Blandine Gravina
Blandine Gravina (born March 20, 1863 in Berlin , † December 4, 1941 in Florence ; born Blandine Elisabeth Veronica Theresia Freiin von Bülow ) was a daughter of Cosima Wagner and Hans von Bülow and a granddaughter of Franz Liszt .
Life
After her mother's divorce and her marriage to Richard Wagner , Blandine and her sister Daniela went to boarding schools. a. the Luisenstift in Niederlößnitz , educated.
In 1882 she married Count Biagio Gravina , the second son of Prince di Ramacca from Palermo. Since not the husband but his brother got the land and the title and the husband's position as an officer in the Italian Navy was short-lived, the family was financially bad.
The marriage had 4 children:
- Manfredi Gravina (born June 14, 1883 in Palermo , † September 19, 1932 in Danzig ) was an Italian naval officer, diplomat and high commissioner in the Free City of Danzig (1929-1932)
- Maria Cosima Gravina (* 1886 in Palermo, † 1929), her second husband Egas of Wengen's memoirs were Marie d'Agoult out
- ; Gilberto Gravina († 1972 * 1890 in Palermo Bayreuth , conductor and flautist, staff) Bayreuth Festival , in the grave of his aunt Daniela Thode buried
- Guido Gravina (* 1896 in Palermo, † 1933)
Biagio Gravina shot himself in a deep depression in 1897, and the widow moved to Florence. In 1926, Blandine initiated the reconciliation of the Nietzsche and Wagner families, who had fallen out because of Nietzsche's last work " Nietzsche contra Wagner ". In 1933 she received the honorary citizenship of the city of Bayreuth . In the family disputes of the 1930s regarding questions about the performances of the Bayreuth Festival , she tried to mediate. She died in Florence in 1941, where she is buried.
Trivia
The Sicilian years of Blandine Gravina, including her marriage to Biagio, are the subject of the 2017 novel Der Himmel über Palermo by Constanze Neumann.
literature
- Jonathan Carr: The Wagner clan. Biography of a German family. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18504-7 .
- Brigitte Hamann : The Wagner family. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-50658-0 .
- Oliver Hilmes : Cosima's children. Triumph and tragedy of the Wagner dynasty. Siedler, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88680-899-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Andert: Wagner children in the Luisenstift. (PDF; 84 kB) Part 63. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. September 2013, accessed November 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Stephan Speicher: A wild sex , sueddeutsche.de from May 17, 2010, accessed on May 5, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gravina, Blandine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bülow, Blandine Elisabeth Veronica Theresia von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of Richard and Cosima Wagner Houston |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 1941 |
| Place of death | Florence |