In the "Brigitte" he was placed in a row with the abusive director Dieter Wedel and the convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein: the interim director Klaus Dörr, who managed the Berlin Volksbühne between 2018 and 2021 before he faced opaque MeToo allegations and his resignation explained.
At the time, the public took it as an admission of guilt, because why should someone resign so quickly if they had no dirt on their backs.
The "Berliner Zeitung" has now rolled up the case again.
The reason for this is the depressing observation that the name Dörr no longer appears on the official capital city portal of the state of Berlin, i.e. it has been "cancelled".
And this despite the fact that the allegations made by seven complainants at the time are now apparently limited to “staring at women” and a few low-level jokes.
A vendetta?
The "Berliner Zeitung" now reports that a ringleader from "Staub zu Glitzer", the collective that publicly occupied the Volksbühne in 2017, encouraged the women to complain.
Klaus Dörr subsequently rejected an artistic project by the collective.
As a result, the self-proclaimed "radical left feminist" apparently decided to overthrow the director.
On Instagram, she is frank about how she got the women to complain and mobilized the press.
In the end, only the "taz" bit - but that was enough to achieve their goal - the end of "patriarchal tyranny".
From today's perspective, the case of Klaus Dörr - who no longer gets a job - seems to be symptomatic of a fatal stimulus-reaction mechanism that does not distinguish between inappropriate behavior and serious abuse.