“It was a brief terrible collision that I have finished with.” This is how the journalist Wiebke Hüster comments on the attack by the ballet director.
Journalist Wiebke Hüster, who was attacked with dog excrement by Hanover’s ballet director Marco Goecke, no longer wants to see the choreographer’s pieces. “His future has nothing to do with my future,” she told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. “I will never look at a piece by him again. And if the State Opera insists on continuing to employ him, then I will not enter the house again.” She emphasized that in 25 years she had never even been insulted.
On Saturday evening in the foyer of the opera house in Hanover, Goecke smeared the journalist of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” with dog excrement. He had previously accused her of always writing “bad, personal” reviews. Three days after his dog excrement attack, the ballet director apologized publicly – but at the same time made further allegations against the journalist concerned. She reacted indignantly.
That evening she stood calmly in front of him and talked to him, she told the newspaper. “I didn’t feel any guilt towards him.” She saw a world premiere by Marco Goecke in The Hague and wrote about it – “not without emphasizing positive moments”. She explained: “I’m 57. When you’re young you might get carried away by horses. But I don’t just hit them.” She “didn’t want to comment on Goecke or speculate about his motives or his state of mind. It was a short, terrible collision that I ended with”.
On Tuesday afternoon, Goecke said in writing via his management, among other things: “I would like to sincerely apologize to everyone involved, first and foremost to Ms. Hüster, for my action, which is absolutely not to be approved.” At the same time, he again accused the journalist concerned and spoke of “often hateful criticism”. (dpa)