Personal documents and mementoes, c1920-1986

Component identifier:

Series 13

Content Summary:

This series of personal documents and mementoes includes photographs of Bodenwieser, contracts and certificates, notes for rehearsals and articles and documents referring to Bodenwieser's husband Friedrich Rosenthal.

The series also includes letters from Bodenwieser to Emmy Towsey, Hermann Bahr, Werner Baer and Dorothy Helmrich, as well as letters from Sir Eugene Goossens, Carlos Hecht and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Cuckson and Towsey's catalogue of the collection includes a detailed listing of these items.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Following Gertrud Bodenwieser's death in 1959, papers documenting her extensive career as a dancer, choreographer and teacher were left in the custody of Marie Cuckson. Together with Emmy Towsey, Cuckson arranged and added to the collection, through donations of memoirs, costume designs and other material from Bodenwieser's friends and associates. In August 1998 the collection was donated to the Library by Cuckson and her daughter Barbara Cuckson. Part of this collection was also sent to the National Film and Sound Archive.

Subjects:

Performing arts

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