WPhilippine "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.
WEry 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.
WSonja Bragowa, born Gertrud Elsa Knieser, was a German expressionist dancer, revue dancer and solo dancer.
WUrsula Cain was a German dancer and dance teacher.
WMarlene 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.
WClotilde 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.
WHertha 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.
WHelene 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".
WTina 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.
WValeska 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.
WEleanor 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".
WGrit 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.
WHeike Hennig is a German dancer, choreographer and director of the opera and dance ensemble "Heike Hennig & Co".
WDore 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."
WAlice 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.
WTiger Kirchharz is a dancer, choreographer and actress.
WLa Jana was an Austro-German dancer and actress.
WGertrud Leistikow was a German dancer and choreographer. She is primarily associated with nude and grotesque dances.
WGret 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.
WLieselotte ″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.
WHelene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, actress, photographer and Nazi sympathizer.
WPaula Riemann, also known as "Paula Romy", is a German filmmaker and choreographer from Berlin, living in London.
WMarika 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.
WRahel Sanzara was a German dancer, actress and novelist.
WErna Schilling was a German nightclub dancer and artist's model.
WBessie 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.
WEllen Schwanneke (1906–1972) was a German dancer and stage and film actress.
WVera Skoronel, born Vera Laemmel, was a Swiss-born German dancer and choreographer.
WMaria "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.
WErika Thimey was a German dancer and dance educator, based for most of her career in Washington, D.C.
WGreta Wrage von Pustau was a Chinese-born German dancer and dance teacher.
WSasha 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.
WMary 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.
WMarianne Winkelstern (1910–1966) was a German dancer and actress. She retired and settled in Britain after marrying an Englishman.
WKatja 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.