World’s worst press office receives Richard Wagner prize

World’s worst press office receives Richard Wagner prize

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norman lebrecht

June 09, 2017

The Richard Wagner Prize of the city of Leipzig for 2017 has been awarded to Oswald Georg Bauer, former press chief of the Bayreuth Festival.

Bauer presided over a press office whose job was the keep the press out of Bayreuth as much as possible, except for a handful of trusted critics who would not ask awkward questions. His press office never obligingly picked up a phone or answered a reasonable inquiry. Or ever smiled.

 

He is a worthy winner of this year’s Wagner prize to add to his Slipped Disc award.

 

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