German ballet choreographer smears critic with dog excrement, newspapers say
BERLIN Feb 13 (Reuters) - Arts critics are used to trashing subpar 業績／成果s with 消極的な reviews, but they are rarely on the receiving end of an all-too-literal smear （選挙などの）運動をする.
This 週末 though, the 長，指導者 choreographer of Hanover 明言する／公表する オペラ smeared the 直面する of a dance critic with dog excrement after she gave a 消極的な review of his 最新の show, German newspapers wrote.
Wiebke H?ster, a dance critic for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), was …に出席するing the 首相 on Saturday of the ballet "Glaube - Liebe - Hoffnung" (約束 - Love - Hope) at the Hanover 明言する／公表する オペラ.
During the interval, Marco Goecke, one of the 生産／産物´s choreographers, 直面するd H?ster in the theatre´s （人が）群がるd foyer and smeared her 直面する with dog excrement, newspapers said.
Goecke, who is Hanover 明言する／公表する Ballet´s 長，指導者 choreographer and director, 脅すd to 禁止（する） H?ster from the theatre before 除去するing a 捕らえる、獲得する filled with the feces and wiping its contents in H?ster´s 直面する, FAZ 報告（する）／憶測d on Sunday.
The 交流 followed H?ster´s 消極的な review of Goecke's new show "In the Dutch Mountains", which was published in the FAZ on Saturday.
H?ster wrote that watching the show, which recently opened at Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague, was like 存在 "alternately driven mad and killed by 退屈".
The オペラ house apologised for the episode in a 声明, 追加するing that it was checking which steps to take against the director in 一致 with 労働 法律. It did not give 詳細（に述べる）s of what happened.
"We 接触するd the 新聞記者／雑誌記者 すぐに after the 出来事/事件 and apologised to her 本人自身で and also 公然と," Laura Berman, the オペラ house´s artistic director, said in a 声明. "We very much 悔いる that our audience has been 乱すd by this 出来事/事件."
The オペラ house couldn't すぐに be reached for comment.
FAZ said that a police 調査 has been 開始する，打ち上げるd, also 示唆するing that H?ster´s public shaming was worrying news for the arts world.
"This humiliating 出来事/事件 is not only an 行為／法令／行動する of bodily 害（を与える） but also an 試みる／企てる to 脅迫してさせる our 解放する／自由な, 批判的な 見解（をとる） of art," the newspaper said. (報告（する）／憶測ing by James Imam; Editing by Nick Macfie)
