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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] .
Valeska Gert; gebürtig Gertrud Valesca Samosch, war eine deutsche moderne Tänzerin, Schauspielerin und Pantomimin, die auch als Kabarettistin und Kabarett-Betreiberin tätig war. „Sie war eine der erfolgreichsten, aber auch umstrittensten Grotesktänzerinnen der zwanziger Jahre.“
Valeska Gert is dying. On top of a brightly lit platform, she stands motionless in a long black dress. Slowly, she stretches, struggling, hands becoming fists, shoulders hunching, face twisting...
Jul 18, 2019 · Learn about Valeska Gert, a rebellious and subversive dancer and actor who challenged bourgeois conventions and created anti-dance performances in the 1920s. Discover how she influenced Bertolt Brecht, Fellini, Fassbinder, and punk culture.
Valeska Gert was a German actress who starred in silent and sound films, such as The Threepenny Opera and Ein Sommernachtstraum. She was born in 1892 in Berlin and died in 1978 in Kampen, Germany.
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- Kampen, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Sep 23, 2010 · 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.
