Volume 23, Number 18 · November 11, 1976
'Winnie' and 'Uncle Wolf'
By Robert Craft
Winifred Wagner
a film directed by Hans Jürgen Syberberg
The Wagner Family Albums
by Wolf Siegfried Wagner, translated by Susanne Flatauer
Thames and Hudson (London), 159 pp., £5.95
Richard Wagner in Bayreuth
by Hans Mayer, translated by Jack Zipes
Rizzoli International, 148 pp., $18.50
Wagner: A Documentary Study
edited by Herbert Barth, by Dietrich Mack, by Egon Voss, translated by P.R.J. Ford, by Mary Whittall
Oxford University Press, 256 pp., $37.50
Not 'Winifred Wagner' but 'Hitler and Bayreuth' would have been a more appropriate title for Hans Jürgen Syberberg's five-hour film interview[1] with the widow of the composer's only son Siegfried, the principal subject being not so much the lady herself as her relationship to the Führer during his long involvement with Richard Wagner's Bayreuth. In 1947 a de-Nazification court convicted Winifred of collaboration and forbade her to make public statements; hence this film violates the ruling and breaks a silence of three decades.
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