Heinz Bosl

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Heinz Bosl's grave in the park cemetery in Munich-Untermenzing.

Heinz Bosl (born November 21, 1946 in Stollhofen, today in Rheinmünster , † June 12, 1975 in Munich ) was a German ballet dancer and was considered one of the best German dancers of the 1970s.

education

Heinz Bosl's family lived in Dortmund for a few years soon after his birth. According to his mother (in the film by Percy Adlon ), a roller-skating rink triggered the child's desire to learn to dance. After moving to Munich, at the age of eight, Heinz Bosl was accepted into the children's ballet school of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, directed by Kitty Wirthmiller . At the request of his father, he also took piano lessons at the Trapp Conservatory in Munich. After graduating from children's ballet school, he had to choose between studying dance or music and chose dance. From then on he attended the Eleven class of Helen Kraus-Natschewa. The ballet director at the time, Heinz Rosen , promoted his training. In 1962, Heinz Bosl successfully completed his dance studies and became a member of the Bavarian State Opera Ballet at the age of sixteen.

Dancing career

At the age of 19, Heinz Bosl received a contract as a solo dancer in 1965. In 1968 John Cranko took over the direction of the Munich Ballet. This marked the beginning of the most important phase of Heinz Bosl's dance career. From then on he danced solo roles in both classical ballets like Romeo and Juliet , Swan Lake , Onegin and in Cranko's abstract ballets such meeting in three colors . Alongside Margot Werner , Konstanze Vernon was his most important pas de deux dance partner from 1967 to 1974 . Bosl was the male star dancer of the Munich National Theater in the 1970s . Despite many guest appearances at the Bavarian State Opera, Heinz Bosl owes his international fame to his tours with Margot Fonteyn , with whom he danced in over 80 performances. Bosl was at the start of a brilliant international career but died of leukemia at the age of 28 .

After his death, Konstanze Vernon set up the Heinz Bosl Foundation , which was the first ballet foundation in the Federal Republic of Germany to promote the next generation of ballet players.

Appreciations

  • “As a dancer, Heinz had a remarkable, very clean, correct and effortless technique. His pirouettes seemed to spin with the ease of a top and his elévation was unlike any other dancer I know. Its long, elegant legs flew into the air at great speed, but then seemed to have extreme difficulty regaining gravity and returning to earth. […] His dancing was neither boringly correct nor boastfully virtuoso, but had its very own style that impressed the audience immediately when they saw him. […] Without a doubt, Heinz was one of the best dancers of our time, and he would have had a lot to give the world […]. ” Dame Margot Fonteyn , Ballet Yearbook
  • “But it wasn't just Cranko's work that was down to the slim, sparkling technology, the resilient jumping power and the warmth of the design; Heinz Bosl was also a welcome interpreter for a Balanchine […], a Hans van Manen […] or Erich Walter […]. Of course, he always seemed most convincing to me as Onegin , as Colas (in Ashton's La Fille mal gardée ) and as Nutcracker (by Neumeier ): roles that uninterruptedly expressed his personal nobility, his pure sensibility and incomparable elegance. " Hartmut Regitz , The dance archive

literature

  • Max Niehaus : Heinz Bosl . Südwest Verlag, Munich 1975; 3., rework. u. exp. 1976 edition.
  • Horst Koegler , Helmut Günther : Reclams Ballettlexikon . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1984, p. 72.
  • Scheibmayr, Erich: Last home. Personalities in Munich cemeteries, 1784–1984. Munich 1985.

documentation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Malisch: Bosl, Heinz , in: Karl Bosl: Bosls Bayerische Biographie. 1000 personalities from 15 centuries. Supplementary volume. Regensburg 1988, p. 16.
  2. ^ Koegler / Günther: Reclams Ballettlexikon , p. 72.
  3. ^ Nikolaus Turner: In the name of Maecenas for art. Art and culture promotion through foundations. In: the scales. Zeitschrift der Grünenthal GmbH , Volume 35, Aachen 1996, Number 3 (pp. 89–133: Foundations ), pp. 111–118, here: p. 118
  4. ^ Dame Margot Fonteyn: Heinz Bosl . In: Ballet Yearbook 1975 , p. 16.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Regitz: On the death of Heinz Bosl . In: Das Tanzarchiv , Volume 23, Issue 8, August 1975, pp. 253–254, here p. 253.
  6. ↑ The dancer Heinz Bosl. ( Web video ) In: youtube.com. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  7. ^ Alpha-retro: The Dancer Heinz Bosl (1976). In: br.de . Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bosl, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollhofen
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1975
Place of death Munich