Overview
- Multiple outlets report on Monday that the 61‑year‑old designer is again spending significant time at his nearly 100‑year‑old villa in Kirchheim an der Weinstraße after three years in Berlin.
- Glööckler told Bild that Berlin felt increasingly louder, more hectic and dirtier to him, and that those conditions undermined his long‑term health and quality of life.
- He has stripped the house of former opulence, opened a gallery on the ground floor, and said he is presenting and selling his art through auctions and vernissages as part of a reinvention.
- The move is closely tied to his personal life: his Papillon dog Ikarus prompted him to rethink daily routines and the villa had stood empty after his 2023 separation from Dieter Schroth, whose relationship with Glööckler has since become a friendship with no reunion planned.
- Glööckler remains professionally active, having shown work at Art Basel and being scheduled to open Basel Fashion Week on August 23, 2026, even as he shifts his main residence back to the countryside.