Trudi Schoop

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Trudi Schoop, cigarette picture by Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski , 1933.

Trudi Schoop , also Trudy Schoop (born October 9, 1903 in Zurich ; † July 14, 1999 in Van Nuys , Los Angeles ) was a Swiss dancer , dance therapist and cabaret artist .

Life

Early years

Trudi Schoop was born on October 9, 1903 in Zurich as the daughter of Friedrich Maximilian Schoop (1871–1924) and Emma Olga Schoop. Böppli (1873–1959) born. On her father's side, Trudi came from a family of scholars, professors and teachers, her grandfather Ulrich Schoop (1830–1911) was a teacher at the applied arts school in Zurich . Trudi's father was an editor, among others at the “Zürcher Post”, and president of the Grand Hotel Dolder and, as he himself reported, a respected and valued man in Zurich's intellectual circles. Trudi's free-thinking and unconventional mother came from " Toggenburg ischen miracle doctors" and was a warm-hearted woman with an insatiable thirst for freedom and life. The family lived on the Zürichberg , where the Dolder hotel was also located.

Trudi was the second of four children. Her older brother was the painter Max Schoop (1902–1984). Her younger sister was the dancer and sculptor Hedi Schoop (1906–1995), her younger brother was the composer Paul Schoop (1909–1976). The children were raised in a free and informal atmosphere, and the parents encouraged their children's artistic development, all of whom took up artistic professions.

  • Trudi Schoop's mother at the age of 84, 1957.

  • Grand Hotel Dolder, around 1905.

job

As an autodidact, Trudi Schoop largely taught herself to dance. At the age of 17 she first appeared in a solo performance in the Pfauentheater in her hometown. Only later did she take professional dance and ballet lessons. In 1921 she founded her first dance school.

At the end of the 1920s, Trudi Schoop and her brother Paul Schoop were desperately looking for suitable music for their self-invented pantomimes. “One day my brother Paul sat down with me and started translating my ideas into musical sequences. My composer was found! ”In the 1930s, Paul composed most of the ballet music for Trudi's pantomimes, mostly in collaboration with Huldreich Früh (1903–1945).

During this time Trudi Schoop undertook numerous tours, on which she was also accompanied by her sister Hedi Schoop and the dancer Suzanne Perrottet , through major European cities such as Berlin, Oslo, Amsterdam, Prague, Stockholm and Paris. Due to her strong physical humor , the expressive dancer Schoop was often celebrated as a female Charlie Chaplin or related to Grock in humor . In 1932 she achieved second place with her dance comedy Fridolin en route at the renowned Paris Grand Concours Internationale de Chorégraphie .

In addition, she worked several times as a choreographer and dancer in film. With the dance comedy Fridolin, Trudi Schoop was traveling in America for four months in 1936.

With the beginning of the Second World War , she dissolved her dance group. Between 1941 and 1945 she was involved in the anti-fascist Cabaret Cornichon in Zurich . After the end of the war, she renamed her dance group for a short time and went on tour again - this time through the United States of America. In 1948 she finally dissolved the dance group and ended her stage career at the same time.

A few years later she moved to California. There she devoted herself entirely to the task of positively influencing mentally disturbed people through dance. She had experienced this effect of dance on psychoses several times in her youth. As a therapist, together with Tina Keller-Jenny , she decisively developed dance therapy based on CGJung and Toni Wolff for chronically psychotic people and is one of the “mothers of dance therapy” alongside Franziska Boas , Marian Chace and Liljan Espenak and Mary Whitehouse .

Initially without psychological or clinical training, Trudy Schoop later worked closely with medical institutions such as the Camarillo State Mental Hospital and the UCLA association . With her body-ego technique , she tried to get people out of their isolation into old age and to help them to accept themselves and to establish contact with other people.

A few years before Trudi Schoop's death, the filmmaker Claudia Willke made two documentaries with and about the dance therapist: The portrait Die Eroberung der Vleere (1992) and Come, dance with me (1990), which shows Trudy Schoop working with patients at the Münsterlingen psychiatry .

Filmography

  • 1931: enemy in blood. Director: Walter Ruttmann . Choreography and dance: Trudi Schoop.
  • 1953: They found a home. Other title: The Pestalozzidorf. Director: Leopold Lindtberg . Choreography: Trudi Schoop
  • 1990: Come dance with me - Trudi Schoop. Documentary by Claudia Willke, 1990.
  • 1992: Conquering the Void - Trudi Schoop. Documentary by Claudia Willke, 1992.

painting

A picture of a cat by Trudi Schoop, before 1958.

In the 1950s, Trudi Schoop said to her compatriot Carl Seelig : “Now all I want to do is paint and drown in colors.” And: “From now on I would like to only be a cat portraitist!”

