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News from the Members

25.06.2018
The published version of "Richard Wagner as a Politician/Revolutionary" is now available
The WS Munich has now published the output from its successful symposium held in 2016.
The WS Munich has published the lectures from its successful symposium Keynote Wagner held in 2016 entitled "Richard Wagner as politician/revolutionary" and has produced this as a single booklet (AVAILABLE IN GERMAN ONLY).

Wagner Society Chairs can get copies free of charge at the exhibition "Richard Wagner Revolutions" from 28.07. to 11.08.18 in Bayreuth.

Copies will be offered for sale at 15 € in the exhibition and - hopefully - also in one or the other bookstore in Bayreuth during the estival. 
 
The following lectures are included:
  • Wagner's total work of art and the ancient Greek drama - Dr. Alexandros Diamantis
  • Wagner and his Aesthetic World Order - Prof. Dr. Udo Bermbach
  • Richard Wagner, the revolutionary - A speculative series of pictures - Herbert Rauh
  • What does Richard Wagner have to do with communism? Prof. Dr. Eckart Kröplin
  • Parsifal's mission - Ludwig II and his political whisperer - Dr. Verena Naegele
The WS Munich wishes you fruitful reading.
 
The next symposium Keynote Wagner 2019 (to be held in Schloss Fürstenried on the outskirts of Munich) is already on the horizon, entitled: "Richard Wagner and Theology"