Remember my blog about Marx? This time artist Ottmar Hörl merchandises his plastic Wagners for 300 euros. In the back is the venerable Festspielhaus (©BZ). |
The Brits and the French particularly adore Richard's music as typically German, or should I instead write Teutonic? They pay a fortune to sit in the Bayreuth Festival Theater (Festspielhaus) on the Green Hill without air conditioning on wooden seats. Yesterday with temperatures approaching 40 degrees centigrade, they devoutly listened to The Flying Dutchman together with Germany's high society.
Horst Seehofer invited the latter to an official reception (Staatsempfang) at the Neues Schloss (New Castle).
"Tricky Horst" (Finten-Horst) and Bayreuth's Lord Mayor Brigitte Merk-Erbe, offered the first slices of Wagner's birthday cake to our President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Jochen and Mutti (Mom) said that they liked the performance of Der fliegende Holländer but did not comment on the cake.
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Fantastic!
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