Nike Wagner

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Nike Wagner (born June 9, 1945 in Überlingen on Lake Constance) is a German journalist , dramaturge and from 2004 to 2013 director of the Weimar Art Festival , to which she named “  Pèlerinages  ”.

Nike Wagner giving a lecture in Linz, Austria on February 26, 2014

Life

Nike Wagner grew up as the third child of Wieland Wagner and his wife, the dancer and choreographer Gertrud Wagner, geb. Reissiger (1916–1998), from 1946 in Richard Wagner's Wahnfried house in Bayreuth . She is a granddaughter of Siegfried Wagner , great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner and great-great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt . In Munich , Berlin and the USA (where she also “ tried her hand as a composer of electronic music ”) she studied music, theater and literature; At the same time, she was an editorial assistant for NDR television in 1967/68 . At Northwestern University in Illinois , where she worked from 1971 to 1974 as a teaching assistant, she received her doctorate in 1973 with a study on Karl Kraus ; Her doctoral supervisor was the Austrian émigré Erich Heller (1911–1990).

Nike Wagner has been a freelance writer since 1975; she participated in numerous symposia and colloquia on music and literature at home and abroad. From 1984 to 1986 she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 2001 she was offered the office of Senator for Culture in Hamburg. Since her demands for an increase in the Hanseatic city's cultural budget were not heard, she canceled. In 2002 she was visiting professor at Oxford; In 2003 she joined the German Bundestag's "Culture in Germany" commission as an external expert . In 2002/03 she accompanied Herbert Wernicke and David Alden's production of the Ring at the Bavarian State Opera as a dramaturge . In 2004 she took over the overall artistic direction of the Weimar Art Festival .

Nike Wagner repeatedly sharply criticized the long-time director of the Bayreuth Festival , her uncle Wolfgang Wagner , and made claims to take over his office. In 1999 she applied for this, initially together with Elmar Weingarten , then with Peter Ruzicka , in 2008 initially with Eva Wagner-Pasquier , then - shortly before the application deadline - with Gerard Mortier . When the Bayreuth Foundation Council voted on September 1, 2008 with a majority of 22 votes (with 2 abstentions) for Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner as festival directors, Nike Wagner had a prepared declaration distributed in which she spoke of a "strange procedure" . Your criticism was rejected by the chairman of the board of trustees. In May 2013, the city of Bonn proposed Nike Wagner for the directorship of the Bonn Beethoven Festival. On May 22, 2013, the culture committee and one day later the council unanimously agreed. On January 1, 2014, Wagner succeeded Ilona Schmiel, who moved to the Tonhalle in Zurich. In mid-2019 it was announced that Wagner did not want to extend her contract, which ran until 2020.

Nike Wagner has lived in Vienna since 1986 . Her first marriage was to the actor and screenwriter Jean Launay . Their daughter Louise Wagner (* 1981) works as a dancer, choreographer and set designer. Nike Wagner's second husband is the musicologist Jürg Stenzl (* 1942).

Honors, memberships

Publications

  • Wolf Siegfried Wagner, Gertrud Wagner, Nike Wagner: The story of our family in pictures, Bayreuth 1876–1976 . Rogner & Bernhard, Munich 1976.
  • Spirit and gender. Karl Kraus and the eroticism of Viennese modernism . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1982 ( dissertation ).
  • Man, don't be so hysterical . Matthes and Seitz, Munich 1991 (collection of articles).
  • Nike Wagner (Ed.): About Wagner. Of musicians, poets and lovers. An anthology . Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-009423-2 .
  • Wagner Theater . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-458-16898-2 (new edition: Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-39579-3 ).
  • Dream theater: scenarios of modernity . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-458-17069-3 .

Movies

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstfest Weimar - Official website
  2. ↑ le pèlerinage [relig.] - the pilgrimage, the pilgrimage
    Johannes Saltzwedel: Nike Wagner: “I was strongly attacked” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 2004, p. 138 ( online ). Quote: “I find the place, its history and its fractures fascinating. For me, Weimar is a symbol of the cultural transition, station and experiment at the same time. That is why the art festival is now called '  Pèlerinages'  , after Liszt's early piano cycle '  Années de pèlerinage'  , which in Goethic could be translated as 'years of traveling'. "
  3. ^ Carr, p. 414.
  4. ↑ Nike Wagner and Mortier explain their concept . In: FAZ , August 27, 2008
  5. ↑ Festival personnel: Half-sister duo takes over management in Bayreuth , Spiegel.de, September 1, 2008
  6. ↑ “Unter uns Prayer Sisters” , Der Tagesspiegel , September 1, 2008
  7. ↑ "We still need money". ( Memento from September 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Nordbayerischer Kurier , September 2, 2008
  8. ^ City of Bonn media portal of May 8, 2013: Nike Wagner is to become the director of the Beethoven Festival in Bonn , accessed on May 9, 2013
  9. ↑ Bonn City Council approves the appointment of Dr. Nike Wagner too . City of Bonn, May 24, 2013; Retrieved May 24, 2013
  10. ^ Jan Brachmann: Farewell to the Beethovenfest. In: www.faz.net. July 5, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ PH Heidelberg appoints Dr. Nike Wagner as honorary professor (PDF)
  12. ↑ Bonner Bröckemännche for the Beethovenfest director. State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, January 25, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Nike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Überlingen on Lake Constance