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Katja Wulff
Drawing of Wulff after a historic photograph[1]
Born(1890-08-31)31 August 1890
Hamburg, German Empire
Died11 June 1992(1992-06-11) (aged 101)
Basel, Switzerland
NationalityGerman, Swiss
Occupations
SpouseCharles Ferdinand Vaucher (1939-1947; divorced)

Katja Wulff, also Käthe Wulff, (31 August 1890 − 11 June 1992) was a German-Swiss Ausdruckstänzerin (expressionist dancer) and dance instructor. She was influenced in Rudolf von Laban's classes and became associated with the Dada movement. She ran a dance school where she still taught at age 90.

Life and career

Born in Hamburg,[2] Wulff was educated to be a teacher for drawing and turnen, from 1912 to 1915. From 1913/14, she took dance lessons with Gertrud Falke, in a 1914 summer class on Monte Verità also with the dance theoreticist Rudolf von Laban.[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 for pedagogy in tänzerisches Turnen und Kunsttanz. She founded, together with Suzanne Perrottet, a school for Eurythmy. She worked for three years at the Amalfi coast and Capri.

In 1923, Wulff founded a school of Ausdruckstanz in Basel where she still taught at age 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 to Dada artists sch as Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.[3] 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 [de] in Basel.

Her legacy (Nachlass) is held by the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln.[2]

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

  1. ^ Tanzende am Lago Maggiore bei Ascona (1914 photo) kunsthaus.ch
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Projekte 2014 / Monte DADA". tanzpreise.ch (in German). Retrieved 17 April 2019.
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