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Wagner Family
The family of the composer Richard Wagner: Family of Carl Friedrich Wagner Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1770–1813), a police actuary ∞ 1798 (1778–1848), daughter of a baker (after being widowed, in 1814 she became the partner of the painter, actor and writer Ludwig Geyer (1779–1821), whose rumoured paternity of Richard Wagner is neither substantiated nor disproved). # Albert Wagner (1799–1874), opera singer and stage director ∞ 1828 Elise Gollmann (1800–1864) ## Franziska Wagner (1829–1895) ∞ 1854 Alexander Ritter (1833–1896), musician and composer ## Marie Wagner (1831–1876) ∞ 1851 Karl Jacoby, merchant ## Johanna Wagner (adopted) (1828–1894), daughter of Eduard Freiherr von Bock von Wülfingen, opera singer and actress ∞ 1859 Alfred Jachmann (1829–1918), district administrator # Carl Gustav Wagner (1801–1802) # (1803–1837), actress ∞ 1836 Oswald Marbach (1810–1890), university professor # Carl Julius Wagner (1804–1862) # (180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagner Family 1881
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the ''Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("total work of art"), whereby he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. The drama was to be presented as a continuously sung narrative, without conventional operatic structures like Aria, arias and Recitative, recitatives. He described this vision in a List of prose works by Richard Wagner, series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Wagner
Winifred Marjorie Wagner (née Williams; 23 June 1897 – 5 March 1980) was the English-born wife of Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, and ran the Bayreuth Festival after her husband's death in 1930 until the end of World War II in 1945. She was a friend and supporter of Adolf Hitler, himself a Wagner enthusiast, and she and Hitler maintained a regular correspondence. Biography Early life and marriage to Siegfried Wagner Wagner was born Winifred Marjorie Williams in Hastings, to John Williams, a Welsh journalist and critic, and his English-Danish wife, Emily Florence Williams, née Karop. Orphaned before the age of two, she initially was raised in a number of homes. Eight years later, she was adopted by a distant German relative of her mother, Henrietta Karop, and her husband Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of Richard Wagner. The Bayreuth Festival was seen as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagner to his son Siegfried, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharina Wagner
Katharina Wagner (born 21 May 1978 in Bayreuth) is a German opera stage director and is the director of the Bayreuth Festival. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and Gudrun Wagner (née Armann), great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, and great-great granddaughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Career Wagner has staged '' Der fliegende Holländer'' in Würzburg and '' Lohengrin'' in Budapest. Her directorial début at the Bayreuth Festival, staging a production of Richard Wagner's '' Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' in July 2007, was booed at its premiere, but established a following which returned to watch the production evolve as Wagner made changes in each of the five years it was on view. Wagner also took a bow after every performance, with audiences split between bravas and boos. On 1 September 2008, Katharina Wagner was named together with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier as the new director of the Bayreuth Festival by the Richard Wagner Foundation, succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gudrun Wagner
Gudrun Wagner (''née'' Armann; 15 June 1944 – 28 November 2007) was the second wife of Wolfgang Wagner, sole director of the Bayreuth Festival since 1967. Her behind-the-scenes influence led her to be considered virtual co-director. Biography Wagner was born as Gudrun Armann in Allenstein, East Prussia. She grew up in Lower Bavaria near Regensburg, where she was moved at the age of four weeks because of World War II. She worked as a secretary in the press department of the Bayreuth Festival from 1965. In 1970 she married Dietrich Mack, editor of Cosima Wagner's diary. She later became the assistant of Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festival which the composer founded. She and Wolfgang Wagner each divorced their spouses in order to marry each other in 1976. Their daughter Katharina, who succeeded her father as co-director of the festival, was born in 1978. Although officially keeping a low profile, she exercised influence on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gottfried Wagner
__NOTOC__ Gottfried Wagner (born 13 April 1947 in Bayreuth) 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 1983, and has estranged himself from his father's family, openly criticising their involvement with the Nazi regime. His book ''Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy'', an autobiography, queried the extent to which his father had extricated himself from the family's close connection to National Socialism,Kate Connoll"'Lost son' Gottfried Wagner reopens the family feud over Bayreuth" ''The Observer'', 4 April 2010Martin Kettl"The twilight of the Wag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Wagner
Antoine Amadeus Wagner-Pasquier ( , ; 1982) is an American-French visual artist. He works between Woodstock, NY, and Paris, France. His work uses visual language drawn from nature, which refers to mythological narratives and the sublime. Early life and education Wagner was born in Evanston, Illinois. He is the son of German opera manager Eva Wagner-Pasquier and is the great-great-grandson of the composer Richard Wagner. He graduated from Northwestern University, Illinois, and Sciences Po, Paris, with a double bachelor's degree in Theatre and Political Science in 2005. He continued his education in film at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2007. Artwork Wagner's mediums include video, sound, sculpture, performance and photography, which he exhibits through installations, site-specific projects, film, monumental photography and opera. Through the visual language of nature, his work references music, mythology an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Wagner-Pasquier
