Valeria Kratina

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Valeria Kratina (born July 12, 1892 in Dresden , † April 23, 1983 in Munich ) was a German dancer , ballet master , choreographer and dance teacher.

life and work

Valeria Kratina studied with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau from 1910 to 1914 , then with Rudolf von Laban , Mary Wigman and Vaslav Veltchek in Paris, among others , had a dance school in Munich from 1915 to 1919 and gave her first dance evening there in 1916. From 1919 to 1925 she taught at the Neue Schule Hellerau, where she started her own dance group and in 1925 she moved the school to Laxenburg near Vienna , where she took over dance training and from where she and her group took on numerous European tours. From 1930 to 1933 she was a ballet master in Breslau, from 1933 to 1937 in Karlsruhe and from 1937 to 1944 in Dresden. Guest productions have taken her to the Kroll Opera in Berlin , the Vienna State Opera and in 1940 to the Deutsche Tanzbühne Berlin ( Till Eulenspiegel , with Harald Kreutzberg , music: Richard Strauss ).

Larger choreographies by her included L'Homme et son desir ( music: Darius Milhaud , 1923), The Wood-Carved Prince (music: Béla Bartók , 1923), The Prodigal Son ( music: Sergei Prokofjew , Breslau 1932), The Devil im Dorf (music: Fran Lhotka , Karlsruhe 1935), The village under the glacier (music: Heinrich Sutermeister , Karlsruhe 1937), Jeu de cartes (music: Igor Stravinsky , European. EA, Dresden 1937), symphonic Kolo (music: Jakov Gotovac , Dresden 1939) and Carmina Burana (music: Carl Orff , Dresden 1940).

Her "dance group Kratina of the school Hellerau" belonged u. a. their students Rosalia Chladek and Alice Uhlen.

Valeria Kratina was photographed by many well-known photographers such as Hugo Erfurth , Hans Robertson , Konrad Weidenbaum, Georg Fayer , Erica Stroedel and Erna Lendvai-Dircksen . It found its way into the visual arts, among other things, in lithographs by Ottheinrich Strohmeyer-Platenius (1919), etchings by Walter Ernst Zeising (1924), paper cuttings by Ernst Moritz Engert and a bust of Karl Albiker, which is now lost . Her estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .

Awards and recognitions

  • 1928: Honorary diploma from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow
  • 1975: A plaque commemorating the Hellerau-Laxenburg school (by mentioning it by name) at the "Old Castle" Laxenburg.
  • 2006: Naming of the Valeria-Kratina-Weg in Hellerau

literature

  • Margot Pötschke: Already history: Valeria Kratina . In: Rhythmics in Education , H. 2/1976, p. 9.
  • Horst Koegler and Helmuth Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Stuttgart, 1984, pp. 251f. ISBN 3-15-010328-2 .
  • Johanna Laakkonen: The unknown Valeria Kratina and her grotesques . In: Andrea Amort (ed.): Everything dances. Cosmos of Viennese dance modernity . KHM Museumsverband, Vienna and Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2019, pp. 112–121, ISBN 978-3-7757-4567-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Websites on the estate in the German Dance Archive Cologne , accessed March 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kratina, Valeria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1983
Place of death Munich