Yvette Kolb

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Yvette Kolb (born June 22, 1942 in Basel ) is a Swiss actress , writer and former ballet dancer .

Life

Yvette Kolb received her dance training from 1950 at the ballet school of the Stadttheater Basel . There she made her debut in 1957 in the Swan Lake by Peter Tschaikowsky under the direction of Wazlaw Orlikowsky . Kolb danced the title roles in Igor Stravinsky's Firebird and Giselle , she had other roles in La Valse by Maurice Ravel , Stravinsky's Petruschka and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty , and she also performed solo roles with the German TV Ballet .

A foot injury forced Kolb to give up her job, she then trained as an actress by Marlise Ludwig and played mostly in touring theaters, for example the title roles in Henrik Ibsen’s Nora or A Doll's House and Mourning Must Wear Electra by Eugene O'Neill . Between 1973 and 1975 she made guest appearances at the Berner Atelier-Theater, since 1988 she has been a member of the ensemble of the Theater Fauteuil in Basel.

Yvette Kolb is also active as a writer and writes poems, lyrics for musicals and translates plays in dialect versions. She penned the two-woman play The Erotic Rollmops , created in 1998 , which she staged and in which she took on one of the two roles. For many years she also accompanied the Israeli writer and satirist Ephraim Kishon on his tours and read his texts there in German. Kolb wrote the lyrics for the musical version of Kishon's play It Was the Lerche .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ursula Pellaton: Yvette Kolb . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1016.
  2. ^ Biography at Münsterverlag , accessed on April 19, 2017
  3. piece description on the website of the Central Musical , accessed on April 19, 2017