German ballet director axed over dog feces attack on critic
By DW
17 February 2023 |
4:23 pm
Strictly speaking, Marco Goecke was not fired for smearing dog poo on a critical journalist's face after a bad review, rather he and Hanover's State Opera mutually agreed to dissolve his contract with immediate effect.
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