In keeping with the each day Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Goecke approached its dance critic, Wiebke Huester, through the interval of a premiere on the opera home on Saturday and requested what she was doing there.
The newspaper mentioned that Goecke, who apparently felt provoked by a current overview she wrote of a manufacturing he staged within the Netherlands, threatened to ban her from the ballet and accused her of being answerable for individuals canceling season tickets in Hannover. He then pulled out a paper bag with the feces and smeared her face with the contents.
“I want to apologize sincerely to all involved, initially to Ms. Huester, for my completely unacceptable act,” Goecke mentioned in a written assertion. “Looking back, I’m clearly conscious that this was a disgraceful act within the warmth of the second and an overreaction,” he added.
Nevertheless, he added that it’s time for media to “rethink a sure type of damaging and hurtful reporting that damages the entire cultural sector” and criticized Huester for what he mentioned have been “typically nasty critiques.”
Goecke pointed to the “nervous pressure” ensuing from two premieres in fast succession as a purpose for his actions.
“I apologize for the truth that I lastly blew my prime, however I additionally ask for a sure understanding not less than for the the reason why this occurred,” he wrote.
Huester filed a legal grievance after the incident. Goecke faces an investigation on suspicion of bodily hurt and slander.
Goecke has mentioned his aged dachshund had defecated earlier, and he had packed the mess right into a bag and had been planning to eliminate it. Whereas he says he then acted within the warmth of the second, the critic has contended that it was a premeditated assault.
Huester mentioned she was shocked by Goecke’s assertion on Tuesday.
“What sort of an apology is that this alleged to be?” she requested on 3sat tv, describing it as an tried justification of his actions, German information company dpa reported.
