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Pioneer of dance therapy

Fe Reichelt played a major role in shaping the dance scene and especially dance therapy in Germany.

Fe Reichelt, once s master student of Mary Wigman has died.

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Fe Reichelt, 2007, ChristianH

Fe Reichelt, born Friederun Grimm in Beijing on June 13, 1925, played a major role in shaping the dance scene in Germany after World War II as a dancer, choreographer and dance therapist. She eventually founded her own dance therapy institute in Berlin. There she passed away on January 5, 2023, at the age of 97.

For Erlebte Geschichten von WDR5 (“Lived Histories”), she had told me her life story.

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