Eva Wagner-Pasquier (born 14 April 1945, in Oberwarmensteinach) is a German opera manager. She is the daughter of Wolfgang Wagner and Ellen Drexel. She was born by candlelight in her grandmother Winifred's cottage in the Fichtel Mountains. Life and career Following the death of her uncle Wieland Wagner, Wagner-Pasquier acted as her father's assistant at Bayreuth from 1967 to 1975. She discovered the tenor Peter Hofmann and played a key role in the casting and rehearsals for Patrice Chéreau's ''Century Ring'' in 1976. After that, she left the festival because her parents had become estranged as a result of the divorce. In the period that followed, Wagner-Pasquier was an assistant to August Everding and Otto Schenk at the Vienna State Opera, and an opera director at the Royal Opera House. Wagner-Pasquier oversaw more than 30 opera films and 120 concert productions for the Munich-based classical music company Unitel Films until 1984. She was Director of Programming at the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Wagner
Wolfgang Wagner (30 August 191921 March 2010) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he assumed total control until he retired in 2008, although many of the productions which he commissioned were severely criticized in their day. He had been plagued by family conflicts and criticism for many years. He was the son of Siegfried Wagner (the son of Richard Wagner) and he was the great-grandson of Franz Liszt. Biography His mother, Winifred Wagner (''née'' Williams-Klindworth), was English. He was born at Wahnfried, the Wagner family home in Bayreuth in Bavaria. In addition to his elder brother Wieland (1917–66), he had an elder sister Friedelind Wagner (1918–1991), and a younger sister Verena Wagner (1920–2019). During the 1920s Winifred Wagner was an admirer, supporter and friend of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedelind Wagner
Friedelind Wagner (29 March 1918 – 8 May 1991) was the elder daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner. She was also the great-granddaughter of the composer Franz Liszt. Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the nickname Die Maus or Mausi. Along with other members of her family, from early in life Friedelind Wagner was involved with the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. In 1936, Friedelind Wagner began work as an assistant to Heinz Tietjen but her outspoken criticism of close family friend Adolf Hitler — her mother, the English-born Winifred Williams, was a fanatical admirer of Hitler — and the policies of the Third Reich led to her leaving Germany in 1939. She lived for a short time in Switzerland, then emigrated first to England, where she was interned on the Isle of Man from 27 May 1940 till 15 February 1941. Later she began writing anti-Nazi columns for the ''Daily Sketch'' newsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilman Spengler
Tilman Spengler (born 1947) is a German sinologist, writer, and journalist. The author of more than a dozen books, including ''Lenin's Brain'' (1993),original German edition: ''Lenins Hirn. Roman'', Reinbek: Rowohlt Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-498-06256-5 he has received several literary prizes throughout his career, including: * 1999 Mainzer Stadtschreiber * 2003 Ernst-Hoferichter-Preis * 2008 Literaturpreis der Stadt München He is the great-nephew of German philosopher Oswald Spengler and the second husband of actress Daphne Wagner, great-grandson of German composer Richard Wagner. References External links * Tilman Spenglerin: NRW Literatur im Netz NRW Literatur im Netz is a German internet database with short biographies of persons who have lived or worked in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphälische Literaturbüro (Westphalian office for literature) in Unna operates the biggest database ... 1947 births Living people German male writers {{Germany-writer-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udo Proksch
Udo Proksch (29 May 1934 – 27 June 2001) was an Austrian businessman and industrialist. In 1991, he was convicted of the murder of six people as part of a major insurance fraud. Proksch died in prison. ''Lucona'' sinking In 1977, the ship ''Lucona'' sank in the Indian Ocean, after an explosion, killing six people. Proksch, the owner of the cargo, also then owner of famous Viennese confectioners' Demel, claimed USD, US$20 million from his insurance company, saying that the ship was carrying expensive uranium mining equipment. Fraud was suspected; but investigations were obstructed by powerful Austrian politicians who were friends of Proksch. In 1988, Proksch fled to the Philippines after Hans Pretterebner published a book about the scandal. In 1989, he returned to Vienna incognito, but was recognized and arrested. In 1990, ''Lucona'' was located by American shipwreck hunter David Mearns, who discovered that the ship had been sunk by a time bomb. On 11 March 1991, Proks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jürg Stenzl
Jürg Thomas Stenzl (born 23 August 1942) is a Swiss musicologist, and university professor. Life Born in Basel, Stenzl began his musical education in 1949, first took flute and violin lessons. From 1961 he studied oboe with Walter Huwyler and from 1963 to 1968 musicology, German literature and philosophy at the University of Bern (with Arnold Geering and Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer) as well as in 1965 at the Sorbonne, where he listened to Jacques Chailley. With his dissertation ''The Forty Clausulae of the Manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale latin 15139 (Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris – Clausulae)'', a work on 13th century music, he was awarded a doctorate in 1968 at the University of Bern. In 1970 the work appeared as a publication of the . From 1969 to his habilitation in 1974 as assistant to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and from 1980 to 1991 as titular professor, he taught musicology at the University of Freiburg. Afterwards he was a representative and visiting schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
