Ballet director smeared faeces on critic's face after bad review

An award-winning German ballet manager has been suspended aft smearing canine faeces connected a critic's face.

Marco Goecke was seemingly furious astir a reappraisal of 1 of his shows by writer Wiebke Hüster.

He allegedly confronted Ms Hüster during the half-time interruption of different amusement and smeared a insubstantial container filled with canine excrement connected her face.

Ms Hüster's employer, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), said constabulary were investigating.

The archetypal reappraisal of Mr Goecke's show, In The Dutch Mountains, was described by Ms Hüster arsenic similar being "alternately driven huffy and killed by boredom".

Mr Goecke said helium believed the damning reappraisal had outgo the Hanover Opera House subscriptions and threatened to prohibition her from the opera location during the confrontation.

Hanover State Opera said Mr Goecke had been suspended with contiguous effect, arsenic his "impulsive reaction" went against its rules of conduct.

They said Mr Goecke "extremely unsettled the audience, the employees of the location and the wide nationalist and frankincense massively damaged the State Ballet".

The connection besides said that Ms Hüster's "personal integrity was blatantly violated".

The FAZ paper, for which Ms Hüster worked, described the incidental arsenic "an effort to intimidate our free, captious presumption of the art".

Ms Hüster aboriginal reported connected the incident.

Mr Goecke has been the manager astatine the Hanover Theatre since 2019 and won the 2022 German Dance prize.