Ulli Weiss

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Ulli Weiss (* 1943 in Bonn ; † July 5, 2014 in Wuppertal ) was a German photographer and longstanding artistic companion of the Wuppertal Pina Bausch dance theater .

Life

Ulli Weiss initially worked for several years as an employee for Deutsche Lufthansa AG in Bonn and Munich. In 1969/70 she went to the Folkwang University of Design in Essen as Otto Steinert's assistant . From 1971 to 1976 she studied photography and photojournalism with Steinert . During her studies she met the choreographer Pina Bausch (1940–2009) and has been friends with her ever since.

After graduating from Folkwang University, she worked as a freelance photographer, and began and completed a degree in theater studies and German studies. From 1976, at the beginning of dance theater , she took up rehearsals and performances by Pina Bausch's ensemble, which she continued until the end of her life. At that time, Weiss was the only photographer Bausch allowed to join the ensemble. Bausch included Weiss in the circle of the ensemble's closest employees and with her shaped the public image of the dance theater.

Weiss lived and worked in Wuppertal, where she died in July 2014 at the age of 71. In the obituary of the Wuppertal Pina Bausch dance theater it says:

“... that's why she had the right view of Pina Bausch's work from the start: reserved and precise at the same time. She knew how to capture both the aesthetics of dance theater and its emotionality, also in motion. The staging of her own perspective never dominated, rather she tried to open up the pieces from within. "

- Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and Pina Bausch Foundation , 2014.

Awards

Act

Weiss' works are included in public and private collections. Her photographs have helped design books, catalogs, posters and exhibitions at home and abroad.

Exhibitions

  • 2006: Isadora Duncan, Pina Bausch. Danza dell'anima. Liberazione del Corpo. Refettorio delle Stelline gallery in Milan, Skira Editore catalog, Milan
  • 2007: Pina Bausch, la danza dell`anima. Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascati

Works

  • Sit down and smile. Dance theater by Pina Bausch. Photographs by Ulli Weiss, text: Ille Chamier. Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-922009-20 .
  • with Raimund Hoghe : Bandoneon - What can tango all be good for? Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1981.
    Bandonéon. À quoi bon danser le tango? Autour de la pièce de Pina Bausch. Translated by Anne Monfort, Random House, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-2-85181-800-3 .
  • with Raimund Hoghe: Pina Bausch: Tanztheatergeschichten. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1986, 4th edition 1995, ISBN 3-518-37837-6 .
  • Pina-Baushu-tantsuteatā-to-tomo-ni. Sangensha, Tōkyō 1999, ISBN 4-88303-058-X .
  • Pina Bausch, Wuppertal Dance Theater. Edition Performing Arts Review Taipei, Taiwan 2007, illustrated book
  • Peter Pabst, set designer. Works for Pina Bausch and the Tanztheater Wuppertal 1980 - 2009. Published by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch GmbH, Kettler, Bönen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86206-046-7 , illustrated book.
  • with Anne Linsel : dance dreams. Young people dance at Pina Bausch's Kontakthof. The book about the film. Nacke, Wuppertal 2011, ISBN 978-3-942043-81-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pina Bausch photographer Ulli Weiss has died. ( Memento from July 12, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: WDR , July 10, 2014.
      dpa : Pina Bausch photographer Ulli Weiss dies. In: Die Welt , July 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary - On the death of Ulli Weiss. In: Pina Bausch Foundation , accessed October 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ulli Weiss, photographer on the art portal of Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal , accessed on October 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Anne Grages: Mourning for Pinas photographer Ulli Weiss. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , July 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation , accessed on October 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Ulli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 2014
Place of death Wuppertal