--- name: "Pina Bausch" canonical: "https://film.one/person/pina-bausch" fi1m_id: "pina-bausch" imdb_id: "nm0062471" tmdb_id: 402 wikidata_id: "Q155538" roles: ["Choreographer"] born: "27 July 1940" died: "30 June 2009" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-01T21:34:24.976179+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Pina Bausch ## Identity Pina Bausch - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pina-bausch - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** pina-bausch - **IMDb ID:** nm0062471 - **TMDB ID:** 402 - **Wikidata ID:** Q155538 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155538, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062471/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/402 Choreographer. Born 27 July 1940 in Solingen, Germany. Died 30 June 2009. ## Details - **Work:** Choreographer - **Born:** 27 July 1940, Solingen, Germany - **Died:** 30 June 2009 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2010s 80 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155538, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0062471/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/402 ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*Pina*](https://film.one/film/pina.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Pina Bausch > Pina Bausch can make the need for contact clear through movement alone. Her screen appearances are few, but *Talk to Her* shows how much feeling her work can bring to a film without a speech to explain it. In *Talk to Her* (2002), Pina Bausch’s dancing carries feelings that the conversations cannot quite manage. She appears performing in an excerpt from her own *Café Müller* (1978), a work concerned with isolation and failed connection. We were moved by the dance passages because their need for contact is recognisable without anyone explaining the steps. Javier Aguirresarobe’s gliding camera connects the dancing with the physical business of care elsewhere in the film. Bausch gives Almodóvar another way to help us understand his characters, and the film is richer for it. Her screen work is sparse, and treating her as a conventional character actor misses most of what she does. With Tanztheater Wuppertal, she combined dance, speech and song in scenes that did not depend on a conventional story. Her dancers contributed personal material through a question-based rehearsal process, giving their experiences a place in the work. *The Rite of Spring* (1975) put dancers on a stage covered in soil; *Café Müller* concentrated on isolation and failed connection. Federico Fellini gave her a different kind of screen appearance as La Principessa Lherimia in *And the Ship Sails On* (1983). Her own feature, *Die Klage der Kaiserin (The Plaint of the Empress)* (1989), extended her stage methods into a collage of scenes filmed on location. She directed, wrote and choreographed it, so movement was only part of her responsibility. Her stage collaborators included set and costume designer Rolf Borzik and set designer Peter Pabst, working in a theatre where soil, water and flowers made the surroundings physically important. The risk in her approach is repetition: an expression of pain can become familiar without becoming more revealing. In *Talk to Her*, Pedro Almodóvar gives that physical expression a clear purpose. The dance passages sit alongside a drama about two men caring for women in comas, with Aguirresarobe keeping our attention on bodies in both. We recommend the film with a reservation about how readily it forgives its men, not about Bausch’s contribution. Her choreography makes the longing for closeness understandable without resolving the troubling questions raised by the story. Start there for Bausch on screen; there is no need to learn a dance vocabulary first. ## Biography Pina Bausch was a German dancer, choreographer and actress. She was born in Solingen in 1940 and died in Wuppertal in 2009. She founded the company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Bausch appeared in films as an actress, including as La Principessa in *And the Ship Sails On* (1983) and as Bailarina in *Talk to Her* (2002). Archive footage of her work featured in the documentary *Pina* (2011). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) - *Talk to Her* (2002), Fi1m 84, as Bailarine — [page](https://film.one/film/talk-to-her.