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Eva-Elisabeth Fischer

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Eva-Elisabeth Fischer was born in Munich (Germany) in 1952. Never has she really left her home town, although she recently moved to the countryside, but off course still in a commutable distance to the paper and all the theatres and performance spaces. After her A-levels she studied German and English literature. In 1978 she started writing for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, although she had never intended to become a journalist. Since she was a dance enthusiast then, still taking ballet classes at that time, she decided to be a dance critic and wrote her first reviews on minor local dance events for the cultural section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1979. After having worked continuously for the paper, she became member of the staff in 1986 and has edited both the cultural and recently the travel section ever since. In the eighties she also worked for radio and television. Apart from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she also writes book reviews, travel reports an on Jewish topics, she has been correspondent for the dance magazine Ballett/Tanz for 20 years.

• Statement on dance criticism by Eva-Elisabeth Fischer held during the Sarma-colloquium „Unfolding the Critical“ at Tanzkongress Deutschland in April 2006, available in German and in English: Kritik Criticism