Pina BauschW
Pina Bausch

Philippine "Pina" Bausch was a German dancer and choreographer who, with a blend of movement, sound, and prominent stage sets, and with performers during the development of a piece, became an influence in the field of modern dance from the 1970s on. She continued the European and American Expressionist movements in dance with modernist works in the highly dramatic mode of modern dance theatre dealing with psychological trauma arising from relationships. She created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, which performs internationally.

Ery BosW
Ery Bos

Ery Bos was a German dancer and film actress. She established herself as a star in the cinema of the Weimar Republic, but was forced to flee following the takeover of the Nazi Party due to her Jewish background.

Sonja BragowaW
Sonja Bragowa

Sonja Bragowa, born Gertrud Elsa Knieser, was a German expressionist dancer, revue dancer and solo dancer.

Ursula CainW
Ursula Cain

Ursula Cain was a German dancer and dance teacher.

Marlene CharellW
Marlene Charell

Marlene Charell is a German entertainer and was the leading dancer and superstar at Le Lido in Paris from 1968 until the end of 1970. Her stage name is an amalgamation of the entertainers Marlene Dietrich and Erik Charell.

Clotilde von DerpW
Clotilde von Derp

Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz, known professionally as Clotilde von Derp, was a German expressionist dancer, an early exponent of modern dance. Her career was spent essentially dancing together with her husband Alexander Sakharoff with whom she enjoyed a long-lasting relationship.

Hertha FeistW
Hertha Feist

Hertha Feist (1896–1990) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer. She established her own school in Berlin, combining gymnastics with nudism and dance. In the 1930s, her ambitions were seriously curtailed by the Nazis.

Helene FischerW
Helene Fischer

Helene Fischer is a German singer, dancer, entertainer, television presenter, and actress. Since her debut in 2005 she has won numerous awards, including seventeen Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards and three Bambi awards. According to record certifications she has sold at least 15 million records. In June 2014, her multi platinum 2013 album Farbenspiel became the most illegally-downloaded album ever by a German artist and is currently the sixth-bestselling album of all time in Germany. Her signature song "Atemlos durch die Nacht" was the bestselling song in Germany in 2014. She has had the best-selling album of the year in Germany five times, in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. She ranked #8 on Forbes list of The World's Highest-Paid Women In Music 2018, earning 32 million dollars. Fischer has been referred to as the "Queen of Schlager".

Tina FladeW
Tina Flade

Tina Flade, born Albertine Flade, and later known as Tina Flade Mooney, was a German modern dancer. From 1934 to 1938, she taught dance at Mills College in California.

Valeska GertW
Valeska Gert

Valeska Gert was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist and actress. She was a pioneering performance artist who is said to have laid the foundations and paved the way for the punk movement.

Eleanor and Karla GutöhrleinW
Eleanor and Karla Gutöhrlein

Eleanor Helene Emma Gutöhrlein and Karla Gutöhrlein were German-born sisters who danced and acted together in several 1930s films. They were sometimes billed as "The Sisters G".

Grit HegesaW
Grit Hegesa

Grit Hegesa was a German dancer and silent film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, including Ewald André Dupont's Whitechapel. She was born Caroline Margaretha Schmidt.

Heike HennigW
Heike Hennig

Heike Hennig is a German dancer, choreographer and director of the opera and dance ensemble "Heike Hennig & Co".

Dore HoyerW
Dore Hoyer

Dore Hoyer was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer. She is credited as "one of the most important solo dancers of the Ausdruckstanz tradition." Inspired by Mary Wigman, she developed her own solo programmes and toured widely before and after the Second World War. Wigman called Hoyer "Europe's last great modern dancer."

Kessler TwinsW
Kessler Twins

Alice and Ellen Kessler are twins known in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing, and acting. They are usually credited as the Kessler Twins, and remain popular today.

Tiger KirchharzW
Tiger Kirchharz

Tiger Kirchharz is a dancer, choreographer and actress.

La Jana (actress)W
La Jana (actress)

La Jana was an Austro-German dancer and actress.

Gertrud LeistikowW
Gertrud Leistikow

Gertrud Leistikow was a German dancer and choreographer. She is primarily associated with nude and grotesque dances.

Gret PaluccaW
Gret Palucca

Gret Palucca, born Margarethe Paluka, was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925.

Lilo RamdohrW
Lilo Ramdohr

Lieselotte ″Lilo″ Fürst-Ramdohr was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.

Leni RiefenstahlW
Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress, photographer and Nazi sympathizer.

Paula RiemannW
Paula Riemann

Paula Riemann, also known as "Paula Romy", is a German filmmaker and choreographer from Berlin, living in London.

Marika RökkW
Marika Rökk

Marika Rökk was a Hungarian dancer, singer and actress who gained prominence in German films in the Nazi era. She resumed her career in 1947 and was one of Europe's most famous operetta singers, performing onstage until 1986.

Rahel SanzaraW
Rahel Sanzara

Rahel Sanzara was a German dancer, actress and novelist.

Erna SchillingW
Erna Schilling

Erna Schilling was a German nightclub dancer and artist's model.

Bessie SchonbergW
Bessie Schonberg

Bessie Schonberg was a highly influential dancer, choreographer and teacher of the 20th century. She was at the center of contemporary modern dance from her beginning at Bennington College up until her death in 1997. Her career spanned sixty-five years and she helped mold a new generation of modern dancers including Lucinda Childs, Elizabeth Keen, Meredith Monk and Carolyn Adams (dancer).Capturing a sense of the life and work of Bessie Schonberg is possible if one evokes the image of a prism, a multi-face crystalline object which cannot be perceived in its entirety, but can be appreciated and understood by catching glimpses of light from its different sides.

Ellen SchwannekeW
Ellen Schwanneke

Ellen Schwanneke (1906–1972) was a German dancer and stage and film actress.

Vera SkoronelW
Vera Skoronel

Vera Skoronel, born Vera Laemmel, was a Swiss-born German dancer and choreographer.

Ria ThieleW
Ria Thiele

Maria "Ria" Thiele was a German actress, dancer and choreographer who appeared in theatres of European capitals, including the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna and Theater des Westens in Berlin.

Erika ThimeyW
Erika Thimey

Erika Thimey was a German dancer and dance educator, based for most of her career in Washington, D.C.

Greta Wrage von PustauW
Greta Wrage von Pustau

Greta Wrage von Pustau was a Chinese-born German dancer and dance teacher.

Sasha WaltzW
Sasha Waltz

Sasha Alexandra Waltz is a German choreographer, dancer, leader of the dance company Sasha Waltz and Guests, and artistic director designate of the Berlin State Ballet, alongside Johannes Ohman, effective 2019.

Mary WigmanW
Mary Wigman

Mary Wigman was a German dancer and choreographer, notable as the pioneer of expressionist dance, dance therapy, and movement training without pointe shoes. She is considered one of the most important figures in the history of modern dance. She became one of the most iconic figures of Weimar German culture and her work was hailed for bringing the deepest of existential experiences to the stage.

Marianne WinkelsternW
Marianne Winkelstern

Marianne Winkelstern (1910–1966) was a German dancer and actress. She retired and settled in Britain after marrying an Englishman.

Katja WulffW
Katja Wulff

Katja Wulff, also Käthe Wulff,, was a German-Swiss expressionist dancer (Ausdruckstänzerin) and dance instructor. She attended Rudolf von Laban's dance classes and became associated with the Dada movement. She ran a dance school and was still teaching there at the age of 90.