Sylvin Rubinstein

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Sylvin Rubinstein , stage name Imperio (* 1914 near Moscow ; † April 30, 2011 in Hamburg , Germany ) was a Russian-Polish dancer and resistance fighter.

Career

Sylvin and his twin sister Maria were the illegitimate children of a Polish-Jewish dancer and Nikolai Pjetr Dodorow , an officer of Tsar Nicholas II. The father was killed during the 1917 revolution after he had previously brought his family to safety in Poland. The mother had sewn valuable jewelry into the children's clothes, which saved the family from poverty.

Around 1924 the family moved to Riga , where the children, who had been dancing for a number of years, received lessons from a prima ballerina. After seven years of ballet , the siblings switched to flamenco and became known throughout Europe as Dolores & Imperio in the 1930s . In 1939, when the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland, they were surprised and could no longer leave the country. From 1940 the siblings lived underground in Warsaw after they had fled the ghetto .

In the German major and bon vivant Kurt Werner, of all places, who belonged to the resistance, Sylvin found a supporter and helper. Werner recognized him as the dancer and recruited him for his resistance group . In women's clothes, he carried out errands, attacks and assassinations. When Maria was discovered by the Nazis and abducted in 1942, a world fell apart for Sylvin. Werner helped him to leave the country as a worker to Berlin in 1943 with forged papers. There he saw the end of the war.

Sylvin moved to Hamburg and started dancing again. Nobody knew that the famous 1950s flamenco dance star Dolores was actually Sylvin Rubinstein. The war had inevitably made him a travesty artist and the travesty made him a star again. The composer Michael Jary , who temporarily lived with Rubinstein after the war, dedicated the song to him in 1951: Only Dolores' legs do that .

Sylvin Rubinstein lived in St. Pauli until his death . Sylvin Rubinstein died on April 30, 2011 in Hamburg. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery Ilandkoppel in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf .

Various objects and stage costumes by Sylvin are now in the Sankt Pauli Museum .

Movie

The Polish director and cameraman Marian Czura shot the 90-minute documentary “ He danced life ” about his life between 1998 and 2003 .

literature

  • Kuno Kruse : Dolores & Imperio. The three lives of Sylvin Rubinstein ; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2000, Cologne. (With photos). ISBN 3-462-02926-6 . As paperback 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two evenings in memory of Sylvin Rubinstein ( memento of the original from August 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Elbe Wochenblatt, accessed on August 26, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elbe-wochenblatt.de
  2. ↑ Homage to Sylvin Rubinstein. In: Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen and Antifaschisten, Landesvereinigung Hamburg. July 4, 2011, accessed August 26, 2017 .
  3. ^ Mathias Thurm: Sankt Pauli Museum at a new location. In: M - The current magazine. February 12, 2020, accessed March 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rubinstein, Sylvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imperio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Polish dancer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH near Moscow
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2011
Place of death Hamburg , Germany