Collection Contents
Series 1.
Photographs
circa 1905 - circa 1939, bulk 1931- 1939
Physical Description:
0.7 linear feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series comprises photographic prints and photographic negatives of Trudi Schoop, her company, her family, and other artists
managed by Alfred Fischer. Prints of some negatives are not available.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by subject
Restrictions
Photographic negatives are restricted.
Box : Folder 1 : 1
Artists managed by Alfred Fischer
undated
Physical Description: 23 black-and-white photographic prints
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of actors Lisa Czobel, Sylvia von Rodenberg, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Bassermann, Else Bassermann, Tilla
Durieux, and Alexander Moissi.
Box : Folder 1 : 2, 568-H-4
Schoop family
circa 1905- circa1920
Physical Description: 54 black-and-white photographic prints, 26 photographic negatives
Access Information
Photographic negatives are restricted.
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of Schoop as a child with her parents and brother, and a photograph of Schoop acting as Gretchen in "Faust."
Box : Folder 1 : 3-5, 568-H-4
Trudi Schoop: commercial portraits by Mannell London and others
circa 1930-circa 1939
Physical Description: 76 black-and-white photographic prints, 2 photographic negatives
Access Information
Photographic negatives are restricted.
Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet
Box : Folder 1 : 6
Candid photographs
circa 1920-circa 1939
Physical Description: 28 black-and-white photographic prints
Scope and Content Note
Includes photographs of Trudi Schoop with Alfred Fischer in St. Moritz, Switzerland; Trudi Schoop dancers in casual attire;
and Trudi Schoop with brother Paul Schoop.
Box : Folder 1 : 7-10
Portraits by Margot Meyer, Vandamm Studio, Kurt Kahle, and Anna Riwkin
circa 1931-circa 1939
Physical Description: 139 black-and-white photographic prints
Scope and Content Note
Includes portraits of dancers Elisabeth Lesse, Helga Weigert, Max Fickel, Meta Krahn, Niels Björn Larsen, Werner Herrmann,
Didi Lederer, Jeanette Dublow, Hanna Berger, Gitta Wallerstein, Ellen Liy, and Otto Ulbricht, and musical director and composer
Lothan Perl.
Box : Folder 2 : 1-2
Alles aus Liebe [
All for Love]
circa 1931- circa1939
Physical Description: 64 black-and-white photographic prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographed by Kurt Kahle.
Box : Folder 2 : 3-4
Die Blonde Marie [
Blond Marie]
circa 1931-circa 1939
Physical Description: 49 black-and-white photographic prints
Scope and Content Note
Photographed by Anna Riwkin, Kurt Kahle, and Heinz Guggenbühl. Includes three photographs of the cast with Shirley Temple.
Box : Folder 2 : 5
Fridolin Unterwegs [
Fridolin on the Road]
circa 1931-circa 1939
Physical Description: 12 black-and-white photographs
Box : Folder 2 : 6-8
Unidentified productions
circa 1931-circa 1939
Physical Description: 56 black-and-white photographic prints and 3 contact sheets
Scope and Content Note
Photographed by Dora Horovitz, Anna Riwkin, Kurt Kahle.
Box : Folder 2 : 9
Miscellaneous unidentified photographs
Series 2.
Trudi Schoop biographical information
circa 1931 - circa 1939,
2006-2007
Physical Description:
0.05 linear feet
Arrangement
Alphabetical by format
Box : Folder 2 : 10
Biographical information
2006-2007,
undated
Box : Folder 2 : 11
Offprint: "Warum denn tanzen,"
Schweizer Spiegel
circa 1931-circa 1939
Series 3.
Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet records
1931-1940, 1999, bulk 1933-1940
Physical Description:
0.45 linear feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series comprises clippings, correspondence, contracts, and other company records of the Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet and
manager Alfred Fischer, including some files on other artists Fischer managed.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by format
Restrictions
Access to fragile original clippings is restricted. Researchers must use photocopies.
Box : Folder 2 : 12, 3 : 1-2, 568-H-2
Clippings
1931-1938,
1999,
undated
Access Information
Fragile original clippings are restricted.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings were gathered by a variety of press clipping services.
Box : Folder 3 : 3, FB-30 : 7
Contracts, touring lists, and other materials
1935-1940,
undated
Box : Folder 3 : 4
Personal
1933-1940,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Includes letters from actresses Lucie Mannheim and Luise Rainer.
Box : Folder 3 : 5-6
Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet
1933-1939,
undated
Box : Folder 3 : 7
Other artists managed
1933-1940,
undated
Box : Folder 3 : 8
Miscellaneous correspondence and financial documentation
Box : Folder 3 : 10
Miscellaneous correspondence and ephemera
1936,
undated
Series 4.
Programs and broadsides
1934-1939
Physical Description:
0.5 linear feet
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series comprises broadsides, announcements, and event and souvenir programs for Trudi Schoop Comic Ballet performances.
Arrangement
Alphabetical by format
Box : Folder 3 : 12, FB-30 : 8, XOS1
Broadsides and announcements
1938,
undated
Box : Folder 3 : 13
Event programs
1934-1939,
undated
Box : Folder 3 : 14
Souvenir programs
circa 1935-1939
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