Dancer

Hedi Schoop

German dancer, cabaret artist, sculptor, painter and manufacturer

Born 1906 · ZurichDied 1995United StatesSwitzerland
Hedi Schoop
Image: Anthony Verebes · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Hedi Schoop was an American dancer, born in 1906 in Zurich, who died in 1995.

Biography

Hedi Schoop (3 April 1906 – 14 April 1995) was a Swiss-born German dancer, cabaret artist, sculptor and painter. From 1929 to 1933, she appeared in Berlin in the cabarets Die Katakombe and Tingel-Tangel-Theater. She emigrated with her first husband, Friedrich Hollaender, to California, where she turned to pottery. She founded a factory where ceramics based on her designs were produced from 1940 to 1958.

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Contemporaries

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