Eva Chamberlain

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Richard Wagner's family, August 1881.
From left, top: Blandine , Heinrich von Stein (Siegfried's tutor), Cosima , Richard , the painter Paul von Joukowsky ; below: Isolde , Daniela , Eva , Siegfried .

Eva Chamberlain (born February 17, 1867 in Tribschen near Lucerne ; † May 26, 1942 in Bayreuth ; born Eva Maria von Bülow ) was the daughter of Richard Wagner and Cosima Wagner and the wife of Houston Stewart Chamberlain .

Life

Eva was born the daughter of Richard Wagner, but her mother was still married to Hans von Bülow . Eva and her siblings Isolde and Siegfried were brought up by a private tutor, their half-sisters Blandine and Daniela were placed in a boarding school.

In 1906 Eva took over the supervision of the care of the sick mother in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth, did her mail and was the only family member to have access to the family archive. She used this to refine Wagner's biography. In 1908 she married the writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain. They acquired a stately villa next to Villa Wahnfried, which they moved into in 1916 (today the Jean-Paul-Museum ).

In the 1920s and 1930s she and her sister Daniela were the head of the Altwagnerians who spoke out against any modernization of Richard Wagner's works. In 1933 she received the honorary citizenship of the city of Bayreuth. She was the bearer of the NSDAP's badge of honor . When she died of cancer in 1942, she was given an honorary funeral by the NSDAP , at which the then Bavarian Minister Adolf Wagner gave the funeral speech.

Picture gallery

  • Richard Wagner with daughter Eva 1867

  • Cosima Wagner with daughter Eva, 1906

  • Wagner's house in Tribschen

  • Chamberlain House in Bayreuth

  • Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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SURNAME Chamberlain, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner Chamberlain, Eva; Bülow, Eva Maria von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Richard and Cosima Wagner, wife of
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Tribschen near Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1942
Place of death Bayreuth