Riki Raab

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Riki Raab , bourgeois Friederike Anton, b. Raab (born January 15, 1899 in Vienna , † May 29, 1997 ibid) was an Austrian dancer , music writer and essayist .

Life

As a child, Raab attended the ballet school of the Vienna Court Opera until 1910 . She also received singing lessons. From 1910 to 1933 she worked as a ballet dancer at the Vienna State Opera . In 1910 she received her first engagement at the Vienna Court Opera, initially as a dance level, from 1911 as a dancer. She made her debut as a dancer in 1911 in the title role of the dance poem Nippes by Gregor von Pantasi (music: Josef Bayer ; choreography: Joseph Hassreiter). Her debut as a singer was in Franz Liszt's Die Legende der Sankt Elisabeth in 1913 . 1918 followed a contract as a "luminary" (first solo dancer); from 1921 she was engaged there as a solo dancer (prima ballerina). Raab danced numerous solo roles, including a. in Klein Ida's flowers by Paul von Klenau , Liebeszauber (original title: El amor brujo ) by Manuel de Falla , in the ballet pantomime Don Juan by Christoph Willibald Gluck , whipped cream by Richard Strauss , Les petits riens (ballet pantomime) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ma mère l'oye , The Puppenfee , The Princess of Tragant by Oscar Straus and in The Luring Phantom by Franz Salmhofer . Raab gave numerous of his own dance evenings and also created his own ballet choreographies, including a. Die Welt am Mond (music: Michael Haydn ), Ein Jahr (music: Franz Schubert ) and Der Spion (music: Franz Liszt). She gave guest performances a. a. in Spain , Egypt , Palestine, Holland and Belgium .

In 1925 she played under the direction of Robert Wiene in a supporting role in the silent film Der Rosenkavalier , a film adaptation of the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss.

From 1928 to 1931 Raab was a ballet teacher at the Vienna Conservatory . From 1938 to 1952 she was a professor at the Vienna Music Academy . Her students included Wera Goldman and Gerlinde Dill , the former ballet master of the Vienna State Opera and choreographer of the Vienna New Year's Concert . Together with Dill, Riki Raab, who remained artistically active into old age, worked as artistic advisor for the Vienna State Opera in 1983, reconstructing the original version of the ballet Die Puppenfee .

Immediately after the Second World War , Raab, who had also completed a degree in music and language, gave lectures on famous ballet artists from the Vienna State Opera in destroyed Vienna in 1946. She also worked for the dance lexicon published by Otto Schneider in the Schott music publishing house . Furthermore, she presented a comprehensive biographical work on the dancers of the Vienna Opera Ballet. In 1952 she received the professional title "Professor".

She worked as a juror in dance competitions . In the summer of 1959 she was part of the jury of the competition at the International Youth Festival, where Rudolf Nureyev danced for the first time in Vienna.

In 1960 she founded the Fanny Elßler Ring, named after Fanny Elßler (1810–1884) as an equivalent to the Iffland Ring , an award given to outstanding Austrian dance artists. Previous winners were Edeltraud Brexner , Jolantha Seyfried and Dagmar Kronberger.

The Viennese porcelain manufacturer Augarten still produces figurines from porcelain by Riki Raab in her ballet roles.

Riki Raab grave site

Riki Raab was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (63-14-13).

Awards

Works

  • Biographical index of the Vienna Opera Ballet from 1631 to the present. Hollinek, Vienna 1994
  • Fanny Elssler. Bergland Verlag, Vienna 1962
  • Small lexicon for ballet. Volkskunst-Verlag, Berlin [1941]

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Der Rosenkavalier at filmportal.deTemplate: Filmportal.de Title / Maintenance / Various IDs in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  2. ^ Vita Wera Goldman ImPulsTanz Archive
  3. ^ Vita Gerlinde Dill ( Memento from February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Ballet around Christmas, Vienna State Opera Archive 1983
  5. ^ Vienna in retrospect Web service of the City of Vienna
  6. Dance Lexicon. Society, folk and art dance from its beginnings to the present. Internet presence of Schott Musikverlag
  7. Franz Gaul, Figurinen für die Wiener Theater ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Photo archive Photo Marburg @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fotomarburg.de
  8. "Who else if not me?" Memories of Rudolf Nurejew Memories of Gerhard Bronner in: NZZ online from January 6, 2003
  9. ^ Dagmar Kronberger receives the Fanny-Elßler-Ring Tanznetz, April 21, 2008
  10. On the high birthday of Edeltraud Brexner - The last prima ballerina . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  11. ^ Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten: Riki Raab . Retrieved May 21, 2015.