Hannelore Bey (born 6 November 1941 Leipzig

Leipzig

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) was a prima ballerina at the Komische Oper Berlin

Komische Oper Berlin

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Life

She studied from 1956 to 1961 at the Palucca school

Gret Palucca

Gret Palucca was a German dancer and teacher.Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909. There she received ballet lessons with Heinrich Kröller from 1914 to 1916...

 in Dresden

Dresden

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. She then studied from 1965 to 1966 at the Waganowa Academy in Leningrad

Leningrad

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 with Belikowa and Puschkin. She was a member of the National Theatre of Dresden

Dresden

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 from 1961 to 1965 and was a member of the Komische Oper Berlin

Komische Oper Berlin

The Komische Oper Berlin is an opera company in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in German language productions of opera, operetta and musicals....

 from 1966. She became a prima ballerina in 1969. In 1975 she had a son Olive Bey. From 1983 to 1991 she was a member of the Akademie der Künste

Akademie der Künste

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 and she toured in Finland

Finland

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, Norway

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, Yugoslavia

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, Romania

Romania

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, Italy

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, Spain

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, Iceland

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, Greece

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, Czech Republic

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, Slovakia

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, France

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, USSR, Cuba

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 and Egypt

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In 1985 she retired and was made an honourable member of the Komische Oper Berlin

Komische Oper Berlin

The Komische Oper Berlin is an opera company in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in German language productions of opera, operetta and musicals....

. Since her retirement she has become a critic for the Berlin

Berlin

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 newspaper, Trägerin. Since 1996 she has been a professor at the Palucca school

Gret Palucca

Gret Palucca was a German dancer and teacher.Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909. There she received ballet lessons with Heinrich Kröller from 1914 to 1916...

 of dance.

Awards

In 1973 she was awarded with the National Prize of East Germany

National Prize of East Germany

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, while in 1981 she was awarded with the Fatherland Order of Merit.

Main Roles

• "Abraxas" , 1966
• "fantastic symphony" , 1967
• "Cinderella" , 1968
• "Dornrö" , 1968
• "Giselle, state State of Berlin, Chemnitz" , 1968
• "La Mer" , 1969
• "Undine" , 1970
• "match" , 1971
• "Romeo and Julia" , 1972
• "party" , 1973
• "the badly protected daughter" , 1974
• "black birds" , 1975
• "revue" , 1977 * to ", 1979
• "swan lake" , 1980
• "DEFA feature "I may say Petruschka Pastorale" to you? " ", 1981
• "Shakespeare shapes" , 1982
• "Wahlverwandtschaften" , 1983
• "Walzer" , 1988
• "Bernarda Albas house" , 1990