# Jochen Ulrich

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**Jochen Ulrich** (3 August 1944 – 10 November 2012)[1][2] was a German choreographer and dancer.

## About

Ulrich was born in [Osterode am Harz](/source/Osterode_am_Harz). After studying at the Cologne Institute for Stage Dance[3] from 1964 to 1967, Ulrich made his debut as a dancer at the [Cologne Opera](/source/Cologne_Opera) in 1967. By 1970, his choreographic works were already attracting national attention. In 1971, together with [Helmut Baumann](/source/Helmut_Baumann), Jürg Burth and Gray Veredon, he co-founded the Cologne Dance Forum and directed it from 1979.[4] There, he fostered a number of young talented dancers from all over Europe, including the later choreographer [Richard Wherlock](/source/Richard_Wherlock).

In 1970, he won the Berliner Kritikerpreis.[2][5]

From 2000, Ulrich was director of ballet at the [Tyrolean State Theatre](/source/Tyrolean_State_Theatre) in Innsbruck. There he created the ballet *[Caravaggio](/source/Caravaggio_(Ballet))*, which described the life and work of the [Italian painter](/source/Caravaggio). Intendant [Rainer Mennicken](/source/Rainer_Mennicken) brought him to Linz in 2006, where he achieved great success among others with [Dennis Russell Davies](/source/Dennis_Russell_Davies) and the [Bruckner Orchester Linz](/source/Bruckner_Orchester_Linz).

His style distinguished itself in athletic-technical extensions of the dance impulses.

In November 2012 he died in Linz at the age of 68 after a long illness.[1][2][5]

## References

1. [*Landestheater trauert um Jochen Ulrich*.](http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2558369/) ooe.orf.at. retrieved 12 August 2021.

1. [*Nachruf*.](http://www.landestheater-linz.at/8513_DE-Andere-Aktuelles_Detail.htm?nid=172&backid=8412) Theater Linz. Retrieved 12 August 2021.

1. [Bachelor of Arts Tanz](https://www.hfmt-koeln.de/studiengaenge/bachelor-of-arts-tanz/) on

1. [*Dance has lost an important choreographer personality*](https://www.choices.de/jochen-ulrich-der-ehemalige-ballettchef-des-tanzforum-koeln-ist-tot) retrieved 12 August 2021

1. ["Nachruf"](https://archive.today/20130212065015/http://www.theater-chemnitz.de/sparten/ballet/choreografie/ballett_choreografie_ulrich.html?PHPSESSID=ff06efe47b7de61322623c71e08bf73d). *www.theater-chemnitz.de*. Archived from [the original](http://www.theater-chemnitz.de/sparten/ballet/choreografie/ballett_choreografie_ulrich.html?PHPSESSID=ff06efe47b7de61322623c71e08bf73d) on February 12, 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2021.

## Further reading

- [Dieter Blum](/source/Dieter_Blum), [Peter Weiermair](/source/Peter_Weiermair) (ed.): *Erotischer Tanz*. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-9804523-4-4.
- [Jochen Schmidt](/source/Jochen_Schmidt_(dance_critic)): *Tanzgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts in einem Band. Mit 101 Choreografenportraits* Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-89487-430-9.
- Jochen Ulrich, Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/2001 from 17 September 2001, in [Munzinger-Archiv](/source/Munzinger-Archiv) ([Start of article freely available](https://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000018154))

## External links

- [Seite zu Jochen Ulrich](https://www.deutsches-tanzarchiv.de/archiv/nachlaesse-sammlungen/u/jochen-ulrich) beim [Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln](/source/Deutsches_Tanzarchiv_K%C3%B6ln).
- [Jochen Ulrich](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1911967/) at IMDb
- [*Landestheater trauert um Jochen Ulrich*.](http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2558369/) ooe.orf.at.
- [Portrait](http://www.landestheater-linz.at/8682_DE-Das_Ensemble.-Biographie.htm?persid=1020&ensemble=7) Theater Linz

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