Nowhere are there stricter corona requirements for culture than in Bavaria. Andreas Beck, artistic director of the Munich Residenztheater, talks about everyday life in a house that can only be entered by those who really work hard.
Interview by
Christiane Lutz
Open, closed, now open again, but under the strictest conditions: Andreas Beck, director of the Bavarian State Theater since autumn 2019, has spent more than half of his time in Munich in pandemic mode between postponing and moderating. Now he’s sitting at a bright red table in his director’s office and exudes a mixture of amusement, fatalism and wild determination, his pug snores next to the heater.