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Liebe Hanya : Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm / compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman ; introduction by Hedwig Mueller ; letters translated by Marianne Forster and Catherine T. Klingler ; additional translation by Shelley Frisch and Joanna Ratych.
- Title
- Liebe Hanya : Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm / compiled and edited by Claudia Gitelman ; introduction by Hedwig Mueller ; letters translated by Marianne Forster and Catherine T. Klingler ; additional translation by Shelley Frisch and Joanna Ratych.
- Author
- Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Gitelman, Claudia.
- Description
- xxvii, 240 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Mary Wigman's groundbreaking choreography and inspired performances in Germany during the 1910s and 1920s placed modern dance on an equal footing with modern painting, theater, and film. Her disciple Hanya Holm took Wigman's aesthetic philosophy to the United States in 1931, effectively adapting it to the American temperament through her teaching and concert works and as a choreographer of Broadway musicals such as Kiss Me, Kate and My Fair Lady. Written between 1920 and 1971, Wigman's letters to Holm bring to life an unusually durable and productive friendship that began as teacher and student then survived a love triangle, business partnership, and long separation by war and politics. A memorable personal account of a century in turmoil, these missives inject immediacy into discussions of Wigman's work within the Third Reich and cast light on Holm's construction of an American identity. Never before published in any language, these letters, introduced by Hedwig Muller and annotated by Claudia Gitelman, are an untapped resource for historians of twentieth-century culture as well as dance."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Mary Wigman's letters to Hanya Holm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Records and correspondence
- Lettres (Descripteur de forme)
- Biographie (Descripteur de forme)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: A matter of loyalty -- Hanya Holm and Mary Wigman / Hedwig Müller -- MARY WIGMAN'S LETTERS TO HANYA HOLM: 1920-1930: Dresden -- 1930-1931: New York, Dresden -- 1932: United States -- 1932-1935: Dresden -- 1937-1941: Dresden -- 1946-1949: Leipzig -- 1949-1956: Berlin -- 1956-1964: Berlin -- 1965-1971: Berlin -- Appendix 1: Summaries of Letters from Johann GEorg Benkert to Hanya Holm -- Appendix 2: Letters from Mary Wigman and Hanya Holm to Louise Kloepper -- Appendix 3: Letters from Mary Wigman to Pola Nirenska.
- ISBN
- 0299190706
- 0299190749
- LCCN
- ^^2003005657
- OCLC
- 51892531
- SCSB-11222162
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library