Harald Kreutzberg
Harald Kreutzberg ( born December 11, 1902 in Reichenberg, † April 25, 1968 in Muri bei Bern ) was a German dancer, choreographer, and film actor.
Life
Harald Kreutzberg - son of a grown up in Germany US- American from Pennsylvania - received as a child ballet lessons and joined in 1908, at the age of six years, the praise of theater in Breslau.
Following the visit to the secondary school located Kreutzberg was trained at the School of Applied Arts in Dresden for a graphic artist and illustrator. Parallel to the training, he took ballet lessons in a group of lay at the Mary Wigman Dance School, among others Berthe Trumpy, where his extraordinary talent and creativity dance stood out. In 1922 he graduated from the graduating class of 1923 and went to the Opernhaus Hannover, where he performed as a soloist and with many of their own choreography.
In 1924 Kreutzberg together with Max Terpis the Berlin State Opera. Here he was discovered by Max Reinhardt, who signed him in 1926 for the Salzburg Festival. Following the Festival Harald Kreutzberg undertook together with Yvonne Georgi to a first successful tour in the United States. Further appearances in the United States made Kreutzberg as a figurehead of the German Dance world famous. In 1934 he went with the American dancer Ruth Page on a world tour through Hawaii, Japan, Shanghai to Vladivostok. From there, the dancers returned with the Trans-Siberian railway back to Vienna and Berlin.
Kreutzberg continued his career as an artist during the Nazi era without interruption. Even completely apolitical, Kreutzberg could be used by the Nazis as a figurehead for the German cultural life and became one of the most honored and best-paid artists of Nazi Germany. He made numerous guest appearances in spite of the war in Europe and the USA, where he also taught at universities. In Germany, he participated in several feature films, as in the 1943 film produced Paracelsus directed by GW Pabst. 1941 Kreutzberg was appointed head of the State Academy of Dance Arts in Vienna.
After 1945 Kreutzberg was able to continue his career as a dancer. In 1955 he founded his own dance school in Berne. In 1959 he gave his farewell stint with Willy Maertens in Hamburg's Thalia Theatre, where he once again demonstrated his artistic and dancing skills.
Harald Kreutz 's works is preserved in the German Dance Archive Cologne.
Honors
Publications
- Bauer Ball Calendar Bimmelbach 1921. 15 woodcuts. Published by the Academy of Applied Arts. Rau, Dresden 1920.
- About myself Hammann, Detmold 1938.