The case happened during the premiere of a show directed by Marco Goecke, which was met with criticism from the audience.
AFP – A Hanover Operain Germany rejected the ballet director who attacked a journalist with dog feces for criticizing him in a German vehicle, the institution announced on Thursday 16.
“A cooperation based on trust is no longer possible with Marco Goecke,” the establishment said in a statement. “An agreement has been reached between the two parties to terminate the ballet director’s contract with ‘immediate effect,'” he added.
Goecke, who had held his position since 2019, had already been suspended and barred from accessing the site “for protect the ballet and theater from any future damage“.
Last Saturday, the 11th, the the director rubbed dog feces on a reporter’s face of the German vehicle Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) who attended the premiere of the ballet Glaube-Liebe-Hoffnung (Faith love hope).
During the break, Goecke, “first verbally and then physically attacked our dance critic, Wiebke Hüster”, denounced the vehicle.
The newspaper reported that he stood in front of the reporter, who did not know him personally, to ask what he was doing to the premiere and, after scolding her, “took a bag full of animal droppings and rubbed the contents on his face says our critic”.
On Tuesday 14, Goecke justified his reaction and said the journalist’s criticisms made him feel “personally attacked,” he told local public radio NDR. “The way I expressed myself was certainly not good,” he admitted, claiming that the criticism was “on the same level as a pile of faeces.”
The Carabinieri of Hanover are investigating the case, who confirmed through a spokeswoman AFP extension that a 57-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit over what happened.
Source: Terra
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