Twilight Of The Wagners. The Unveiling Of A Family's Legacy

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Picador Usa
Publisher Place: United States
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: First Edition

Description: 310 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Richard Wagners great-grandson Gottfried Wagner, born after the end of World War II, was taught to worship his great-grandfather as a cultural ancestor of all of Germany. Richard Wagner inspired a generation of philosophers, cultural critics, and politicians. Perhaps no one took Richard Wagners polemics more to heart than Adolf Hitler, for whom the musician was a foundational influence. In Gottfried Wagners memoir, Twilight of the The Unveiling of a Familys Legacy, Hitler is an inescapable presence, as he was in Gottfrieds family--one of the many specters haunting the Wagner estate, though young Gottfried wondered if he was the only one who could see them. One afternoon he discovered old photographs and oil paintings of Hitler among the family memorabilia. Warned never to mention the pictures to anyone, he became an unwilling coconspirator in his familys secret. Gottfried Wagner reclaimed his voice during adolescence and began an impassioned crusade in adulthood to examine the hatred and racism he knew growing up in Bayreuth. Although disinherited and ostracized by his father, Gottfried has become an outspoken critic of Richard Wagners legacy and a champion of greater understanding between Germans and Holocaust survivors worldwide. With a judicious eye for detail, a sweeping sense of conscience, and the determination to redeem himself and his past, Gottfried Wagner lays bare the sins of this powerful family.

ISBN: 9780312199579