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The award-winning director was apparently furious about a recent review that panned his show.

The critic had described the choreographer's previous piece as like being “alternately driven mad and killed by boredom."

Marco Goecke confronted journalist Wiebke Huester in the foyer during an intermission of a performance because he was incensed by the writer’s negative review of his previous show, Huester’s employer said.

BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper critic had animal feces smeared on her face in the city of Hannover by a ballet director who apparently took offense at a review she wrote.

A German newspaper critic had animal feces smeared on her face in the city of Hannover by a ballet director who apparently took offense at a review she wrote. The Hannover state opera house apologized for the incident and said Monday that it was suspending ballet director Marco Goecke with immediate effect. The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that a furious Goecke approached its dance critic, Wiebke Huester, during the interval of a premiere at Hannover's opera house on Saturday and asked what she was doing there.