Steffy Stahl

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Steffy Stahl , also Steffi Stahl , bourgeois Stefanie Stahl , (born on May 26, 1909 in Lemberg , Empire Austria-Hungary ; died on September 21, 1993 in Venezuela ) was an Austrian dancer , dance teacher and choreographer .

Life

Steffy Stahl was born as the daughter of Abraham Adolf Stahl and his wife Regina Eugenie Stahl (later mentioned in Venezuela under the name Regina Bodenstein de Stahl) in Lemberg, the capital of Galicia . Her father had a doctorate in law and worked as a lawyer and criminal defense attorney in Lviv from 1910 . During the First World War he was obliged to do military service and in 1915 was appointed "Landsturm-Oberleutnant-Auditor" [= public prosecutor at a military court]. He died at the age of 38 in July 1916 in the hospital in Cholm from a "wound suffered in the exercise of his duty in the northern theater of war". Her mother is listed in the “Official Health Resort List” of the “Kurort Baden bei Wien” of September 3, 1927 as an “Official from Vienna”.

Steffy Stahl received piano and music lessons from private teachers in Vienna and attended lectures in anatomy and physiology at the University of Vienna . She completed her dance studies at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with the dancer, choreographer and dance teacher Gertrud Bodenwieser .

After completing her training, Stahl worked as a teacher for rhythmic gymnastics in Vienna. In the early 1930s she opened her own gymnastics and dance school, "Steffy Stahl's Studio for Rhythmics, Gymnastics, Acrobatics, Ballet and Tap Dance", which she ran in changing rooms in Josefstädter Strasse and Tigergasse in the 8th district of Josefstadt , and where she taught children and adults. Her children's ballet also danced at events in the Vienna Konzerthaus .

She was a member of the modern dance group founded by Gertrud Bodenwieser in 1934 , which is considered to be the first modern dance formation in Europe. She also founded her own dance ensemble with dancers, with which she performed publicly. Steffy Stahl and her ensemble can be seen in a dance choreography in the short sound film "Lebenslied" , which the Viennese director Robert Reich shot in the Vienna Burggarten and in the Vienna Schönbrunn Ateliers. In July 1931 she opened her annual "summer courses for gymnastics, acrobatics and dance" in the lido of Gars am Kamp , for which she later insulted in the press as "Jewish Resi [sic!] Stahl" in the course of the anti-Semitic agitation against Jewish artists and was defamed.

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", she emigrated to Venezuela via Italy in August 1938 at the invitation of the government and the local education ministry. There she successfully continued her career as a dance teacher. She is considered one of the early artistic "forerunners" of Venezuelan ballet life. She became the director of a dance education program at kindergartens and elementary schools in Caracas and worked as a dance teacher and trainer for dance teachers at municipal and state schools in Caracas. She was the director of the "Studio de Arte Coreografico Caracas". Stahl developed her own holistic learning system and worked as a dance choreographer primarily for children's ballets, which were performed in particular with hundreds of children at public events.

In 1950 she was awarded the Venezuelan State Order Francisco de Miranda . She also received the Order of 27 de Junio . In March 1990, her work was publicly recognized by the National Council of Culture (Consejo Nacional de la Cultura) of Venezuela at a ceremony in the Teatro Nacional de Venezuela. Her book El amanecer de la danza was published in 1992 by the Venezuelan Ministry of Culture .

The Austrian literary and cultural scientist Andreas Weigel dedicated several articles to the dancer Steffy Stahl in January and February 2020 on his culture blog "Garser Tourismusgeschichte", which appeared on Facebook , and remembered her life in historical documents, newspaper clippings and photos.

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  1. ↑ a b c Steffy Stahl . Short biography (span.). Calletres.com. Edition November 2018.
  2. ↑ Regina Eugenie Stahl . "Official health resort list" of the "health resort Baden near Vienna" from August 29, 1914.
  3. ↑ Eugenie Stahl . "Official health resort list" of the "Kurort Baden bei Wien" from July 31, 2016.
  4. ↑ See "Stranger List No. 2 of the market town of Gars" from July 1, 1925: "Ms. Eugenie Stahl, civil servant from Vienna with daughter" as guests in the "Phönix Recreational Home"
  5. ↑ Dr. Adolf Stahl, defense attorney, with his wife, from Lemberg . "Official health resort list" of the "Kurort Baden bei Wien" from June 7, 1908.
  6. ↑ Lemma “Auditor”. In: Jakob Ebner: How do you say in Austria. Dictionary of Austrian peculiarities. Duden paperbacks. (Mannheim) 1969. p. 31.
  7. ↑ Abraham (Adolf) Stahl . In: Wiener Zeitung of June 27, 2015. No. 147, page 4.
  8. ↑ Lieutenant auditor Dr. Adolf Stahl . In: Neue Freie Presse from July 21, 2016, page 10.
  9. ↑ Eugenie Stahl, civil servant . "Official health resort list" of the "Kurort Baden bei Wien" from September 3, 1927.
  10. ↑ Brigitten afternoon / Easter hype . Event information and program from March 5, 1932.
  11. ↑ Gertrud Bodenwieser . In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933–1945 . Volume 2. The Arts, Sciences, and Literature Saur, Munich 2014. Copyright year 1983. p. 127. ISBN 978-3-598-10089-5 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).
  12. ^ "Film recordings in Vienna's Burggarten" . In: "Mein Film", issue No. 388, page 10.
  13. ^ New Free Press of June 28, 1931
  14. ↑ Quotation: "The wonderful Garser Bad was the purest Jewish aquarium in the system time, and it was not very pleasant to see how the Jewish Resi Stahl taught the crooked-legged youngsters the beginnings of the rhythmic art of dance under monotonous drumming." In: "Land-Zeitung" from June 1, 1938, Krems.
  15. ^ Murió Belén Lobo, una de laspioneras del ballet en Venezuela . Danzaballett.com.
  16. ↑ Children Learn Dances in Mass Formations . In: Venezuela up-to-date . English-language monthly magazine of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington. Issue December 1950. page 30.
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Steffy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahl, Steffi; Stahl, Stefanie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian dancer, dance teacher and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Austro-Hungarian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1993
Place of death Venezuela