Martin Roth leaves the V & A Museum: Stop when it is at its best – Tagesspiegel

The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & amp; A) in London, Martin Roth, is in his office, as the “Sunday Times” reported on Sunday. Born in Stuttgart, who previously headed as Director General, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, joined five years ago to England. With exhibitions of David Bowie, “Radical Fashion” or “Design of disobedience” he provided for visitor records. The V & amp; A was elected in July for the British “Museum of the Year” in the law have stated that for one of the most popular museums in the country was “one of the best in the world” has become. Next week, an exhibition on the pop revolution of 1966 opened up 1970th

At first it was alptraumartig difficult

Opposite the Germany radio said Martin Roth, he hears on in London, “because it is going so well and I do not think I can do it even better” , From the beginning, he wanted to stay only five years. The first two years as a V & amp; A chief but were “alptraumartig difficult”, he had “suffered like a dog”. But he had found a very good team and “a lot of support from the population, by our trustees” get. He was at a loss: “I do not know what I would have done better”. Roth would be that he will no longer be “devoured by meetings”, he wants to “engage more political again”.

Martin Roth, 61, is said to have promised not make the new job. From the output of Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union referendum cultural scientist was horrified: “Why beats wrecking what has been built over decades?” He sounds resigned when he states: “It is possible that the Europe to which I still believe, and certainly no longer exists . ” From mid-2017 Roth will act as president of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa). The Institute sets <"st" span class => I an art exchange and the civil society dialogue worldwide. This is an honorary position.

Not again Berlin

Roth has repeatedly criticized the German cultural policy, where museums “still too close to the state” were. What he meant was the “megalomaniac” Humboldt Forum. The “time” he said about the founding artistic director of the house, which is to stay in the back facing the Berlin Palace: “This directorship is really brilliant thinkers and decades experienced practitioners, but there are three mature gentlemen who on together the weight of over 180 years the scales bring. ” The directors are Neil MacGregor, Horst Bredenkamp and Hermann Parzinger. “One would have also six people can rely, which are only 30 -. Including several women” After the British model, Roth had tried to free entry to the German museums – in vain. After Berlin, where he once worked at the German Historical Museum – so he said a year ago – he will not return

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