The Düsseldorf company commander is currently “on the move”, as he would now say in his Swiss German, which is often English-infused.
The almost 61-year-old ex-star dancer Martin Schläpfer moved from Ballet am Rhein to the Danube for the Vienna State Ballet.
The cultural metropolis on the Danube (evidently also enticing with siren songs) was, however, also sufficiently attractive for Martin Schläpfer after his last executive positions, after Bern, Mainz and Düsseldorf. Unlike Berlin, where he would have wanted to, several times, but where an ignorant cultural policy screwed it up and where you are now faced with the terrible and lasting heap of ruins of a state ballet that has imploded in all directions, artistically and administratively.