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Pina* (2011), Fi1m 80, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/pina.md) ## Complete filmography (18) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Dancing Pina* (2023), Choreographer - *Dancing at Dusk – A moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring* (2020), Choreographer - *Vollmond - Ein Stück von Pina Bausch* (2014), Stage Director, Choreographer - *Kontakthof - Ein Stück von Pina Bausch* (2014), Choreographer, Stage Director - *Orpheus and Eurydice* (2008), Choreographer - *Pina Bausch* (2006), Actor - *Talk to Her* (2002), as Bailarine · Choreographer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/talk-to-her.md) - *The Complaint of an Empress* (1990), Choreographer, Director, Writer - *Palermo Palermo - Ein Stück von Pina Bausch* (1989), Director - *AHNEN ahnen* (1987), Director - *Walzer* (1986), Director - *Café Müller* (1985), Director, Producer - *And the Ship Sails On* (1983), as Principessa Lherimia - *Dress Rehearsal* (1980), Actor - *The Rite of Spring* (1978), Director, Choreographer - *Bluebeard* (1977), Director - *Lissabon Wuppertal Lisboa*, Actor - *Nelken Ein Stück von Pina Bausch*, Choreographer ## Gallery - ![Pina Bausch](https://film.one/media/person/97689/gallery-7dd765983a4c.jpg) Pina Bausch — Michaud, Fernand (1929-2012). Photographe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Pina_Bausch_%28festival_d%27Avignon%2C_1981%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Straatnaambord Pina Bauschplein, Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam-Oost (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/97689/gallery-eaceddd21ca7.jpg) Straatnaambord Pina Bauschplein, Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam-Oost (2024) — Ceescamel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/2024_Sluisbuurt%2C_Pina_Bauschplein%2C_Asd.jpg/1280px-2024_Sluisbuurt%2C_Pina_Bauschplein%2C_Asd.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Andres Neumann con Pina Bausch e Matthias Schmiegelt durante un sopralluogo (1985) (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/97689/gallery-461c6b5a7969.jpg) Andres Neumann con Pina Bausch e Matthias Schmiegelt durante un sopralluogo (1985) (2016) — Tommaso.desantis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Andres%2BPina%2BMatthias_wiki.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Nelken Line (Pina Bausch) par L'Atelier Saugrenu à la "Fête des Trous" - 11 juillet 2020 - tiers-lieu de la Verrerie, Arles](https://film.one/media/person/97689/gallery-1b23958566da.jpg) Nelken Line (Pina Bausch) par L'Atelier Saugrenu à la "Fête des Trous" - 11 juillet 2020 - tiers-lieu de la Verrerie, Arles — TiersLieudelaVerrerie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Nelken_Line_par_L%27Atelier_Saugrenu_au_tiers-lieu_de_la_Verrerie.jpg/1280px-Nelken_Line_par_L%27Atelier_Saugrenu_au_tiers-lieu_de_la_Verrerie.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Pina Bausch (in the middle) with her dancers at the Wiesenland show. (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/97689/gallery-0e5c8091d1aa.jpg) Pina Bausch (in the middle) with her dancers at the Wiesenland show. (2009) — Leafar aka raphael labbé, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Pina_Bausch.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Sujet : Bausch, Pina (1940-2009) -- Portraits Bausch, Pina (1940-2009) Festival d'Avignon (35 ; 1981) Portraits de la danse -- 1981-1990 Appartient à l’ensemble (1984)](https://film.one/media/person/97689/gallery-c1e4b2536cea.jpg) Sujet : Bausch, Pina (1940-2009) -- Portraits Bausch, Pina (1940-2009) Festival d'Avignon (35 ; 1981) Portraits de la danse -- 1981-1990 Appartient à l’ensemble (1984) — Michaud, Fernand (1929-2012). Photographe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Pina_Bausch_-_portrait_de_Fernand_Michaud_-_btv1b10329512d.jpg/1280px-Pina_Bausch_-_portrait_de_Fernand_Michaud_-_btv1b10329512d.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 9 won - Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt 2008: Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (won) - Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg 2008: Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg (won) - Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy 2007: Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (won) - Europe Theatre Prize 1999: Europe Theatre Prize (won) - Praemium Imperiale 1999: Praemium Imperiale (won) - Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1997: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won) - Ring of Honour of the City of Wuppertal 1997: Ring of Honour of the City of Wuppertal (won) - State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia 1990: State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia (won) - Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1986: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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