diff --git a/src/stage/interact/cmd-context.hpp b/src/stage/interact/cmd-context.hpp
index 1ee600274..fdbac751f 100644
--- a/src/stage/interact/cmd-context.hpp
+++ b/src/stage/interact/cmd-context.hpp
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ namespace interact {
   
   /**
    * Helper for dynamic command argument resolution.
+   * @todo 4/2021 this was part of a design draft in 2017, not clear yet if we need it
    */
   struct CmdContext::Resolver
     {
diff --git a/src/stage/interact/drag-relocate-controller.hpp b/src/stage/interact/drag-relocate-controller.hpp
index fa27b17bb..a0671ee2c 100644
--- a/src/stage/interact/drag-relocate-controller.hpp
+++ b/src/stage/interact/drag-relocate-controller.hpp
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
  ** Concrete implementation of a dragging gesture to relocate an UI entity.
  ** This gesture controller is maintained as an InteractionState holder within
  ** the InteractionDirector and serves as target to receive signals, in order to
- ** observe a draggable widget and possibly activate the formation of a dragging
+ ** observe a draggable widget and possibly activate on formation of a dragging
  ** gesture. When this happens, the DragRelocateController is responsible for
  ** observing the mouse movements, to integrate a movement delta, and finally
  ** to recognise the end of the dragging gesture and invoke the associated
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
  ** 
  ** @note this implementation level header is meant to be included
  **       solely for the purpose of creating an instance from within
- **       facility responsible for actually managing InvocationState
+ **       GestureState, the facility managing InvocationState instances.
  ** 
  ** @todo WIP and prototypical implementation as of 3/2021
  ** 
diff --git a/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.cpp b/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.cpp
index d8a144531..66533bbc9 100644
--- a/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.cpp
+++ b/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.cpp
@@ -24,18 +24,30 @@
 /** @file gesture-state.cpp
  ** Implementation of a holder and manager for interaction state.
  ** 
- ** @todo do we really need a separate implementation unit for this??
- ** 
+ ** @todo do we really need a segregated translation unit for the
+ **     InteractionState implementations? The alternative would be
+ **     to emit all the related code from interaction-director.cpp;
+ **     and in this alternative solution, we'd also allocate all the
+ **     interaction state right within GestureState, without PImpl.
+ **     The benefit would to avoid yet another indirection, while
+ **     the downside would be to include all those implementations
+ **     unnecessarily also into cmd-context.cpp, with the danger that
+ **     someone later on starts to "short circuit" directly into some
+ **     implementation, by switching on type.
  */
 
 
+#include "lib/error.hpp"
 //#include "lib/util.hpp"
 //#include "lib/symbol.hpp"
 //#include "include/logging.h"
+#include "lib/format-string.hpp"
 #include "stage/interact/gesture-state.hpp"
+#include "stage/interact/drag-relocate-controller.hpp"
 
 //#include <string>
 //#include <map>
+using util::_Fmt;
 
 //using std::map;
 //using std::string;
@@ -46,17 +58,41 @@
 namespace stage {
 namespace interact {
   
+  namespace error = lumiera::error;
+  
   namespace { // internal details
     
   } // internal details
   
   
   
-  GestureState::~GestureState() { }  // TODO really needed?
+  GestureState::~GestureState() { }  // emit dtors of managed objects here....
+  
+  GestureState::GestureState()
+    : dragRelocate_{new DragRelocateController{}}
+    { }
   
   
   
   
-  /** nonsense */
-
+  
+  /**
+   * @todo as of 4/2021, interactions and UI state handling can be considered an early draft;
+   *       since the UI needs to be fleshed out in more detail in order to decide on a proper
+   *       organisation and possibly flexible configuration. In the meantime, we use some
+   *       hard wired mappings to actual InteractionState implementations
+   */
+  InteractionState&
+  GestureState::getStateFor (Action action, Scope qualifier)
+  {
+    if (DRAG==action and ON_TIMELINE==qualifier)
+      return *dragRelocate_;
+    else
+      throw error::State (_Fmt{"Unforeseen interaction state in Lumiera UI requested. "
+                               "GestureState::getStateFor... Action=%d Scope=%d"}
+                              % action
+                              % qualifier);
+  }
+  
+  
 }} // namespace stage::interact
diff --git a/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.hpp b/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.hpp
index d326d846c..2226e31f8 100644
--- a/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.hpp
+++ b/src/stage/interact/gesture-state.hpp
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 //#include "lib/util.hpp"
 
 //#include <string>
+#include <memory>
 
 
 namespace stage {
@@ -58,8 +59,10 @@ namespace interact {
   using lib::Symbol;
 //  using util::isnil;
 //  using std::string;
+  using std::unique_ptr;
   
 //class Subject;
+  class DragRelocateController;
   
   
   /**
@@ -73,8 +76,11 @@ namespace interact {
   class GestureState
     : util::NonCopyable
     {
+      unique_ptr<DragRelocateController> dragRelocate_;
+      
     public:
-     ~GestureState();   ///////////TODO required??
+      GestureState();
+     ~GestureState();
       
     public:
       enum Action {
@@ -87,12 +93,14 @@ namespace interact {
       };
       
       /**
+       * Decode the classification of the kind of interaction and gesture,
+       * and thus translate to a concrete InteractionState implementation.
+       * @return reference to the actual UI state with respect to the
+       *     specific gesture requested, which can then e.g. be used
+       *     to wire a specific UI widget to become responsive to
+       *     this kind of gesture.
        */
-      InteractionState&
-      getStateFor (Action action, Scope qualifier)
-        {
-          UNIMPLEMENTED ("how to designate and access state for specific gestures");
-        }
+      InteractionState& getStateFor (Action action, Scope qualifier);
       
     private:
     };