For his dance partners, Heinz Bosl was a sensitive, devoted and fantastically safe partner.

He and Konstanze Vernon celebrated triumphant successes on the stage of his beloved Nationaltheater Munich, to which he always remained loyal. When Margot Fonteyn chose him as her partner for her tours in 1973 and 1974, he attracted considerable international attention.

Konstanze Vernon writes about her former dream partner:

“In classical ballet, it is very rare to find your ideal partner. Heinz was such a partner. A lovely person and a gifted dancer, who realised that talent is a responsibility as well as a gift. The years of partnership we were granted remain an incredibly important chapter in my life.”

At the beginning of his career, 1972

“When his desire to become a dancer grew stronger, at the age of eight and a half, he joined the children’s ballet class of the Bavarian State Opera.
His days were full: school in the mornings and homework in the evenings, if he was not performing a child role in one of the State Opera’s performances.
When he completed the children’s ballet programme, we had to decide whether Heinz should go to secondary school and study music. He chose dance and entered full-time training. When he was 19, Heinz was delighted to be the youngest dancer ever to be offered a contract as a soloist. It was the beginning of a life full of hard work and sacrifices.”

Emmy Bosl

In the children’s ballet class

As a student with Helen Kraus-Natsheva

“Those who had the privilege of working with him admired his intelligence, his sensitivity, his extremely quick and almost intuitive grasp of movement, and his astonishing ballet technique. For his devoted audience, it was his personality, his aura, and his very distinctive aesthetic as a dancer.”

Dieter Gackstetter

“Heinz Bosl was a sensitive, devoted and fantastically safe partner. He and Konstanze Vernon celebrated triumphant successes on the stage of his beloved Nationaltheater Munich, to which he always remained loyal.”

Dieter Gackstetter

In rehearsals with John Cranko 

“Heinz believed that you need luck to be successful, and he was lucky. John Cranko, who took over the Munich ballet in 1986, recognised his qualities and took a special interest in him. He gave him big roles to dance and rehearsed with him: «Romeo and Juliet», «Swan Lake», «Daphnis and Chloe», «Onegin» and all his abstract ballets.”

Stefan Erler

“When Margot Fonteyn chose him as her partner for her international tours, the name Heinz Bosl took on an international significance that will remain undisputed.”

Dieter Gackstetter

“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 that of any other dancer I knew. His long, elegant legs flew into the air with great speed, but then seemed to have marked difficulty in regaining gravity and returning to earth.”

Margot Fonteyn