Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth
by Brigitte Hamann
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How an eighteen-year-old British orphan married into the Wagner family and became one of Hitler's closest confidantsTags
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Brigitte Hamann is a Ph.D. and specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century history, specifically of Austrian history. She is the author of many books in German. (In English: The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and Bertha von Suttner: A Life for Peace.) She lives in Vienna.
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- Canonical title*
- Winifred Wagner oder Hitlers Bayreuth
- People/Characters
- Winifred Wagner; Adolf Hitler; Richard Wagner; Cosima Wagner; Siegfried Wagner
- Important places
- Bavaria, Germany; Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
- First words*
- Als mich im Frühjahr 1997 der mir persönlich unbekannte Wolfgang Wagner telephonisch fragte, ob ich nicht in Bayreuth einen Vortrag zum 100. Geburtstag seiner Mutter Winifred halten wolle, zögerte ich keine Sekunde und sag... (show all)te nein.
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- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 792.5 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera Opera, dramatic vocal forms
- LCC
- ML429 .W136 .H3613 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
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- ISBNs
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