Director Dieter Wedel resigns after controversial repeated accusations of actresses for alleged sexual assaults as director of Bad Hersfelder Festival. He could not continue to perform his duties, a spokeswoman from Wedel shared with him. He put his office down with immediate effect. "Currently Dieter Wedel is in a hospital. After events of last two weeks he is ill-health, "said spokeswoman.

Among reasons for his withdrawal, director expressed himself in a detailed opinion published on website of festival. In this, Wedel writes of a "climate of prejudging, so-called" suspicion reporting ". In face of such a climate, he could not win "fight against my reputation – neir by legal means nor with media opinions".

The bad Hersfelder Mayor Thomas lacking spoke in an opinion of a "sad day" for festival. Dieter Wedel's decision was a painful step for festival and city, which had a lot to thank for Wedel.

In a post in Time magazine (subscription), several actresses had raised harassment charges against director and confirmed this with sworn insurance. Wedel contradicted accusations, also by affidavit.

Under slogan MeToo (German: Me), which came up in United States, since last year, women and men worldwide have reported attacks. The accusations against US producer Harvey Weinstein were trigger.

Date Of Update: 23 January 2018, 12:03