Ursula Vian-Kübler (6 September 1928 – 18 January 2010) was a Swiss ballerina and actress.

Biography

Ursula Kübler was born on 6 September 1928 in Zürich, Switzerland, to Alva Giertz and Arnold Kübler. She joined the

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as a dancer. After a career as a dancer at the opera, she danced for

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, before becoming a company member at the

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. After retiring from ballet, Kübler worked as a film, stage, and television actress. She met

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at a cocktail party at Gallimard in 1950, and the two started an affair. Vian later divorced his wife, and Kübler married him on 8 February 1954. In 1963, she founded the Boris Vian Association, which was renamed the Boris Vian Foundation in 1981. In 1971, she signed the

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, a petition created as an act of civil disobedience arguing for the legalization of abortion in France. She died on 18 January 2010 in

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, France.

References

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