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Joachim von Seewitz (full name: Joachim Wilhelm Friedrich Carl Oscar von Brüsewitz, born 15 August 1891 in
Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...
; died 23 February 1966 in
Hückeswagen Hückeswagen ) is a town in the north of Oberbergischen Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is part of the governmental district of Cologne. Geography Hückeswagen is situated on the river Wupper. Two dams, Bevertal dam and Wuppertal ...
) was a German podium dancer.


Biography

His father was the captain of the 1st Badische Leib Grenadier Regiment No 109, Hans von Brüsewitz (1853–1919), who later became lieutenant general and his wife Emmy (''née'' Luchtenberg) (1864–1948); he married with one of the granddaughters of the Hückeswagen cloth manufacturer Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Bockhacker (1797–1872). Joachim began to dance in
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in 1913 and performed under the name of Joachim von Seewitz. In 1919,
Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...
recommended him and his dance partner
Lo Hesse Lo Hesse (born 6 August 1889 Berlin, died 1983?) was a German dancer. Biography She was the dancing partner of Joachim von Seewitz and was employed at the Staatsoper Berlin. In 1919 she refused a commitment at the Vienna State Opera and went on ...
to the
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. Both decided to renounce this in order to tour South America. In 1921, the dancer made several promotional drama films with FW Koebler, the director of the Berlin Clarisse Ballet, as part of the opening credits for major feature films. In 1934 he was the first solo dancer in the newly founded Berlin Florence Ballet. As a dancer, he was photographed in an expressive style by the Berlin photographer Frieda Riess. After the end of his career as a dancer, he returned to his parents in Bachstr. in 1926 back in Hückeswagen. He was active as a leader of the local cultural community. He was buried in the family grave of Brüsewitz. His main estate is in the German Dance Archive Cologne.


Works

* The dream of the Torero, commercial 1921Bergische Morgenpost, 22 November 2007, "The dream of the Toreros"


References

1891 births 1966 deaths 20th-century German dancers People from Karlsruhe 20th-century German male actors German male dancers {{Germany-entertainer-stub