Marco Gockethe ballet director of the Staatstheater Hannover, in GermanyHe was suspended with “immediate effect” over allegations that he threw dog feces at a journalist who had criticized one of his works. The facts go back to last Saturday night February 11th during the premiere of the show Faith – Love – Hope and the reporter involved is the critic Wiebke Huster the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “During the first break in the foyer, there was an incident between ballet director Marco Goecke and a critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in which his personal integrity was violated,” said the State Opera. Sorry” for what happened. The artistic director of the opera Laura Berman announced – reports Der Spiegel – that he had contacted the journalist to apologize immediately after the alleged incident. «The State Opera of Hanover it is an open place of respectful togetherness and exchange. We believe that calm and diligence are necessary,” he emphasized. “We will – he concluded – examine the legal steps taken against the ballet director Marco Goecke, advise them together and then act on this internal personnel issue.” The police are now investigating physical injuries. The director had previously targeted Hüster because he believed his criticism would cancel many subscriptions to the theater’s ballet season.
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