The director of a leading German ballet company has been sacked from his post and is being investigated by police after allegedly smearing a critic’s face with his dog’s excrement at the premiere of his new show after she described one of his productions as “boring” and “disjointed”.
Marco Goecke confronted Wiebke Hüster, the ballet critic of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), in the interval of his latest show on Sunday night.
He attacked her verbally before producing a bag of dog faeces from his pocket and rubbing the contents in her face, the FAZ and the critic said.
German ballet director ‘smeared dog faeces on critic’s face’ after bad review [the Guardian]