Frank-Manuel Peter

Frank-Manuel Peter (born 1959) is a German dance researcher and historian.

Born in Berlin, Peter studied theatre, history of art, German studies and library science at the Free University of Berlin and graduated as a master's degree. In 2004, he was promoted to Ph.D. with a thesis on Dore Hoyer.

Peter has been director of the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln since 1986. He has been a lecturer since 2005 and an honorary professor for the dance studies programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln since 2012.

He is in charge of the book series Studien und Dokumente zur Tanzwissenschaft published by the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, with Walter Salmen and from volume 8 onwards with Gabriele Busch-Salmen the series Terpsichore - Tanzhistorische Studien and the Bibliographie deutschsprachiger Hochschulschriften zur Tanzwissenschaft/Tanzforschung.

Peter is a member of the advisory board of the Alexander and Renata Camaro foundation.

Editorship:

He is for the "Deutsche Tanzarchiv Köln" editor or co-editor of monographs by other authors on Kurt Jooss, Oda Schottmüller, Hanna Berger, Alexander von Swaine, and Gret Palucca, as well as three CD-ROMs.