Karl-Heinz King

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Karl-Heinz King (born January 10, 1929 in Cologne ) is a German ballet dancer , choreographer and dance teacher .

biography

Inspired by films with the revue star Marika Röck , he began a tapping course during the Second World War . Without his parents' knowledge, after 1945 he attended ballet classes in addition to the commercial school. From there he was brought to the Cologne Opera by ballet master Arthur Spankel in 1947 and promoted to soloist in autumn that year. In 1949 he was so impressed by a guest performance by the Sadler's Wells Ballet with Margot Fonteyn that, with the support of his friend, the choreographer Peter Roleff, he went to study at the Saddler's Wells Ballet School in London for a year.

From 1950 engagements followed in Düsseldorf as a soloist with Yvonne Georgi and further training in Paris with Victor Gsovsky and Boris Knjasew . After an engagement in Bielefeld (together with Peter Roleff as choreographer) King was hired for the position of first soloist at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich. There he danced with partners Liane Müller and Anna Luise Schubert in numerous operettas and musicals.

In May 1956, Karl-Heinz King and Peter Roleff opened the Roleff-King Ballet School in Munich. After the war, the school was one of the first private schools for ballet in Germany to be certified by the stage cooperative. In 1987, King and Roleff handed the ballet school over to their assistant Ruth Brand-Ludwig, who they continue to run under the name Ballet Academy Roleff-King.

After his time as a dancer and dance teacher, Karl-Heinz King devoted himself to collecting Neapolitan cribs. In 2016, this resulted in a book entitled My Neapolitan Crib Collection and a film report for Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Works

• My Neapolitan crib collection. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2016, ISBN 978-3-89870-984-2

Filmography

• 2016: We in Bavaria. Bavarian television December 16, 2016