According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine, this is just the latest in a string of incidents which demonstrate a growing tendency among artists and actors to intimidate critics.
Karin Beier, the director of Hamburg’s Playhouse, recently described critics as “s— on the sleeve of art,” the newspaper noted.
Last summer, an actor with a Berlin theatre threatened one critic that “your time is over, darling”.
Germany’s journalists’ union reacted by saying that: “An artist must endure criticism ... Read even more
