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Sound films. Awards. Bibliography. References. External links. Valeska Gert, Munich, 1918. Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist, actress and pioneering performance artist. Early life and career. Gert was born as Gertrud Valesca Samosch in Berlin to a Jewish family.
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Jan 11, 2018 · The Forgotten World of the Badass Valeska Gert On her 126th birthday, measuring the influence of the incomparable ‘dance performance artist’ who inspired entertainers from German...
Jul 18, 2019 · One evening at a local fleapit in Germany, sometime in the 1920s, a young woman stood on stage while the projectionist changed reels between movies and performed her latest dance called Pause. The woman was Valeska Gert who was well-known for her wild, unpredictable, highly controversial, beautiful yet often grotesque performances. The audience waited expectantly, a few coughs, a few giggles ...
Sep 17, 2010 · 09/17/2010. More than 30 years after her death, admirers pay tribute to one of Germany's most enigmatic - and overlooked - artists, dancer and actress Valeska Gert. She's said to have laid the ...
Oct 19, 2019 · Even at a ripe old age, Valeska Gert inspired young people who rebelled against conventions in their chosen lifestyle or their art. In West Berlin’s alternative art scene of the early 1980s, Gert was still a key reference after her death, influencing the world of punk music through people like Frieder Butzmann and Wolfgang Müller, founder of the band “Die Tödliche Doris”.
Gertrud Valesca Samosch from Berlin studied acting with Maria Moissi and debuted as a dancer in 1916 at an evening presented by Rita Sacchetto’s school with a cheeky, exaggerated “Dance in Orange”. Otto Falckenberg hired her as a young character actress at the Münchner Kammerspiele for the 1916/17 season. To supplement her earnings, she ...
