Gottfried Wagner (director)

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Gottfried Wagner (2013)

Gottfried Helferich Wagner (born April 13, 1947 in Bayreuth ) is a German director and publicist.

Life

Gottfried Wagner is the son of Ellen Drexel and Wolfgang Wagner , great-grandson of Richard Wagner and great-great-grandson of Franz Liszt . He did his doctorate on Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht . In numerous publications he dealt primarily with German culture and politics as well as Jewish history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Gottfried Wagner has been a co-founder of the Post- Holocaust Dialogue Group since 1992 . He has lived in Italy since 1993. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He fell out with his father's family and came out publicly by criticizing the Wagner family's entanglement with the Nazi regime .

Publications

  • Gottfried Wagner: Who doesn't howl with the wolf. Autobiographical notes of a Wagner great-grandson. Foreword by Ralph Giordano . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-462-02622-4 .
  • Gottfried Wagner, Abraham J. Peck : Our zero hour. Germans and Jews after 1945. Family history, the Holocaust and a new beginning . Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-205-77335-7 .
  • Gottfried Wagner: You shouldn't have any other gods besides me. Richard Wagner - A minefield . Propylaea, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-549-07441-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madness from the poison cabinet . in Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 20, 2013, page 17
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Gottfried Helferich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director, multimedia director and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth