The Ballets Günther de Münich during a January 15, 1943 performance at the Salle Pleyel, a concert hall in Paris, France. One of their arrival in Paris, too. Photographed by André Zucca, a French photographer who became Paris correspondent for the German propaganda Nazi magazine “Signal” in August of 1941. Must have been why they hired him to shoot these. From an Paris Libraries archive.

 
Danseuses, part of Ballets Günther de Münich. Une représentation à Paris, salle Pleyel. Photographed in Paris, France on January 15, 1943. Negative on a flexible cellulose nitrate support. André Zucca, photographer (French, 1897-1973). © Estate of the photographer. Roger-Viollet, worldwide distributor. © Historical Library of the City of Paris. Fair use license. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0001663887/0003/v0001.simple.selectedTab=record
Danseuses, part of Ballets Günther de Münich. Une représentation à Paris, salle Pleyel. Photographed in Paris, France on January 15, 1943. Negative on a flexible cellulose nitrate support. André Zucca, photographer (French, 1897-1973). © Estate of the photographer. Roger-Viollet, worldwide distributor. © Historical Library of the City of Paris. Fair use license. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0001663887/0002?
Danseuses, part of Ballets Günther de Münich. Une représentation à Paris, salle Pleyel. Photographed in Paris, France on January 15, 1943. Negative on a flexible cellulose nitrate support. André Zucca, photographer (French, 1897-1973). © Estate of the photographer. Roger-Viollet, worldwide distributor. © Historical Library of the City of Paris. Fair use license. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0001663887/0001/v0001.simple.selectedTab=record
Maja Ler, première danseuse. part of Ballets Günther de Münich. Une représentation à Paris, salle Pleyel. Photographed in Paris, France on January 15, 1943. Negative on a flexible cellulose nitrate support. André Zucca, photographer (French, 1897-1973). © Estate of the photographer. Roger-Viollet, worldwide distributor. © Historical Library of the City of Paris. Fair use license. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0001663887/0004/v0001.simple.selectedTab=record
Danseuses du ballet Günther de Munich. Paris, janvier 1943. Must have been taken the day they arrived in Paris. January 1-31, 1943 image. Presumably shot by André Zucca as the rights are being managed by Roger-Viollet too and there is no other mention of the ballet Günther de Munich that appears online. © Estate of the photographer and LAPI / Roger-Viollet. Fair use license. https://www.roger-viollet.fr/image-photo/guerre-1939-1945-danseuses-du-ballet-gunther-de-1536126

The bibliothèques spécialisées de Paris website where I found these has further information about the Ballet Günther de Munich that is listed as a further description with the four photographs on their site. They state that the Günther Ballets of Munich had been well known to the French public since the 1937 International Exhibition which had been held in Paris. They add futher that the choreography was by Dorothée Günther with Gunild Keetman being the musical director.

Learn more about Ms. Günther at the link below. She formed several different dance troupes over time. I’m sorry. I know little of German dance companies in the 20th century or I’d try to figure out which one this might be. http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/ch-d-e/Dorothee%20G%C3%BCnther.html





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