Frank-Manuel Peter

Frank-Manuel Peter in the performance Monuments Man (I) in Schloss Freudenthal [de] (2019).

Frank-Manuel Peter (born 1959) is a German dance researcher and historian.

Life and work

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Born in Berlin, Peter studied theatre, history of art, German studies and library science at the Free University of Berlin and graduated as a master's degree. In 2004, he was promoted to Ph.D. with a thesis on Dore Hoyer.

Peter has been director of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln since 1986. He has been a lecturer since 2005 and an honorary professor for the dance studies programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln since 2012.[1]

He is in charge of the book series Studien und Dokumente zur Tanzwissenschaft published by the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, with Walter Salmen and from volume 8 onwards with Gabriele Busch-Salmen the series Terpsichore - Tanzhistorische Studien and the Bibliographie deutschsprachiger Hochschulschriften zur Tanzwissenschaft/Tanzforschung.[2]

Peter is a member of the advisory board of the Alexander and Renata Camaro foundation.[3]

Publications

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  • Valeska Gert. Tänzerin, Schauspielerin, Kabarettistin. With a foreword by Volker Schlöndorff. Frölich und Kaufmann, Berlin 1985; ISBN 3-88725-196-2
    2nd edition: Hentrich, Berlin 1987; ISBN 3-926175-31-1
  • with Hedwig Müller & Garnet Schuldt: Dore Hoyer. Tänzerin. Hentrich, Berlin 1992; ISBN 3-89468-012-1
  • Zwischen Ausdruckstanz und Postmodern Dance. Dore Hoyers Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung des modernen Tanzes in den 1930er Jahren. Dissertation. Freie Universität Berlin 2004 (Online-Zugang).
  • Das Berliner Hansaviertel and the Interbau 1957. Sutton, Erfurt 2007; ISBN 978-3-86680-151-6
  • (co-author): Musikstadt Köln. Geschichte und Gegenwart. Dohr, Cologne 2013; ISBN 978-3-86846-110-7
  • Der Maler/The Painter Ernst Oppler. Berliner Secession & Russisches Ballett/The Berlin Secession & The Russian Ballet. Wienand, Cologne 2017; ISBN 978-3-86832-391-7

Editorship:

He is for the "Deutsche Tanzarchiv Köln" editor or co-editor of monographs by other authors on Kurt Jooss, Oda Schottmüller, Hanna Berger, Alexander von Swaine, and Gret Palucca, as well as three CD-ROMs.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Frank-Manuel Peter, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln" website]; retrieved 10 June 2021.
  2. ^ Bibliographie deutschsprachiger Hochschulschriften zur Tanzwissenschaft/Tanzforschung; retrieved 10 June 2021.
  3. ^ Impressum on the website of the Camaro Stiftung, retrieved 10 June 2021.
  4. ^ Publications of the Deutschen Tanzarchivs; retrieved 10 June 2021.
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