Senta Maria Schmid

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Senta Maria Schmid (born March 27, 1908 , † January 27, 1992 in Tegernsee ) was a German choreographer , dancer and owner of a ballet school in Munich- Solln .

Family and origin

Senta Maria (stage name) was born, presumably in Zwickau , as the daughter of the animal behavior researcher Professor Bastian Schmid (1870–1944), who was known at the time . Bastian Schmid was the author of numerous popular animal books, and in 1953 the Bastian-Schmid-Platz in Munich-Solln was named after him. Senta Maria built around 1958 on the family's property at Sollner Natalienstraße (today Buchauerstraße) 20, in whose garden Bastian Schmid kept over 500 animals such as anteaters, monkeys, storks, jackdaws, wolves and lambs added a ballet studio to the house, which was later demolished.

Life and work until 1939

As early as 1920, when she was twelve years old, Senta Maria, who was talented as a child, organized her first dance evenings. After training at Dorothee Günther's dance school , she was a well-known dancer as early as 1928, as contemporary postcards prove.

Around 1932 Senta Maria created the choreography for her piece "Chorisches Krippenspiel", for which August Schmid-Lindner composed the music.

In 1935 she took part in the choreography and performance of historicizing dance cantatas. In the same year she was entrusted with the dance management of Singspiele in the imperial court of the Munich residence and took over the rehearsal of the dances for a performance of Much Ado About Nothing in a stage design by Leo Pasetti to music by Robert Tant.

She also took part in numerous performances in Switzerland. In 1938 her choreography for the folksong play Ewiger Reigen , a joint work with the Munich chamber virtuoso Heinrich Scherrer (1865–1937), was mentioned in the program book and text booklet of the Tourist Association for the Festive Münsterspiele Bern , and reviews were published in numerous newspapers and journals, such as for example in the Catholic magazine Hochland by Carl Muth .

From 1939

In 1939 she was also represented at the Münsterspiele in Bern with her medieval legendary play The Juggler of Our Lady to the music of Rudolf Moser . This mystery play was later performed in Stuttgart in 1948 and Munich in 1949.

During the war years, Senta Maria also stayed at the house of her friend Rose-Marie Bachofen, Waldemar Bonsels' partner and later wife in Ambach .

Around the autumn of 1940 Senta Maria designed the staging and choreography of the fragment of the novel Münchnerinnen by Ludwig Thoma in the style of historical shepherd games . With musical accompaniment by the Studeny Quartet ( Herma Studeny , Lotte Harburger, Alf Beckmann, Karl List) and Franz Hoffmann on the double bass, the play Der gefoppte Schäfer was performed in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence, with Senta Maria playing the role of the gardener and Lieselotte Berndl played the role of the shepherdess. In addition to Rose-Marie Bachofen, Senta Maria's dance group also included a few other members of Dorothee Günther's school .

During the Mozart Week of the German Reich in 1941, Senta Maria was the dance director for performances of Così fan tutte in Munich and other cities. Her troupe then went on tour with the pantomime “Das Verrückte Tischl”, an adaptation of Mozart by August Schmid-Lindner , as well as the pieces Der gefoppte Schäfer and Eine kleine Nachtmusik , and performed in Regensburg, Meersburg on Lake Constance (August 18, 1941) and other venues. This earned Senta Maria the honorary title of messenger and torch-bearer of Munich dance art .

After 1945

In the course of the post-war turmoil, the composer Mark Lothar came from Berlin to Munich and was introduced to Senta Maria by the singer Felicie Hüni-Mihacsek, who made two rooms in her house available to him for a while. A long-term friendship and artistic collaboration developed, in which Senta Maria used some of Lothar's compositions in dance and also wrote the associated libretto herself , such as for the pieces Allgäuer Ballade and Die Hirtenflöte .

At the end of April 1950 Senta Maria made a guest appearance in the hall of the Kaufmännischer Verein in Basel with the performance of grotesque dances .

Around 1958 she and Marianne Köhler opened the state-recognized dance studio Senta Maria and studio stage in the extension of her father's house , which no longer exists today. With the children's dance theater from her studio she performed THE SHEPHERD'S FLUTE and A FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN on November 11, 1979 , and TWELVE WITH THE POST on March 15 and December 1981 at the Bavarian State Theater . In total, she published no less than fifteen such choreographies for children's dance games, which were performed on large stages such as the Kammerspiele, the Music Academy and the Residenztheater in Munich. The set designers Doris Hüsgen , Carla von Branca and the composers Mark Lothar and Michael Rüggeberg were also involved. In the post-war period Senta Maria made guest appearances as a choreographer for three decades, and with her one-man pantomimes, on a total of over 1000 European stages, and she was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

After the death of her closest long-term colleague Marianne Köhler, Senta Maria sold the Sollner dance studio around 1987, which had to give way to a modern residential building, and moved to a retirement home not far from Lake Tegernsee , where she died in 1992. She had no offspring and was buried in her father's family grave in the Solln cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Festive Münsterspiele, Bern 1939. The juggler of our dear wife: A medieval game of legends designed by v. Senta Maria. Music v. Rudolf Moser. Publishing house KJ Wyss Erben, Bern 1939
  • Festive Münsterspiele, Bern 1938. Eternal round dance: dance cantata of old folk songs , by Senta Maria and Heinrich Scherrer. Program and text book. Publishing house KJ Wyss Erben, Bern 1938
  • Senta Maria: The dancing spirit in Mark Lothar's music , in: Alfons Ott: Mark Lothar , Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1968

literature

  • Rose-Marie Bonsels: Paula Ludwig - Waldemar Bonsels (= Ambacher Schriften. 8). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994. ISBN 3-447-03579-X .
  • Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr : Friendships in the White Rose. Verlag Geschichtswerkstatt Neuhausen, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-931231-00-3 (planned new edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who's who in Germany. 1976, p. 346 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Obituary by Karl Ude. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 6, 1992, Stadtanzeiger Ost.
  3. ^ Photos by Senta Maria in the late 1920s on a private sales website
  4. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Volume 100, Part 1, Verlag B. Schott, January 1933, p. 17 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ cf. Magazine for Music, Volume 102, Issues 7-12. 1935
  6. ↑ Shakespeare Yearbook, Volume 71, Verlag B. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1935.
  7. ↑ Dance cantata of old folk songs by Senta Maria and Heinrich Scherrer. Program u. Text book. Verlag KJ Wyss, Bern 1938 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ↑ Neues Hochland, Volume 35, January 1, 1938, p. 511 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  9. ↑ cf. New Magazine for Music, Volume 113, 1952
  10. ^ Rose-Marie Bonsels: Paula Ludwig - Waldemar Bonsels (= Ambacher Schriften. 8). 1994, p. 1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  11. ↑ Munich Latest News. September 12, 1940. Quoted from: Hans Schulz, Otto Basler: German Foreign Dictionary. Volume 3: Baby Cutter. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-015741-1 , p. 725 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  12. ↑ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Ed. 108, 1941, Part 2, p. 560 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  13. ^ Mark Lothar (= composer in Bavaria. 10). H. Schneider, Tutzing 1986, ISBN 3-7952-0478-X , p. 43 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
  14. ↑ cf. Basler Jahrbuch , Verlag Helbing & Lichtenhahn., Basel 1951
  15. ↑ a b WHO is WHO in the Arts. 1978, p. 229 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  16. ↑ cf. in: ... then they played again: the Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986
  17. ↑ OCLC 985513476
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Senta Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senta Maria (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1992
Place of death Tegernsee