He charged *what??* for a piano lesson in Munich
mainThe disgraced former president of Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Siegfried Mauser, has been ordered to pay back 21,000 Euros after he was found to have abused his state position.
Mauser stepped down as president in 2014 to become head of the Salzburg Mozarteum.
But the Munich Administrative Court has found that he arranged to keep his name on the Hochschule’s faculty as a teacher. And the Hochschule billed his students around 277 Euro per hour for tuition – all of which is money he now has to pay back.
Apart from that Mauser, now 64, was charged soon after with sexual assault and sentenced to two years and nine months imprisonment, which he has not yet served.
He could spend the rest of his life in litigation.
Norman, a small correction…
Mauser wasn’t charging students €277.
After he became president of the Mozarteum in 2014, he wished to and did retain a “teaching mandate” at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in München, where, for every hour he taught, the Bavarian State paid him €277.
The €21.000 is to be paid back to the state.
Thank you, Max.
Also, Mauser got to keep most of the money he was paid. The 21,000 Euro was just the part that was considered an overcharge. 15,000 was sum total for the over charges per hour, plus 6000 that he was given as a premium for what I assume was considered superior work. As a Rektor, or former Rektor, he probably had considerable influence on the decisions to make these payments.
It’s great to defend a criminal Max, but Bayern paid Mauser 277€ per lesson because Mauser requested it. There is no such payment allowed in Germany for government employees.
Please Nick, simply read my comment and don’t read into it.
Norman initially wrote that Mauser was charging money directly from students for teaching standard university courses, which is not how universities here function. I fail to see how pointing out inaccuracies in reporting amounts to defending criminals.
That article doesn’t make any sense. Lost in translation?
Some more here, from the SZ…
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mauser-musikhochschule-freistaat-zurueckzahlen-1.4319353
is it just me or does herr mauser bear an uncanny resemblance to Harvey Weinstein?
He has a greying beard and a round face. Maybe that’s as far as the similarity to Weinstein goes?
It’s a saga. Siegfried Mauser will have a second meeting before the Administrative Court on February 13. It will be about hair-raising proceedings taking place at the outselt of the criminal proceedings: Mauser had himself taken leave from the Munich University of Music in 2015 once he became the Rector of the Salzburg Mozarteum. As we all know the employment at the Mozarteum was terminated ‘amicably’ due to the preliminary investigation on Mauser concerning harassment claims. Following his departure from Salzburg Mauser immediately demanded to be allowed to return to his former Munich official position — ! — so as to be able to continue receiving payment of his salary for that position. Because the Ministry denied him this astonishing request, the administrative Court will now have to decide whether Mauser was in his right to demand receiving his former salary or whether the Ministry was right in denying this request.
The ministry was 1000% right in denying the Mauser’s arrogant request.
Thank you for your opinion, which is 1000% irrelevant in this case.
When a nobody like Mauser can charge 277€ per lesson than what would the fee be for a REAL PROFESSOR?, someone who produces excellence. Throughout his career Mauser produced nothing except criminal behavior. He should rot in jail and all his assets should taken away.
Presumably the fact that he was able to convince TPTB to pay him such a fee for teaching suggests that there was some actual demand for his teaching.