D he director of the Rostock popular theater, Sevan Latchinian has been dismissed. Reason is a statement Latchinians during a demonstration in early March when he with the cultural destruction caused by the terrorist militia compared the Theatre Politics in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Islamic State.
But the dismissed director wants to his immediate dismissal sue. This, he announced on Wednesday. A day earlier, the Main Committee of the Rostock citizenship Latchinian had quit. This was the culmination of a months-long debate about the future of theater.
months long dispute over cuts
Latchinian said on Wednesday the transmitter Germany Kultur, everyone knows that his Comparison was a pretext for termination only. He had strongly criticized the council in recent months. These structural changes had decided in February, according to which of the four to be a two-divisional theater.
The dismissal Latchinians, in Rostock only since the season 2014/15 director works, is the culmination of a months-long dispute over cuts in popular theater and the orientation of the Theatre Politics in the Northeast.
“compare one must already”
Latchinian had at the said demonstration in Neustrelitz: “For weeks destroy (…) IS thugs in Iraq, the age-old World Heritage Sites Nimrud and Kirkuk, religious pretexts And here in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – I use the not equal, however you have to that. already – has currently begun the destruction functioning theater structures in the name of money “
Latchinian had subsequently stressed that he wanted to remind you of the responsibility by that statement, cautiously deal with the cultural heritage.. However, he had as an artist the right to poetic and satirical escalation. A reaction of Latchinian on his dismissal was not initially get.
During a rally against the dismissal of theater directors Sevan Latchinian demonstrators broke into the town hall in Rostock © Bernd Wüstneck / DPA
Before the Special Session of citizenship to terminate Latchinians about 500 people had expressed their solidarity with directors before the City Council. During the meeting, more than 200 protesters broke into City Hall to appeal for Latchinian. They disturbed loudly the Main Committee, to the superintendent came out himself to calm the situation.
“Second Light Hagen”
Latchinian lost after the termination of his tendency to polarize not. “There are quite a few said that today, a new second light Hagen,” he said Germany Kultur. Since the riots in 1992 against an inhabited by foreigners House of Rostock’s light Hagen is a synonym for xenophobia. Latchinian said that democracy had won every day and culture to be defended. The citizens were asked if they corrected their citizenship.
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