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Jan 11, 2018 · On her 126th birthday, measuring the influence of the incomparable ‘dance performance artist’ who inspired entertainers from German Expressionism through to 1980s punk. Valeska Gert is dying ...
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 ...
Wolfgang Müller Valeska Gert. Ästhetik der Präsenzen, written by the founder of the West-Berlin performance group Die Tödliche Doris about the relations between the performances/art of the Proto-Punk Valeska Gert to the Post-Punk scene, Berlin 2010. Secondary literature, Monographs mentioning Valeska Gert. Valeska Gert's bold new style of ...
A recent article on Deutsche Welle, "Germany's forgotten performer Valeska Gert helped inspire punk," discusses the new book and first ever gallery exhibit. The biography, which is described as definitive, is by Wolfgang Mueller, himself a conceptual artist with an international reputation.
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. She stood motionless in a slightly contrived awkward position and stared off into the distance. The audience grew restless.
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”.
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Nov 4, 2022 · Portrait of Valeska Gert in 1929 by Jeanne Mammen. So ahead of her time and outright badass was Valeska Gert’s approach to performance art, that when she danced coitus onstage in the 1920s, a shell-shocked audience called the police. In a characteristically short impact performance piece, Der Tod (The Death), she performed her own death to a ...
