Berlin/Ludwigsburg (dpa/lsw) - The director and cultural entrepreneur Jochen Sandig from Baden-Württemberg has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In the 1990s, for example, he was one of the founders of the Berlin art house "Tacheles" and together with his wife, the choreographer Sasha Waltz, opened the dance company "Sasha Waltz
Berlin's Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) presented him with the Cross of Merit on behalf of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the Red City Hall on Wednesday.
Sandig comes from Esslingen am Neckar and later came to Berlin. From 1996 he expanded the Sophiensäle there into an internationally active production house for theatre, music and dance and from 1999 he was part of the artistic management of the Schaubühne, the Berlin Senate Chancellery announced. After all, in 2006 he played a key role in the creation of the "Radialsystem" cultural center in the capital.
