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tion an insincere public relations effort.
Wolfgang and his brother Wieland
Gottfried initially went to Israel to
each produced their grandfather's
lecture about music history and
operas and symphonies as rivals there.
Richard Wagner. "The case for
Occasionally, their enmity escalated
Wagner's music to be performed in
into full-blown civil war, which
Israel should never be made," says
according to Gottfried, was exacerbat-
Gottfried. "His theories and life
ed by the fact that Wieland's inspired
should always be known. We must
productions frequently eclipsed
never kosher Wagner."
Wolfgang's more pedestrian versions.
His regular trips to Israel have
Gottfried ultimately holds his
taken on the solemnity of pilgrimages.
father Wolfgang accountable for reha-
He writes, "I [have] now started to
bilitating Richard Wagner's reputation
see
Israel as a central motif in the
through historical revisionism and
mosaic of my life. [While in Israel] I
outright denial of the family's Nazism.
became more open to the truth of
Winifred Wagner, says Gottfried,
Nazi atrocities."
provided Hitler with
That truth gave
the paper on which he
him the strength to
wrote Mein Kampf in
co-found the Post-
prison, but her son
Holocaust Dialogue
Wolfgang, who still
Group — a gather-
runs the Bayreuth
ing of second-gen-
Festival, is quick to
eration survivors of
whitewash such details.
the Holocaust and
''":0:;$
His was an attitude
their German coun-
contrary to Germany's
terparts.
consistent efforts to
"We, the chil-
confronts its Nazi past
dren of the victims
and educate its children
FANIII
and the children of
about the Third Reich,
the victimizers,"
says his son. Gottfried
begins the group's
remembers one of those
GOTTFRIED
charter, "see the
efforts as a school out-
Shoah/Holocaust as
ing in which he and
a
unique rift in
classmates were con-
Western
and world
fronted with the
civilization and the
Holocaust while watch- At the top of the dust jacket,
Richard Wagner's oorandsons
starting point of a
ing a documentary.
Wieland and Wolfgang (Go 'eds new morality in
The film featured an
father) flank Adolph Hitler, whom terms of thoughts,
American soldier enter-
they called "Uncle Wolf"
feelings and
ing Buchenwald. Later
actions."
on in the film,
Gottfried
Wagner
lives in self-
Gottfried's grandmother, uncle and
imposed exile outside of Milan with
aunt greet Hitler. The images of his rel-
his Italian wife and adopted son. It is
atives on screen were "frightening
for the most part a quiet life. Yet it is a
specters," ones that have haunted
life forged from a personal rage and a
Gottfried all of his life.
public determination to find a "middle
In the 1970s, Gottfried earned his
path between the desire to live and the
degree in musicology and further
desire to die, through knowing about
alienated his father by focusing on the
the Holocaust." I I
work of the German Jewish composer
Kurt Weill. Gottfried's musical career,
however, has been uneven, a source of
The Detroit Symphony
deep frustration that he attributes to
Orchestra will perform Richard
his father's powerful connections.
Wagner's "Overture to The Flying
These days he is estranged from his
Dutchman" 8 p.m. Saturday, July
family and persona non grata at
31, at Meadow Brook Music
Bayreuth. Father and son stopped
Festival as part of a program
speaking altogether after Gottfried's
titled "The Planets — With
first trip to Israel in 1990.
Astronomic Projections." Other
Ironically, the 80-year-old Wolfgang,
selections — accompanied by
as director of the Beyreuth festival —
big-screen projections of video
and perhaps in response to Israel's
footage and still photos from
banning of the music of Wagner —
NASA — include works by
invited Jewish conductor Daniel
Adams, Barber, Strauss and
Barenboim to perform there in an
Hoist. $8-$50. (248) 645-6666.
attempt to reconcile Beyreuth and
the Jews. Gottfried labeled the invita-
T...Ws, 3.

John Tanasyehuk Detroit Free Press
January 8th, 1999

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