Hertha Feist

Hertha Feist ( born June 18, 1896 in Berlin, † July 9, 1990 in Hannover) was a German dancer and choreographer.

After training Mensendieck - educator, she studied with Rudolf Bode gymnastics and dance with Olga Desmond and Rudolf von Laban. Feist was one of Laban's dance group, was his assistant in 1922 and opened in 1923 in Berlin- Hallensee a school for dance and gymnastics, where she taught body -accentuating movement theory in the sense of Laban.

In 1925, she appeared with the Berlin headed by her movement choirs Laban also a soloist, for example, in Agamemnon's death, just as in 1926, together with their master and the Berlin Hertha Feist Labangruppe in his Don Juan and organized in 1926 her first dance evening. They created their own " dance seals " of which 1928 The appeal which was most famous, and led his own chamber dance group Hertha Feist, who also took part in the theater and in film. So this 1926 occurred, for example, in costumes of Lotte Pritzel and music by Klaus Pringsheim in Anja and Esther Klaus Mann and was in 1929 simultaneously premiered by the November Group at the Gloria Palace Cinema on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and in New York and Paris movie hands (Stella F. Simon / Miklos Bandy ) to see. Supported by Carl Diem Hertha Feist had also taken over the dance education of the student athletes at the German College of Physical Education in Berlin in 1924. At the University their primary concern was the integration of dance in the sports studies. Hertha Feist taught last from 1952 to 1965 at the Community College Hanover.

Her students of the 1920s were later known as the choreographer Aurel von Milloss who with their group of students, among other things 1927 The Puppenfee rehearsed, and 1922 with Laban in Gleschendorf the later solo dancers Laura Austria and Lucie pebble Hausen. Her estate is located in the German Dance Archive Cologne.