__NOTOC__ Gottfried Wagner (born 13 April 1947 in Bayreuth) is a multimedia director and publicist. Gottfried Wagner is the son of

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 d ...

and a great-grandchild of

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

. His

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is about

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and

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. 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

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and in 1992 was a co-founder of the Post-

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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

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regime."He who does not howl with the Wolf", an English-language interview with Gottfried Wagner, Radio Netherlands Archives, April 3, 1998
/ref> 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

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,Kate Connoll
"'Lost son' Gottfried Wagner reopens the family feud over Bayreuth"
''The Observer'', 4 April 2010Martin Kettl
"The twilight of the Wagners"
''The Guardian'', 8 June 2000 while he has also been critical of many aspects of the

Bayreuth Festival The Bayreuth Festival (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived ...

. The British film director

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Retrieved 24 September 2011 is a British film direc ...

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. *Gottfried Wagner, ''Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy'', Picador, 1999. (English version of the above) *Gottfried Wagner "Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben neben mir. Richard Wagner - Ein Minenfeld", Propyläen, 2013.

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

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Gottfried Wagner's homepageInterview with Gottfried Wagner
on the

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web site * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Gottfried People from Bayreuth 1947 births Living people

Gottfried Gottfried is a masculine German given name. It is derived from the Old High German name , recorded since the 7th century. The name is composed of the elements (conflated from the etyma for 'God' and 'good', and possibly further conflated with ) a ...

German people of French descent German people of Hungarian descent German people of English descent

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