__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 ...

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

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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 British film director

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has made a two-hour documentary film about the Wagner family in which Gottfried plays a key role.

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*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 Ralph Giordano (23 March 1923 – 10 December 2014) was a German writer and publicist. Life and career Giordano was born to a Sicilian father and a German Jewish mother in Hamburg. He attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to ...

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

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