Ursula Kübler

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Ursula Vian-Kübler (born September 6, 1928 in Zurich ; † January 18, 2010 in Eus , Département Pyrénées-Orientales ) was a Swiss ballet dancer , actress and choreographer .

biography

Ursula Kübler was the youngest daughter of the writer Arnold Kübler and the Swede Eva alias Alva Jessen-Kübler (1887–1965).

Since Kübler was a small child, she wanted to be a dancer. Your first dance teacher was Mario Volkart (1897–1982). At the age of sixteen she danced for the first time on the stage of the Zurich City Theater . After two years at the Municipal Theater, she moved to Paris , where she met Maurice Béjart . There she danced in his first choreographies and went on her first tour to the still occupied Germany with his Debussy and Ravel programs . In 1949 Roland Petit engaged her for the Ballet de Paris at the Marigny Theater. With him Kübler went on a European and American tour. Back in Paris she met Boris Vian in 1950 , whom she married in 1954. They lived together in a two-room apartment in the Cité Veron behind the Moulin Rouge .

Under Vian's influence, she took classes in jazz dance, acrobatics and acting in addition to her ballet training. She founded Les Ballets Ho with the dancer and choreographer Georg Frank Reich (1926–2013) . After a series of performances at the Olympia Theater and the Moulin Rouge , they went on tour through France, Italy and Spain.

Because of Vian's poor health, Kübler left the ballet Ho after the tour and, apart from her first film role in the film Le bel Âge , did not accept any engagement from Pierre Kast . So she could take care of her husband more. After his death she was hired by the Zurich City Theater for the role of Lulu . Two more films, Natercia and La morte Saison des Amours by Pierre Kast, followed. Back in Paris she brought Béjart back to the stage and had her sing the role of Anna in the Seven Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in the Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels . Her stage partner was Janine Charrat .

Other film roles followed. Kübler played the role of Carla , the wife of Fabio Rinaldi , played by Marcello Mastroianni in Louis Male's film Vie Privée . As a film actress she also worked with Agnès Varda and Roger Vadim , among others .

After the death of her mother, Kübler traveled to Sardinia with her father in 1965 , where she became friends with the dancer M. d'Déé. In Sardinia she staged a cabaret program written by her father .

Kübler came to Eus for the first time in 1965 . The record producer Jacques Canetti , Elias Canetti's brother , bought the abandoned building ruins there in rows and gave one of them to Kübler. Kübler and M. d'Déé founded the Boris Vian Foundation there in 1978 and organized the first major Vian retrospective at the Center Georges-Pompidou . They shared the income with the two children from Vian's first marriage. Since neither Vian's children nor his first wife took care of his estate, this task became Kübler's main concern. Until her death, Kübler organized a music festival in Eus every year.

Kübler loved the theater, which included everything: singing, dancing and acting. She staged her own plays and songs for Les Djinns , among others , with a vocal group from the French radio singing school. In 1971, Kübler signed the Manifesto of 343 , a French petition signed by 343 women who had performed an abortion .

Kübler lived in Zurich, Paris and Eus until 1983; after that she lived in the Pyrenees .

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  1. ↑ Susanna Heimgartner: Ursula Vian-Kübler - Encounter in the Pyrenees. In: You . March 1991, Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kübler, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vian-Kübler, Ursula (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ballet dancer, actress and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2010
Place of death Eus , Pyrénées-Orientales department