Carl Seelig asked himself: “But why cats? She also paints flowers, dogs and children. She would even like to make portraits of the latter. But she is afraid that the client will complain that the nose is too big or the color of the eyes is not blue enough. The cats, on the other hand, can be painted however she wants. She thinks she knows them well, these mysterious, charming and graceful creatures, who can now be strange like a jungle creature and now trusting like an aunt. Most of the time it is cats that have run into the area that she paints. But the most dreamlike thing about Trudi are the South American panther cats, the wonderfully spotted ocelots. She is really in love with her. ”When looking at her pictures of cats, one is involuntarily reminded of the French customs officer Henri Rousseau .

Works

  • before 1958: A cat picture (see picture).
  • 1959: Five cats.

Publications

  • Trudi Schoop; Peggy Mitchell; Hedi Schoop (illustration): Won't you join the dance? A dancer's essay into the treatment of psychosis. Palo Alto, Calif. 1974 Excerpt: .
  • Trudi Schoop; Peggy Mitchell; Hedi Schoop (illustration); Marigna Gerig (translation): Come and dance with me! : come, come on, come on, come on, come and dance with me !; an attempt to help the psychotic person through the elements of dance. Zurich 2006, excerpt . - German translation of #Schoop 1974 .

literature

  • Klaus Budzinski ; Reinhard Hippen : Metzler Cabaret Lexicon. Stuttgart 1996, page 361.
  • Bx .: five cats. [Painting by Trudi Schoop]. In: You: cultural monthly , 12th year, issue 12, 1959, page 33, doi : 10.5169 / seals-291690 .
  • Sharon Chaiklin: Schoop, Trudi. John A. Garraty (Editor): American national biography, Supplement 2. New York 2005, pp. 505–507.
  • Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Hans Wickihalder . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 .
  • Sol Hurok: A Swiss Comedian. In: The World of ballet. London 1955, pp. 46-47. - Trudi Schoops Manager about Trudi Schoop.
  • Volker Kühn:  Schoop, Trudi. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 468 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Peggy Mitchell; Trudy Schoop: Won't You Join the Dance: A Dancer's Essay into the Treatment of Psychosis . National Press Books, ISBN 0-87484-229-8
  • Bruno Oetterli: The two lives of Trudi Schoop. In: Music, Dance and Art Therapy , Volume 20, 2009, pages 162–164.
  • Ursula Pellaton: Unmistakable expression of movement: Trudi Schoop . 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. 166-179
  • Carl Seelig : Original characters from the Schoop family. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , 33rd year, 1958, pages 95–110. ( e-Periodica )
  • Mats staff: Trudi Schoop . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , S. 1632. Online: .
  • Karl Toepfer: Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. Berkeley 1997. pp. 199-200, online .

Web links

Commons : Trudi Schoop  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ #Oetterli 2009 , page 162.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Maximilian Schoop's brothers Max Ulrich Schoop and Paul Schoop were well-known technicians and inventors. Max Ulrich Schoop's son was the sculptor Uli Schoop .
  3. ↑ #Schoop 1974 , #Seelig 1958 , page 100.
  4. ↑ #Schoop 1974 , # Kühn 2007.1 .
  5. ↑ #Schoop 2006 .
  6. ↑ Dominik Sackmann: Huldreich Georg Früh. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 14, 2005 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Schweizer Illustrierte 1938: Trudi Schoop. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ 1936 American tour
  9. ↑ Jochen Schmidt: Grammophonically. On the death of dance therapist Trudy Schoop , in FAZ of July 30, 1999, p. 46.
  10. ↑ Patrizia Pallaro: Authentic Movement: Moving the Body, Moving the Self, Being Moved: A Collection of Essays - Volume Two . Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London 2007, ISBN 1-84642-586-7 , pp. 33 ( google.de [accessed October 31, 2017]).
  11. ^ German Society for Dance Therapy
  12. ↑ IMDb .
  13. ↑ IMDb .
  14. ↑ The film "shows the work of the 88-year-old dance therapist Trudi Schoop with long-term patients in the psychiatry in Münsterlingen (Switzerland)". See Willke Filmproduktion .
  15. ↑ Trude Schoop tells "about herself and her work in psychiatry, about her experiences with normal and crazy people, about views and insights of her long life, in which human expression is always the focus." See Willke Filmproduktion .
  16. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , pages 101-102., #Bx. 1959 .
  17. ↑ #Seelig 1958 , page 104.
  18. ↑ #Bx. 1959 .
personal data
SURNAME Schoop, Trudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoop, Trudy; Schoop-Wickihalder, Trudi (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss dancer, dance therapist and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1999
Place of death Van Nuys , California