About Wolfgang Martin Schede
Lived 1898 – 1975 (aged 76). Wolfgang Martin Schede was a German writer, choreographer, photographer, director, artist and dancer.
Wolfgang Martin Schede (11 May 1898 – 4 January 1975) was a German writer, dancer, actor, choreographer, artist and photographer. He was credited with being for men's expressionist dance what Mary Wigman was for women's dance. After the experiment of running an expressionist theatre in Cologne, he founded a dance school there in 1923, and worked at the Theater Dessau from 1925. After World War II, he turned to writing, art and photography.
Life Born in Stuttgart, Schede wrote a biography of Max Terpis, Farbenspiel des Lebens. Max Pfister Terpis. Architekt Tänzer Psychologe 1889–1958, published in 1960.
Schede was a prolific writer of educational radio plays for in Switzerland and Germany, including radio dramas, staged readings and literary adaptations.
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Who was Wolfgang Martin Schede?
German author (1898-1975)
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Wolfgang Martin Schede was born on 11 May 1898 in Stuttgart.
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Wolfgang Martin Schede died on 4 January 1975 in Bodman-Ludwigshafen.
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Wolfgang Martin Schede was a writer, choreographer, photographer, director, artist and dancer.
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Wolfgang Martin Schede was German.
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