Gottfried Wagner

Gottfried Wagner (born 13 April 1947 in Bayreuth)^[1] is a multimedia director and publicist.

Gottfried Wagner is the son of Wolfgang Wagner and a great-grandchild of Richard Wagner. His PhD is about Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. He has concentrated on German culture and politics, as well as Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries in numerous publications. He is a member of the PEN-Club Liechtenstein and in 1992 was a co-founder of the Post-Holocaust Discussion Group.

He has been living in Italy since 1993, and has estranged himself from his father's family, openly criticising their involvement with the Nazi regime. The British film director Tony Palmer has made a two-hour documentary film about the Wagner family in which Gottfried plays a key role.

Publications

• Gottfried Wagner, Wer nicht mit dem Wolf heult. Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines Wagner-Urenkels. (He who does not howl with the wolf: Autobiographical Notes from a Wagner Great-Grandchild) Foreword by Ralph Giordano. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997. ISBN 3-462-02622-4
• Gottfried Wagner, Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy, Picador, 1999. ISBN 0312264046

Further reading

• Carr, Jonathan: The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. ISBN 0871139758

See also

• Wagner family tree

References

Sources

• Much of the information in this article comes from the German-language Wikipedia article.

External links

• Gottfried Wagner's homepage
• Interview with Gottfried Wagner on the European Commission web site
• Stanley, Alessandra (30 March 1999). "The Wagner Story Isn't Music to This Wagner's Ears". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E4D71130F933A05750C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print.