The author and columnist Hanna Lakomy has made new allegations against the Munich songwriter Konstantin Wecker via a Facebook post. Accordingly, the now 78-year-old is said to have touched her without being asked in 2015 and invited her to his hotel room.
Now 41, Lakomy, who goes by the stage name Salomé Balthus, was 31 at the time.
What I have NEVER experienced: a hand on my thigh. Also not: the invitation to the hotel room.
Hanna Lakomyauthor
“I met him in 2015. I actually wanted to thank him: he (sic!) had some nice words for my father’s 70th birthday,” Lakomy begins her post, which can still be viewed online. She reports that she attended a Wecker concert in Leipzig at the time.
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“I have known backstage situations since my childhood: but I (sic!) have always experienced them as a protected, familiar space,” she continues. “What I have NEVER experienced: a hand on my thigh. Not even: an invitation to the hotel room,” the author describes her experiences at the time and wonders: “Right at the table in front of the entourage, and in front of my father’s manager.” Her father Reinhard Lakomy, who died in 2013, was one of the most famous artists in the GDR as a composer and singer.
Reprimanded by Wecker’s entourage
Lakomy emphasizes that she was of age at the time and “was definitely not permanently traumatized. I was just amused and disgusted.” On the one hand “from the broken artist”, but even more “from his entourage”. She was reprimanded by them after she used a swear word towards Wecker.
Lakomy, who also works as a sex worker, explains that she was wearing a turtleneck sweater and jeans that evening, “which is irrelevant.” In addition, in 2015 she was “far from being outed and known as a sex worker”. “But that wouldn’t be an excuse either,” she concludes her Facebook post.
Wecker has not yet commented on the new allegations. Last week, a 30-year-old woman made serious allegations against the songwriter in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
She met Wecker as a student at the age of 15 after attending a concert. The then 63-year-old alarm clock is said to have exchanged chat messages and made phone calls with the young person almost every day in 2011 and 2012; the woman also reports multiple sexual encounters in hotel rooms after she turned 16.
Alarm Clock: “Deepest Regret”
Wecker apologized for his actions. “According to his recollection, it was a consensual relationship with the young woman, which, however, represented completely inappropriate behavior on his part under moral standards,” said the 78-year-old’s lawyer. Wecker expressed his “deepest regret” about the relationship. “I would like to apologize to the woman concerned,” the songwriter said through his lawyer.
According to “SZ”, the woman is still in therapy today because of the psychological consequences. The relationship with the much older songwriter left her permanently traumatized.
Two weeks ago, Wecker canceled all performances on his current tour for the current month. He has been seriously ill since the beginning of the month and is now undergoing inpatient treatment, his lawyer wrote.