bans Winifred from Festspielhaus 323–4, 324
becomes Master (1966) 306
birth (30 August 1919) 137
brief war service 222, 254, 324
business ability 194–5, 269, 290, 303–4, 335
buys a villa on Green Hill, Bayreuth 289–90
childhood 192
claims not to have supported Nazism 203–4
debut Bayreuth production 290–91
debut Staatsoper production 231
directs Bayreuth festival xii, 195, 290–1
(with Wieland), 306–8, 313, 320, 333–6, 341–5
favours Gudrun as the next director 341, 342
feels no sense of accountability 242–3
founds Bayreuther Festspiele GmbH 335
and Friedelind’s master classes 307
and Gertrud 297
and Heritage of Fire 213
hides Wahnfried archive 241, 254
impregnable position 335–6, 342–3
and Katharina 333
and Kristallnacht 203
marriage to Ellen Drexel 231
memoirs 255, 349
moves back to Wahnfried (1946) 254–5
personality 194, 196, 290, 336
post-war productions 290
relationship with Gottfried 286–7, 332, 350
remarriage 333
rows with Wieland in Garmisch 255
and sale of the archive 318
seeks a share of the power in Bayreuth 230
sole cooperation with Wieland and
Tietjen 232
steps down as producer (2002) 345
training course at Berlin Staatsoper 223, 231, 254
treated as a ‘second string’ 204, 223, 230
and Winifred’s interview with Syberberg 322
his workshop 194
written declaration with Wieland (1962) 248, 306
Wagner family
antisemitism of some family members 147
and the Bayreuth repertoire 58
debt-plagued 60
expertise in erasing unwelcome facts 122
German nationalism of non-German members xiii, 6–7
Germany’s most famous family xi holed up in Nussdorf 253
lack of funds, food and fuel 138
many members most comfortable outside Germany xiii-xiv
Nike Wagner on xi-xii
repayment of loans to save Bayreuth festival 39
stays in Italy 51–3
treatment of Levi 63
typisch Deutsch xiii
wealth of 64
Wagner Foundation [proposed] 58, 59
Wagner Societies 58
Wagner tubas 178
Wagner und die Juden (Wagner and the Jews) exhibition (Wahnfried, 1985) 87
Wahnfried, Bayreuth 61, 74, 119, 153, 157, 181, 256, 288
Anja Silja’s visit 301
archive 129, 144, 160, 229, 239, 241, 254, 316, 318, 319, 329–30
badly damaged in Allied bombing strikes 241, 242, 265, 289, 322
Beidler an interloper 123
Bizet shunned 115
Chamberlain as propagandist 90–91, 96–7, 109
Cosima’s death 155
described 136
firework display 204
foundation plan 129, 130
friction with von Gross 138
Gobineau visits 79
Goebbels visits 146, 163–4
guests at 50
Hitler visits 140, 141, 143, 146, 160, 163, 188, 196, 204–5, 233, 263, 270, 286
Hitler’s relationship with the Wagner children 145, 163
ill-named family seat xi impounded 249
‘junior quartet’ loses its home 304–5, 308
mausoleum-like 1
modernised (1950s) 315
orgy of obfuscation 101
paid for by King Ludwig 4, 43
a pro-Nazi preserve 201
proscribed composers 225
quasi-religious dogma 93
RW’s grave in the garden 46, 141, 146, 188, 192, 193, 250, 319, 338
RW’s ‘papal audiences’ 45
and RW’s vegetarianism 77
Tietjen’s visits 196
town of Bayreuth given Wahnfried 319
transformation of 289
US financiers look askance at Nazi contacts 148
US troops at 250
von Gross keen to ensure a clear line of succession 124
Winifred works on the gardens 137–8
Wolfgang and family live in gardener’s cottage (1946) 254–5, 262, 270, 286, 289, 305
‘Wummi’ finds an Ingres portrait 315
Wakefield (merchant ship) 120, 121
Walhalla (Doric temple) 129
Wallich, Isabella 208, 216, 317, 337
Walter, Bruno 150, 164, 167, 169, 248
Wandsworth, south London 44
Wannsee villa (Goebbels’ home) 210
War Office (British) 216
Warburg, Lotte 236–7
Warsaw ghetto uprising 325
Washington, George 201, 210
Weber, Carl Maria von: Der Freischütz 178
Wehrmacht 285
Weill, Kurt 150, 331
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three-penny Opera) 286
Weimar
attitude to Siegfried and Strauss 150
becomes a key centre for new music 29
Liszt as music director 16, 29
Liszt premières Lohengrin 23
Mann’s literary prize 279
Weimar Republic 89, 97, 132, 138–9, 141, 153, 165, 175, 179, 200, 201, 246, 248, 281, 282, 309
Weimar summer festival 344
Weingarten, Elmar 342
Weingartner, Felix 62–3 Weisse Rose (White Rose) 289
Wesendonck, Mathilde 49, 101
at the first Bayreuth festival 45
Cosima demands return of RW’s literary manuscripts 100–101
RW’s affair with 7, 18, 23, 24, 31, 32
Wesendonck, Otto 18
Wessenfels, near Leipzig 25
West Germany see Federal Republic of Germany
Wiesbaden 332–3
Wiesner, Julius 102
Wild, Hans Walter 337
Wilde, Oscar 118, 119, 122
Wilhelm, Crown Prince 173
Wilhelm I, Kaiser xii, 37, 43, 44, 46
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 91, 105–6, 107, 122, 125, 132, 153, 154, 173, 263
Wilhelmine, Margravine 43
Williams-Klindworth, Winifred Marjorie see Wagner, Winifred
Windsor, Prince Edward, Duke of (former King Edward VIII) 210
Wirth, Moritz 62
Wolfram (character) 294
Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair) headquarters, East Prussia 189, 233
Wolzogen, Baron Hans Paul von 94, 96–7, 99, 110, 126, 129
World Cup (football) (Switzerland, 1954) 310
Wotan (character) 41, 61, 81, 149
Wotan (RW’s peacock) 4
Wüllner, Franz 43
Württemberg 65
Würzburg 344
Yalta Conference (1945) 260
Zanzibar 107
Zehetmair, Hans 343, 344
Zeit, Die (weekly) 323
Zelinsky, Hartmut: Richard Wagner – ein deutsches Thema (Richard Wagner a German theme) 329, 330
Zemlinsky, Alexander 167
Zionism 89
Zollverein (a customs union) 13, 20
Zukunft, Die (The Future) 122, 130
Zurich
Beidler family in 246
Hotel Baur au Lac 17
RW’s exile in 17–20, 23, 31, 32
Winifred-Friedelind meeting (1940) 212–14
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