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- ↑ German Dance Archives Cologne
- ↑ "Kurt Peters zum 100. Geburtstag". Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn (in German). 10 August 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ↑ Obituary in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Nr. 35 from 10./11. February 1996, p. 32.
- ↑ Lexikon der klassischen Tanztechnik. Eine systematische Terminologie der klassischen Tanzkunst on WorldCat
