Sad death of NY PR

We have been informed of the death this weekend of Helene Kamioner, a highly effective publicist who, among other achievements, put Bavarian State Opera on the American media map.

Helene was 72. The funeral was in New Jersey on Sunday.

Helene had received an advanced cancer diagnosis late last year but was confident recently that she was in remission and was busy making plans for 2024 and beyond. She could be over-persistent, but she was never a time-waster and knew how to take No for an answer. Among the coterie of West Coast PRs and their tame hacks, she was something of an outlier, always looking for new outlets.

A Munich-born child of Polish Holocaust survivors, Helene had ambitions to be a performer but settled for an auxiliary role. Latterly she spent time tracing her parents’ survival routes.

Helene is survived by her brother Henry and his family.

May her memory be blessed.