Heinz Bosl (21 November 1946 – 12 June 1975) was a German ballet dancer.''Oxford Dictionary of Dance'' (2004)

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Bosl was born in

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. He studied at the

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's ballet school based in

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. After graduating in 1962 Bosl became a full-time member of the State opera's

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and in 1965 he started as a soloist.
Bosl quickly becoming a rising star of the company, he specialized in the

danseur noble A ''danseur noble'' traditionally was a male ballet dancer who projected great nobility of character. Over the last century, the term has been used to define a male principal dancer who performs at the highest theatrical level combining grace with ...

roles of traditional ballet. Bosl also created roles in ''

symphonie fantastique ' (''Fantastic Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections'') Opus number, Op. 14, is a program music, programmatic symphony written by Hector Berlioz in 1830. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December ...

'', ''Encounter in Three Colours'' and ''Casanova in London''. He partnered

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on numerous occasions, she took him on two foreign tours in 1973 and 1974. Bosl died aged 28 of

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. In Munich he had often been the partner on stage of

Konstanze Vernon Konstanze Vernon (2 January 1939 – 21 January 2013) was a German ballet dancer, academic teacher and director of a ballet academy and a ballet company. She was from 1963 to 1981 prima ballerina of the ballet at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She ta ...

. In honour of his memory, she founded the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung (Heinz Bosl Foundation) in 1978 to help young ballet students.

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1946 births 1975 deaths People from Baden-Baden Deaths from cancer in Germany German male ballet dancers 20th-century German ballet dancers {{dance-bio-stub