Tatiana Barbakoff

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Tatjana Barbakoff (born August 15, 1899 as Tsipora Edelberg in Aizpute / Hasenpoth (now Latvia , then the Russian Governorate of Courland ); † February 6, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a dancer.

Life

Tatjana Barbakoff was born as Tsipora Edelberg, daughter of the Jewish butcher Aizik and his wife Genya (born September 22, 1856 in Aizpute, died May 11, 1903 in Libau, daughter of Israel and Gintel Hirschberg from Aizpute). In addition to the Jewish first name Tsipora, she also adopted the Russian nickname Cilia / Cilly, which was common in the diaspora . Barbakoff had an older brother and after the early death of his mother († 1903) and the remarriage of his father to Haja-Sora Itskovitch (born in 1886 in Pskow , murdered in 1941 in Libau ) a younger stepsister (born in 1912 in Libau).

She attended ballet school at an early age , but had no further dance training. She started dancing at the age of ten. In 1918 she followed the German soldier Georg Waldmann, who had done his military service in the Baltic Sea Governments during World War I , to Germany , where she later married him. She performed Russian and Chinese dances with her husband, who appeared under the pseudonym Marcel Boissier as emcee . From 1921 she designed solo performances in larger houses at home and abroad, mostly designing her costumes, described as plastic-painterly, herself. It was not until 1924 that one can see from the previously known press reports that, in addition to Russian dances and parodies, she has now also included Chinese dances in her program. Due to her attractive personal charisma, she developed into a crowd puller and magnet for many artists, including Rudolf Heinisch and Kasia von Szadurska , whom she portrayed in numerous photos, pictures and sculptures. In 1927 the Barbakoff separated from her husband.

On the occasion of an appearance in the Chopin Hall, 252, Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris on May 9, 1933, she was able to travel from Berlin to Paris with all her costumes. Her friend, the painter Gert Heinrich Wollheim , who became her partner during the French emigration, traveled to Paris via Saarbrücken . In France, the Netherlands and Switzerland she continued to perform for a while.

After the German troops marched into France, she was interned on May 10, 1940 in Camp de Gurs . In June she was released and moved to Nay , later to Clelles near Grenoble . On October 20, 1940, she wrote a desperate letter to her friend Maria Meinen from Préchacq-Navarrenx (Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and asked her for a grocery package. In this little Pyrenean village, after months of internment, she had miraculously found her partner Gert Heinrich Wollheim. Following the withdrawal of Italian troops from the Côte d'Azur , she came to Nice , where she by the Gestapo picked up and in which, according to briefing note dated 23 January 1944 collection camp Drancy near Paris deported was. On February 3, she came to Auschwitz with "Konvoi 67", where she was murdered in the gas chamber on February 6, 1944 .

Portraits

literature

  • Layla Zami: Three women, one search for traces - the dancer Tatjana Barbakoff. Article from 19  Cheschwan 5780 / October 22, 2012 on aviva-berlin.de ( full text online )
  • Günter Goebbels: Tatjana Barbakoff. A forgotten dancer in pictures and documents . Freundeskreis Kulturbahnhof Eller eV, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 3-931697-21-5 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name from January 18 to March 1, 2009 in the Kultur Bahnhof Eller and from March 18 to June 27, 2010 in the Hidden Museum ).
  • Anja Hellhammer: As strange as the Far East: Tanja Barbakoff. In: Amelie Soyka (Ed.): Dancing and dancing and nothing but dancing. Modern dancers from Josephine Baker to Mary Wigman. AvivA Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-932338-22-7 , pp. 105–124.
  • Tatiana Barbakoff. Dancer and muse , with texts by Klara Drenker-Nagels, Hildegard Reinhardt, Günter Goebbels and Anja Hellhammer. August Macke House Bonn Association, Bonn 2003.
  • Hildegard Reinhardt: Tatjana Barbakoff. Dancer and muse. In: Weltkunst , issue 2, February 2003.

Web links

Commons : Tatjana Barbakoff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dancer Tatjana Barbakoff. Article from February 11, 2010 on AVIVA-Berlin .de.
  2. ↑ Waldemar Flaig: Oil paintings by Tatjana Barbakoff  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.waldemarflaig.com  
  3. ↑ Pictures of Barbakoff by Kasia von Szadurska and others
personal data
SURNAME Barbakoff, Tatiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edelberg, Tsipora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION dancer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Aizpute (Hasenpoth), Latvia
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp