in Germany and neighboring countries and was extremely successful due to her characteristic dance and personality. She then went to Munich and appeared here for the first time in February 1856 as Fenella in Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's La muette de Portici .
Pepita de Oliva died in Turin in 1871 shortly after the birth of her seventh child.
The textile pattern Pepita was named after her. Near her previous place of residence, on Mertensstrasse and Goltzstrasse in Berlin-Spandau , a larger rental apartment building project with 1024 residential units bears her name( Pepitahöfe ). The cul-de-sac in the new development area has been called Pepitapromenade since May 1, 2018.
Musically she was honored in 1853 by Johann Strauss with his composition Pepita-Polka . Various lithographs attest to the grace of the dancer, e.g. B. by Paul Bürde in 1854. Adolph von Menzel portrayed her with a pastel drawing (original in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg ).
literature
- Kladderadatsch 1853, No. 14/15, p. 59.
- Pierer's Universal-Lexikon 1861, Vol. 12, p. 275. |
- Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz : About Pepitas Ruh and the Pepita , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins 42 (1925), pp. 17-19.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oliva, Pepita de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oliva, Josefa de la (stage name); Durán y Ortega, Josefa (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Málaga |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1871 |
| Place of death | Turin |