Jutta Deutschland
Jutta Angelika Deutschland (born 20 March 1958) is a German ballet dancer and choreographer. She became a prima ballerina during her many years with Berlin's Komische Oper.
Biography
[edit]Born in East Germany's Bad Freienwalde, when she was only 10 years old Deutschland began her training at the State Ballet School in East Berlin.[1] She continued her studies at the Ballet Academy in St Petersburg and at the Bolshoi Academy in Moscow.[2] In 1975, she joined Berlin's Komische Oper, earning the title of prima ballerina in 1986, one of only six in Germany since 1945.[3] In 1999, she founded her own ballet school in Berlin, Ballettcompagnie Deutschland, with about a hundred students.[1] In 1997, she left the Comic Opera to open her own "Event Design" agency.[4]
In 2009, Deutschland choreographed a figure-skating routine for Stefanie Frohberg and Tim Giesen when the award-winning pair began to dance together early in the year.[2][5]
Film
[edit]Jutta Deutschland has also appeared in television films and series including Ein verhängnisvoller Verdacht (1991) under the Polizeiruf 110 series, Der kleine Herr Friedemann (1990), and Die erste Reihe (1987).[6] Whilst she was an East German prima ballerina she starred in an hour-long documentary that was written by Helga Schubert and directed by Petra Wirbatz. Wir brauchen eine Blume (We Need a Flower) was a story about being a prima ballerina but it was not a biography and it was narrated by Corinna Harfouch.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Abini Zöllner (8 June 2000). "Das Müssen wollen". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Frohberg/Giesen festigen ihre Position in der Eistanz-Weltspitze!" (PDF) (in German). Neusser Schlittschuh-Klub. 3 October 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ GDR Review. Verlag Zeit im Bild. 1987.
- ^ "Sind Ost-Frauen anders?author=Martina Rellin" (in German). Berliner Kurier. 14 March 2004. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ Barry Mittan (5 October 2009). "Great Start for Germany's Frohberg and Giesen". Skate Today. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ "Jutta Deutschland". IMDb (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ O'Sickey, ed. by Ingeborg Majer; Zadow, Ingeborg von (1998). Triangulated visions : women in recent German cinema. Albany: State university of New York press. p. 202. ISBN 0791437183.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help)
Literature
[edit]- Rellin, Martina, Klar bin ich eine Ostfrau, Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
