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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.
Mar 11, 2007 · Her enthralling and repellent story is now told by the Viennese historian Brigitte Hamann in this remarkable biography, “Winifred Wagner.”
May 7, 2024 · Winifred Wagner was a British-born German cultural figure who directed the Bayreuth Festival of Richard Wagner’s operatic works from 1930 to 1944 and gained notoriety for her friendship with Adolf Hitler. As a child, Winifred was adopted by the then-elderly musician Charles Klindworth and his wife.
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A documentary film about the late wife of Richard Wagner's son and Hitler's friend. Winifred Wagner defends her admiration for Hitler and denies his responsibility for the atrocities of Nazism.
Surrounded by the cultural trappings of German nationalism and reverence for Wagner's music she became friends with Adolf Hitler and, after the war, as a party member she was tried and...
Winifred Marjorie Wagner, geborene Williams (* 23. Juni 1897 in Hastings, England; † 5. März 1980 in Überlingen ), war eine britisch-deutsche Festspielleiterin und die einzige Schwiegertochter des 1883 gestorbenen Komponisten Richard Wagner. In den Jahren 1930 bis 1944 war sie die Leiterin der Bayreuther Richard-Wagner-Festspiele.
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Jan 1, 2006 · Viennese historian Hamann's important biography tells the complex story of Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, who headed the Bayreuth opera festival during Hitler's rule.
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- Brigitte Hamann
