Ruth Abramovich

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Alice Ruth Elly Abramowitsch , stage name Ruth Sorel (born June 18, 1907 in Halle (Saale) , † April 1, 1974 in Warsaw ) was a German dancer, choreographer and representative of modern dance .

Life

The father Aron Abramowitz (1876–1944) was a merchant in Halle and later became an inmate of the Theresienstadt ghetto and a victim of the Holocaust . The mother was not Jewish. Ruth Abramowitsch trained in dance with Mary Wigman and in 1926 became a member of the Essen Opera ensemble . From there she went to the Städtische Oper Berlin as a prima ballerina in 1927 . In the 1931/32 season she danced at the Berliner Volksbühne in choreographies by Lizzie Maudrik and Margherita Wallmann . With Georg Groke (1904–1999) she formed the dance couple Groke-Abramowitsch.

Ruth and her siblings were politically left-wing and members of the KPD . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in Germany, she never returned from a performance in Poland in 1933. She was able to work there and went on tour with her partner Groke to Palestine and the United States . In 1940 she and her husband, the Polish writer Michał Choromański, had to flee to Brazil via Italy, France and England. Between 1943 and 1957 she was able to work in Canada under the stage name Ruth Sorel . In Montreal she founded the company Les Ballets Ruth Sorel (also under the name Ruth Sorel Modern Dance Group ) and was one of the founders of the Canadian Ballet Festival in 1948 . With the composer Pierre Brabant (* 1925) she created the ballet La Gaspésienne in Montreal in 1949 , which was also shown in New York and Warsaw in 1950.

In the mid-1950s she returned to Poland with her husband, who had lost his literary skills after emigration .

A Stolperstein is dedicated to his father Aaron Abramowitsch in Halle . A relative is the Berlin photographer Markus Hawlik-Abramowitz .

literature

  • Roman Arndt: Ruth Abramowitsch-Sorel. A brief portrait. In: dance drama. Magazine. Issue 42, September 1998, title page and pp. 28-29.
  • Marek Soltysik: Swiadomosc to kamien. Kartki zycia Michala Choromanskiego. Poznań 1989, ISBN 83-210-0684-1 . (contains excerpts from an unpublished diary by Ruth Sorel)
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss , Institute for Contemporary History Munich (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933. (= International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933–1945) 4 volumes, Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598 -10087-6 .
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . ed. from the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lizzie Maudrik (1898–1955) see imdb
  2. ↑ to Michał Choromański (1904–1972) DNB 118914383 and Polish Wikipedia pl: Michał Choromański
  3. ↑ on Pierre Brabant see English Wikipedia en: Pierre Brabant and Pierre Brabant ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Abramovich, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abramowitsch Sorel, Ruth Elly; Sorel-Choromaska, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1974
Place of death Warsaw