Eschy wins a prize (surprise!)

Martin says:

Eschenbach, or his network of dwindling supporters, believes that by networking repeated “insider” prizes, this will in some way compensate and counterbalance his lack of success and multiple dismissals from orchestras that he has been music director of.
What is also shocking, as well as embarrassing for him, is that he is well-known for being extremely greedy and demanding outrageous fees as a music director, more than Muti, more than Nezet-Seguin, more than Gergiev, who are all in another league, on another, far higher, level as musicians than he is, and that he repeatedly receives, and actually takes for himself, prize money of small amounts, like this 10,000 Euro award. Will he give the money to a needy student? Or give it to a charity? We read here, the last time he got another one of these little cash awards, that he would give it to a charity, as his greed was a hot topic on these pages then. Did he really do it? Will he pocket this money as well?
These sorts of German prizes are all funded by and are part of an incestuous network of insiders, who come to the aid of those among them who have image problems, or who need some good public relations subsequent to an endless string of disasters, as is the case with Eschenbach.