‘My dear, dear friend and Führer!’
Jeremy Adler: Winifred Wagner, 6 July 2006
Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth
by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Alan Bance.
Granta, 582 pp., £12.99, June 2006,1 86207 851 3 Show More
by Brigitte Hamann, translated by Alan Bance.
Granta, 582 pp., £12.99, June 2006,
“... In this, the first major biography of Wagner’s daughter-in-law, Brigitte Hamann tries very hard to be fair to a subject who, one might think, scarcely deserves it. It would be hard to find a better example than the Wagner dynasty of the continuity between the myth of a glorious Germany and its terrible enactment ... ”