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Katja Wulff | |
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 Drawing of Wulff after a historic photograph[1] | |
| Born | 31 August 1890 |
| Died | 11 June 1992 (aged 101) Basel, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German, Swiss |
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| Spouse | Charles Ferdinand Vaucher (1939-1947; divorced) |
Katja Wulff, also Käthe Wulff, (31 August 1890 − 11 June 1992) was a German-Swiss expressionist dancer (Ausdruckstänzerin) and dance instructor. She attended Rudolf von Laban's dance classes and became associated with the Dada movement. She ran a dance school and was still teaching there at the age of 90.
Life and career
Born in Hamburg,[2][3] Wulff was educated as a teacher of drawing and gymnastics (turnen) from 1912 to 1915. From 1913/14, she took dance lessons with Gertrud Falke, and also attended a 1914 summer class on Monte Verità with Rudolf von Laban, dance theoreticist and pioneer of modern dance.[2] She moved to Zurich in 1916, and studied for three years with Laban and Mary Wigman.[2] She graduated in 1918 with a Diploma of Pedagogy in tänzerisches Turnen und Kunsttanz ("acrobatic dance and expressionist dance"). She founded, together with Suzanne Perrottet, a school for Eurythmy. She worked for three years at the Amalfi coast and Capri.[citation needed]
In 1923, Wulff founded a school of Ausdruckstanz in Basel where she still taught at the age of 90.[2] She directed a dance company, Tanzstudio Wulff, from 1926, with Mariette von Meyenburg as choreographer. They collaborated with Paul Sacher, Max Bill, Max Sulzbachner and Meret Oppenheim.[2] She had contact with Dada artists sch as Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.[4] She performed at the Tänzerkongresse in Germany from 1928 to 1930,[2] and in 1939 at the Landesausstellung (Landi, state exhibition).[2]
In 1936, Wulff became a Swiss citizen.[2] She married Charles Ferdinand Vaucher, a dancer, actor and stage director from Basel, in 1937. They were divorced in 1947.[2] Wulff died at age 102[2] in the Felix Platter Spital in Basel.
Her legacy (Nachlass) is held by the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln.[2][5]
Literature
- Vera Isler: Schaut uns an: Porträts von Menschen über Achtzig. Birkhäuser, Basel 1986, ISBN 3-0348-6530-9 ([1], p. PA92, at Google Books).
- Frank-Manuel Peter: "Falls Sie geneigt sind zu kommen..." Käthe (Katja) Wulff zum 100. Geburtstag. In: Tanzdrama, Magazin. No. 12, 3rd quarter 1990, p. 18–22.
- Bettina Zeugin: Katja Wulff. published by IG Tanz Basel. Zwischen-Raum-Verlag, Basel 2001.
References
- ^ Tanzende am Lago Maggiore bei Ascona (1914 photo) kunsthaus.ch
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Pellaton, Ursula. "Wulff, Katja" (in German). Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ Pellaton, Ursula (2005). "Katja Wulff". Theaterlexikon Schweiz (in German). Vol. 3. Zürich: Chronos. p. 2123. ISBN 9783034007153. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ "Projekte 2014 / Monte DADA". tanzpreise.ch (in German). Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Nachlässe und Sammlungen, Wulff, Katja (1890-1992)". Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln. Cologne. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
External links
- Literature by and about Katja Wulff in the German National Library catalogue
- Porträtfoto von Katja Wulff
- Katja Wulff theaterwissenschaft.ch
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