Stanislava Brezovar

Who was Stanislava Brezovar?

Stanislava Brezovar, married name Kleiber, was a Slovenian ballerina. She was also known as Stanka Brezovar.

Born in Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia, she studied to be a Germanist, but her primary love was ballet. She studied ballet in Düsseldorf. It was there that she met and married the German-born conductor Carlos Kleiber. They are buried together in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija. She was survived by a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.

In 1955, at the age of 18, she starred in the movie Ples čarovnic a Triglav Film production in Slovenian. The movie was a tour-de-force, 452 minutes of ballet to the Ples čarovnic symphonic poem by Blaž Arnič with choreography by Pia and Pino Mlakar.