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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. She was the eldest daughter of manufacturer Theodor Samosch and Augusta Rosenthal. [1] .
Jan 11, 2018 · Today Valeska Gert tends to be identified as a “dance performance artist” because she used her body to tell socially critical stories in what seemed like bizarre or grotesque ways, and was...
Jul 18, 2019 · 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, but Gert did not move.
Film buffs likely remember Valeska Gert for her role as the headmistress of a reform school in the 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl. She is the curious-looking disciplinarian who bangs a gong as the girls exercise to her orgiastic rhythm.
Sep 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.
Valeska Gert, who was born in Berlin in 1892 and died in 1978, has been called “Germany’s forgotten performer.” A “renegade” artist in her heyday she was known for her frenzied body movements, grotesque facial movements, ferocious voice and dramatic self-designed costumes. Some claim that she helped inspire the punk movement of the 1980s.
Overview (3) Mini Bio (1) Valeska Gert was born on January 11, 1892 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The 3 Penny Opera (1931), Ein Sommernachtstraum (1925) and Coup de Grâce (1976). She was previously married to Robin Hay Anderson and Helmuth von Krause. She died on March 15, 1978 in Kampen, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
