Rita Sacchetto
Rita Sacchetto , née Margaritha Sacchetto, (born January 15, 1880 in Munich , † January 18, 1959 in Genoa ) was a German dancer and actress .
biography
Her resolve to become a dancer solidified when she saw Isadora Duncan on a tour in 1902. She completed an apprenticeship and made her debut in 1905 at the Munich Künstlerhaus. In her dance pictures she recreated paintings by well-known painters such as Thomas Gainsborough or Joshua Reynolds in the tradition of the Tableaux Vivants . Her performances included sarabands, minuets, gavottes by Johann Sebastian Bach and Jean-Philippe Rameau , Hungarian folk dances, the tarantella by Chopin , spring voices by Johann Strauss and others. v. a.
The Miethke Gallery invited her to Vienna. Painters like Gustav Klimt , Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann were enthusiastic about their dance interpretations. In 1908 and 1909 she began a tour of North and South America and appeared as a soloist in the New York Metropolitan Opera at the invitation of Loïe Fuller . In 1910 she toured Russia.
In the costume of Empress Eugénie , she danced in Paris in the theater of the famous fashion designer Paul Poiret . In 1912 she appeared in the Munich Künstlerhaus together with Alexander Sacharoff and made her first film, Odette , in 1913 . For several years she made a number of films as a popular actress for the Nordisk Filmgesellschaft in Copenhagen, such as B. Fra Fryste til Knejpevaert (1913) or The Mermaid Queen (1917).
In 1914 she moved from Munich to Berlin and set up a dance school in her villa. Rahel Sanzara , Anita Berber and Dinah Nelken are among her most famous students; Valeska Gert took part in school performances in 1916 without being a Sacchetto student. On May 5, 1917, Rita Sacchetto married the Polish Count Zamoyski from Zamość . In 1918 she returned to Munich for a year. After an accident, she said goodbye to the stage and withdrew to Poland with her husband. In 1930 the couple went to Italy. She died in Nervi near Genoa in January 1959 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1916: The Skønne Evelyn
- 1916: Rovedderkoppen
- 1916: Fyrstindens skæbne
- 1916: Princess Krinoline (Det gaadefulde Væsen)
- 1917: Sabina
- 1917: The mermaid queen
literature
- Brygida M. Ochaim, Claudia Balk: Variety dancers around 1900. From sensual intoxication to modern dance, exhibition by the German Theater Museum in Munich, October 23, 1998– January 17, 1999. , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-87877-745-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sacchetto, Rita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sacchetto, Margaritha (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dancer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1959 |
| Place of death | Genoa |