In 1954 Daniel Spoerri returned to Bern, where he was hired as lead dancer at the Municipal Theater. He also taught ballet himself and thus financed his own theater experiments. As director he staged German premieres at the Kleintheater in Bern, including “The Bald Soprano” by Eugène Ionesco, “Desire trapped by the Tail” by Pablo Picasso, furthermore at the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf “The Gas Heart” by Tristan Tzara, among others.

1957- 59
Assistent to Rudolf Sellner at the Regional Theater in Darmstadt.