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Ludwig Heinrich Christian Geyer (21 January 1779 – 30 September 1821) was a German actor, playwright, and painter. Life and career. Born in Eisleben, he was the stepfather of composer Richard Wagner, whose biological father had died some six months after his birth.
Jun 1, 2006 · This was Ludwig Geyer, an actor who adopted and raised the young Richard after marrying his widowed mother, and who may well have been both the boy’s biological father and of Jewish descent....
- Tom Tugend
Ludwig Geyer – The ‘Acting’ Father. At this time a man named Ludwig Geyer entered the world of the widowed Johanna and her nine children which was fortuitous at this terribly difficult time. Geyer was a painter and actor who had been a lodger in the Wagner household for some years sharing Carl and Johanna’s interest in the theatre.
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Aug 8, 2023 · Richard's mother Johanna, the daughter of a baker, then married the painter Ludwig Geyer, who encouraged the young boy to pursue a career in music. Johanna and Geyer had long been conducting an extra-marital affair, and some historians suggest that Geyer was actually Wagner's father.
- Mark Cartwright
Apr 23, 2021 · His "official" father was the police actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner, but the boy's adoptive father, the actor-painter Ludwig Geyer (who adopted the child on Carl Friedrich's death in November 1813, when Wagner was just six months old), was likely his biological father and was, in all likelihood, at least part Jewish—a fact Wagner did not ...
It is suggested that he was the son of Ludwig Geyer, rather than his legal father Carl Friedrich Wagner, and some of his biographers have proposed that Wagner himself believed that Geyer was Jewish. A belief also exists that his fatal heart attack followed an argument with his wife Cosima over the singer Carrie Pringle , with whom some claim he ...
She and her family moved to Geyer's residence in Dresden. Until he was fourteen, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer. He almost certainly thought that Geyer was his biological father. Geyer's love of the theatre came to be shared by his stepson, and Wagner took part in his performances.
