[1] Lämmel mentions several schools affiliated with Laban or Mensendieck without apparently having any official connection to either teacher: Helmi Nurk (Bremen), Margarete Schmidts (Essen), Edith Bielefeld (Karlsruhe), the Lucian School (Erfurt), Olga Suschitzky (Vienna), Karin Schneider (Graz), Gertrud Volkersen (Hamburg), Senta Maria (Munich), Marion Hermann (Oldenburg), Anne Grünert (Duisburg), Trude Hammer (Berlin), Frances Metz (Munich). Freund discusses a few of the more than 150 dance-gymnastic schools in Berlin about which information is otherwise very scant, including Lotte Wedekind, Ruth Allerhand, and Berthold Schmidt. The Internationales Tanz Adressbuch , published in 1922, listed approximately 720 persons in Germany who claimed to be solo dancers. Dancers affiliated with theatres and opera houses totaled nearly 600, including 560 females and 35 males. Approximately 250 persons worked as dance instructors, 47 of whom specialized in ballet. Most instruction applied to careers in cabarets and revues. The address book listed nearly 500 German cabaret dance acts, including 325 pair dance acts. In 1922, Germany apparently had 57 dance schools that prepared students for concert performances; these included 12 in Berlin, 5 in Hamburg and Frankfurt, 4 in Munich, and 3 each in Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Dresden. These figures compare with other European nations as follows:

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