Susanne Linke

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Susanne Linke (born June 19, 1944 in Lüneburg ) is a German solo dancer and choreographer of international standing who further developed German dance theater .

family

Susanne Linke is the daughter of Pastor Heinz Linke and his wife Rosi Linke-Schäfer (née Peschko). Her uncle Sebastian Peschko worked as a pianist and accompanist.

Early career

Susanne Linke only started to deal with dance when she was twenty . A hearing and language disorder and the subsequent learning to speak and understand, which was delayed by over ten years, delayed her development as a child. Linke went to the Mary Wigman Studio in Berlin in 1964 to take dance lessons. There she met her great role model, Dore Hoyer . Three years later she moved to Essen to pursue her studies at the Folkwang University . In 1970, encouraged by Pina Bausch , she moved to the “Folkwang Tanzstudio”, which she directed, as a dancer.

Susanne Linke has been choreographing since 1970. Her 1975 choreographies Danse funèbre , Doll? and Trop Trad , were awarded prizes. From that year on, she ran the Folkwang dance studio together with Reinhild Hoffmann in the absence of Pina Bausch and stayed in this position for 10 years.

This was followed by the choreographies The Next Please (1978), Im Bade wannen and Wowerwiewas (1980), Flut and Women's Ballet ( 1981), It Swan and We Can't All Be Swans (1982). Their first full evening of dance theater in 1983 after the Bacchae of Euripides called on dance space .

Solo career and international activity

The international solo career was significantly promoted by the Goethe Institute . Follow steps (1985) was Linke's first major solo ballet, which dealt with her troubled childhood and her development as a dancer. In 2007, she and three dancers reconstructed this work with the equipment of the visual artist VA Wölfl as follow steps - reconstruction and transmission in 2007 . She has toured all the major festivals since the 1980s, danced her own solos there and became world famous for her work. In 1985 she stepped down from the management of the Folkwang dance studio and worked as a freelance choreographer a. a. for the José Limón Company in New York, for Grupo Corpo in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the Paris Opera and the Nederlands Dans Theater .

In 1987 she showed her own view of 4 of the 5 solo choreographies from the Afectos Humanos cycle (1962) by Dore Hoyer , which are dedicated to the subjects of vanity, desire, fear and love and were found as film recordings in Hoyer's estate. She added her own choreography Dolor (pain), which deals with Hoyer's work and says goodbye to the role model.

The next works, the duos Affekte (1988) and Affekte / Gelb (1990), took up the basic themes of the Afectos again and transferred them to the relationship between two people. On the left she danced with her partner Urs Dietrich .

Her internationally shown choreographies such as B. So Egmont, Please (1986) were very successful. In Ruhr-Ort (1991), she dealt with the working world in the Ruhr in a very realistic manner and the parallelism of earlier work on the colliery with today's modern computer-controlled industrial exploitation of resources.

In the early 1990s, Linke founded the "Company Susanne Linke" at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin . In 1994, together with Urs Dietrich, she set up a new company at the Bremen Theater . In 2000/01 she was co-founder of the Essen Choreographic Center and became its artistic director. Since 2001 Susanne Linke has been working again as a freelance choreographer and dancer.

Awards

In 2007 the German Professional Association for Dance Education eV awarded the choreographer and dancer Susanne Linke the German Dance Prize for her life's work . On June 14, 2008, she was appointed Officer for Art and Literature / Officier des Arts et des Lettres at the Berlin Academy of the Arts by the French Counselor for Culture, Mr Jean d'Haussonville . The Folkwang University in Essen made her an honorary professor in 2010 to confirm her commitment there as a university lecturer.

literature

  • Jochen Schmidt: Dance theater in Germany. Propylaen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-549-05206-5 .
  • Norbert Servos (ed.): Following steps - the dancer and choreographer Susanne Linke. K. Kieser Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-935456-09-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Left, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German solo dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg