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Articles about Laban

Box 2

Folder 12

Joseph Meisenbach ‘The Deeper Meaning of Rudolf Laban’. Carbon copy, handwritten corrections, five numbered pages. Original

Das Urheberschutzgesetz für Tanzkompositionen, Susanne Kabitz, Berlin-Wannsee, im Juli 1937. 2 photocopied pages of typescript with added handwritten notes.

Käfer im Früling 1. Bild, 2. Bild, 3. Bild, 4.Bild. Carbon copy, 2 pages. [It looks like a treatment for a film or stage piece. 

Von Rudolf Laban, dem grossen Anreger in den “goldenen zwanziger Jahren”, berichtet Vilma Mönkeber-Kollmar, Hamburg. Photocopy of a typescript, 10 numbered pages.

Susanne Krabitz Erinnerung aus den Jahren 1920 – 1928 [Memories of the Years 1920 – 1928] Photocopy of a typescript. 11 unnumbered pages. [An account of her time dancing with Laban. The words on the right margin have not been fully photocopied. Looks most interesting.] 

Memories of Rudolf von Laban. By Rudolf Sonner. Photocopy of a typescript. 3 unnumbered pages. [The words on the right margin have not been fully photocopied.]

‘Rudolf v. Laban and the New German Dance.’ Rudolf Sonner. Photocopy of a typescript. 11 unnumbered pages. [The words on the right margin have not been fully photocopied.]

Elisabeth Lang – El.Corret gennant über R. von Laban. Photocopy of a typescript. 11 unnumbered pages. [The words on the right margin have not been fully photocopied.]

Elinor Warsitz-Kennegiesser. Photocopy of a typescript. 3 unnumbered pages. [The words on the right margin have not been fully photocopied.] Signed and dated ‘München, im Juni 1965’.

Document titled Kunst und Wissenschaft, Rudolf von Laban in Kattowitz. 1 page typescript. [Difficult to know what this is. A transcript of a conversation about Laban’s visit?]

Remembering Laban. Erika Milee. Photocopy of a typescript. 11 unnumbered pages. 

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Folder 27

Item 11. Article by Heinrich Eduard Jacob on Laban’s 1929 Vienna Parade of Crafts and Trades

Item 11. Article by Suzanne Krabiz on Laban’s 1935 four-week holiday course in Berlin-Rangsdorf (2 copies) [c.f. her reminiscences of Laban in Box 2, Folder 12]

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Item 5.  Articles about Laban by von Schlee, Gleisner and Lewitan, Der Tanz Heft 14, 1929 

Item 6.    ‘Essen celebrates Laban’s 50th Birthday’ by Dr Rich. Litterscheid in Der Tanz H.2 sg.III, 1930

Item 7.    Laban at the peak of the State Opera Ballets, J.Lewitan, Der Tanz, sg III, Heft 5, 1930

Item 8.    ‘On the change in Ballet Masters at the Berlin Opera’ in Der Tanz sg III, Heft 8, 1934

Item 8. Male, Female and Cult Dance – on Laban’s Festkultur in Der Tanz, Heft 6, June 1936, pp. 1 – 4

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Item 15. Article by Fritz Böhme about Laban undated Original

Item 16. Article about Laban by Dr Buchholy ‘1930/31’ – when Laban was at the Stadtsoper Original

Item 17. Article by Alfred Schlee ‘Der Fall Laban’ (The Case of Laban) November 1932 Original

Item 18. Double page article in German, Schweizer Illustrierte 06 02 1954, with very good photos of Laban at the AMS in Addlestone  Original

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Item 3. Totenmal und Tanz, Hans Brandenburg, 1 page

Item 4. The management of the German society for dance script, Martin Gleisner (same publication as above?)

Item 11. Article by Imrgard Thomas on Ballet as Educator, 1 page

Item 12. Article by Fritz Böhme on Dance Theatre, 1 page

Item 20. Article about Laban in Hamburg by Gustav Grund

Item 21. ‘Scapegoat Laban, article by Lewitan about Laban in Staatsoper in Der Tanz, May 1931, Heft 5

Item 22.  School for Dancerly Body Development, Lotte Wedekind, unknown paper pp.15 – 18

Item 26. ‘Five years of choric lay dance’ Hans Steiner-Kaiser, 3 pages

Item 27. Title page for a book about Laban

Item 30. Teaching Choreographic Harmony, an article by Kurt Jooss in Neue Musik-Zeitung, 49 Jahrg, Heft 7, 1928, pp.215 – 225

Item 31. Four Elements of Movement, publication, author and date unknown 

Item 32. The New Dance Art, article by Fritz Zielesch

Item 34. Article (about Essen Dance Congress) by Artur Michel in Die Weltbühne No 30, 24 July 1928 pp.146 - 147

Item 36. Tanzspiel und neuer Tanz, Gustav Grund in Der Schacht which features Wigman and Laban amongst others

Item 37. Berliner Tanzspiegel in Die Deutsche Tanz-Zeitschrift May 1943

Item 38. Press Comment on Narrenspiegel date given 1929

Item 39. Zwischen Willkür und neuen Formen, Franz Born,  12 April 1964

Folder 33

Article by Hugo Ball in the Berner Intelligenzer Blatt 15 November 1917 - original

An article about Laban and ‘Pantomime’ original (4 copies) 1916

Folder 34

Item 16. Article about Laban by Dr Buchholy ‘1930/31’ – when Laban was at the Stadtsoper 

Item 17. Article by Alfred Schlee ‘Der Fall Laban’ (The Case of Laban) November 1932

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Folder 35

Front page feature on the Vienna Festzug Der Morgen, 10 June 1929 Original

Article on page 2 Der Morgen, 10 June 1929 – ‘1,000,000 People in the Festzug’ Original.

Page 5 in Die Stunde 11 June 1929 Original

Page 10 in Die Stunde 11 June 1929 Original

Folder, 62 1 of 2

Item 15. Article by Prof. Max Ackermann, Rudolf von Laban! Man of Europe or of the World? 2 pages, photocopy

Box 13

Folder 152

Offprint from ‘Man of the Month’ October 1954, featuring Laban (and Warren Lamb). Original

Materials presented to Laban on his 75th Birthday’. Photocopy 

Warren Lamb – article on Movement Observation. Photocopy.

F.C Lawrence – ‘Rudolf Laban in Industry’. Photocopy 

Denis Hill – ‘Movement and Therapy’. Photocopy 

Box 14

Folder ‘13’

Item 26:  Press Article about Laban and the Berlin Staatsoper

Box 25

Folder 168

‘Rudolf von Laban’, Wilm Burghardt in Die Schönheit 1926 Rudolf Laban Heft 1. Pp. 4 - 19

‘Zu Den Bewegungschören Rudolf von Labans’, Walter Jacob in Die Schönheit 1926 Rudolf Laban Heft 1. Pp 30 – 41

Arbeitsberichte der Schulen Rudolf von Laban

Box 28

Folder 211

5 page article in German by Hans Brandenburg on Laban. A translation is attached tho’ the English is poor, both in spelling and choice of word. Original

Box 29

Folder 216

Review of The World of the Dancer by Fritz Hanna Winter, in English translation only.

Folder 228

Laban Lecture – 25 page text ‘The Work of Veronica Sherborne’

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