Katharina Wagner

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Katharina Wagner (l.) And Eva Wagner-Pasquier at the premiere of the Bayreuth Festival 2009

Katharina Friederike Wagner (born May 21, 1978 in Bayreuth ) is a German opera director . She is the artistic director and managing director of the Bayreuth Festival .

Life

Katharina Wagner is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and his second wife Gudrun Mack and therefore great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner and great-great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt . She grew up in Bayreuth, studied theater studies at the Free University of Berlin and worked as an assistant director to Harry Kupfer at the Berlin State Opera and at the Bayreuth Festival ( Meistersinger 1996, Lohengrin 1999, Tannhäuser 2002, Parsifal 2004).

She presented her first directorial work in 2002 in Würzburg. Here and in later productions - all of which were very controversial by the audience and the press - she clearly set herself apart from her father's directorial style. On the occasion of her emphatically provocative Meistersinger in Bayreuth in 2007, she was accused of not having found her artistic profile and of having deficits in directing.

From 2001 Katharina Wagner assisted her father in the field of festival management and was promoted by him as a potential successor. She helped bring new directors such as Christoph Schlingensief to Bayreuth and increased the public relations work of the house - which earned her the accusation of populism. In 2007 she made samples available to journalists for the first time; In 2008 she initiated the direct transmission in sound and image of a festival performance on the Bayreuth Volksfestplatz.

After many years of public discussions about the future of the Bayreuth Festival, some of which were emotionally charged, Wolfgang Wagner agreed in April 2008 to step down in favor of his two daughters - Katharina and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier . The two women, who had never met before, then submitted a joint application to the Board of Trustees , which the Board of Trustees accepted on September 1, 2008 with a majority of 22 votes (with 2 abstentions). Katharina Wagner has been the sole director of the festival since September 2015.

Since the 2010/11 winter semester, Katharina Wagner has been honorary professor for directing at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .

At the end of April 2020 it was announced that Wagner was “ill for a long time” and therefore could not take over the management of the Bayreuth Festival “until further notice”.

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  1. ↑ Peter Roos: The Würzburger Töchterschule. In: The time . August 8, 2002, accessed July 26, 2012 .
  2. ^ Marianne Zelger-Vogt: Tradition, Revolution and Reaction. In: NZZ . July 26, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Midou Grossmann: Urschrei in Franconian. Katharina Wagner claims the festival management. In: klassik.com. August 4, 2007, accessed July 26, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Johanna Adorjan: How young is Bayreuth, Mrs. Wagner? In: FAZ . July 25, 2005. Retrieved July 26, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Helmut Söring: Katharina Wagner - With Mastersingers on the Executive Chair? In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 23, 2007. Retrieved July 26, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b FDP criticizes public viewing in Bayreuth. In: ddp . July 2, 2008, accessed July 26, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Documentation: Wagner's letter of April 8, 2008. In: festspiele.de. Archived from the original on March 7, 2010 ; Retrieved July 26, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Ijoma Mangold: Interview with Katharina Wagner: "It's going absolutely smoothly with my sister". In: ZEITmagazin . August 18, 2011, accessed July 26, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Festival personnel: Half-sister duo takes over management in Bayreuth , Spiegel.de, September 1, 2008
  10. ↑ Festival director Eva Wagner-Pasquier says goodbye. News from August 28, 2015 on br.de. ( Memento of August 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  11. ↑ Katharina Wagner “long-term disease” , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on April 27, 2020.
  12. ↑ http://www.bayern.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Europa-Medaille-2016.pdf
  13. ^ Tannhäuser in Leipzig, planned March 2018 ( Memento from March 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/wagner-scheitert-an-wagner-kein-tannhaeuser-in-leipzig/20689422.html
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagner, Katharina Friederike (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera director
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth