Peter Roleff
Peter Roleff (born December 18, 1906 in Quadrath-Ichendorf ; † March 21, 1994 in Neubünsch ) was a German ballet dancer , choreographer and dance teacher .
biography
Peter Roleff studied with Victor Gsovsky and Berthold Schmid in Berlin. He made his debut as a dancer with Lizzie Maudrik at the Städtische Oper Berlin and then went to the theaters in Augsburg (1931) and Essen (1932). From 1935 he worked as a freelance choreographer and ballet teacher in Berlin.
During the National Socialist era , Roleff was arrested as a homosexual on March 23, 1936 for a violation of Section 175 and sentenced to two years in prison by the Essen District Court on September 25, 1936 .
After the war, Roleff worked in the 1946/47 season as a ballet master and soloist at the Wiesbaden Theater, then freelance in Cologne and as head of the Cologne Tanzbrunnen Ballet from 1948 to 1951. He was then ballet master at the theaters in Bonn from 1951 to 1953 and in 1953 -56 in Bielefeld. Here he choreographed the world premieres of Bernd Alois Zimmermanns Kontraste und Alagoana (1954).
In 1956, Roleff and the solo dancer Karl-Heinz King founded their own ballet school in Munich, which still exists today under the name “Ballettakademie Roleff-King”.
Peter Roleff worked in the films The Congress Dances , Clothes Make the Man and The Post goes with you. His ballet Diana Sorpresa (music by Harald Banter ) was broadcast on German television in 1960. Roleff's estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .
literature
- Horst Koegler and Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 377.
- Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (Ed.): Man for Man - Biographical Lexicon. On the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area . Vol. 2, Lit Verlag , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10693-3 , pp. 991-992.
Web links
- Sheet music by Peter Roleff in the catalog of the German National Library .
- Page about Peter Roleff at the German Dance Archive Cologne.
- Peter Roleff in the Internet Movie Database .
- Peter Roleff at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolai Clarus, Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (ed.): Man for man: biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area , 2010, pp. 991–992
- ↑ Prospectus of the Roleff-King Ballet School (PDF; 262 kB)
- ↑ Performance on television in 1960
- ^ List of bequests in the German Dance Archive Cologne, last accessed on November 1, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roleff, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dance teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quadrath-Ichendorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1994 |
| Place of death | Re-firing |