2024-04-22 13:29:28
Opinion cultural scandal
The strangely peaceful end to the dog poop affair
As of: 3:34 p.m. | Reading time: 2 minutes
Choreograph Marco Goecke
Quelle: Christophe Gateau/dpa/picture alliance
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Two years ago, Hanover ballet director Marco Goecke had to leave after he smeared a critic with his dachshund’s droppings. Now Goecke is back. And that’s just as well.
The man with the poop is back. After Gustav, Germany’s most famous cultural dachshund, passed away in old age last November and made headlines again, albeit smaller ones than when his master attacked a dance critic in February 2023 with his excretions, Hanover’s ex-ballet director Marco Goecke is now back back. And even with a piece at his old place of work.
Does that surprise us? Of course not. The criminal proceedings against Goecke were dropped before Gustav’s death (“a large part of me is gone,” said the heartbroken owner). As a punishment for his unseemly behavior that put the relationship between artists and the media under scrutiny, he had to pay a four-figure sum to a non-profit association that deals with conflict resolution.
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And the choreographer we were looking for wasn’t really gone anyway. Of course, it was impossible to continue working as director in Hanover, but his plays were not canceled. Just as little as anywhere else. They are simply too special and too important for that. One or two premieres were canceled in the immediate aftermath of the draft, but Goecke’s share of the repertoire is still clear and visible.
And that’s right. Choreographic talent, especially distinguishable talent, is particularly rare right now. In the big dance companies in Germany, whether in Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Leipzig or Dresden, the same name-letter soup is cooked everywhere, everything is terribly tasteless.
In Berlin at least, but it wasn’t that difficult, the quality indicator has been pointing upwards again since Christian Spuck took office last autumn. But of course they also played Marco Goecke’s “Sacre du Printemps”, which was heavily applauded and was set long before the attack. Because it’s always sold out.
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