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The surname Wagner is derived from the Germanic surname Waganari, meaning ' wagonmaker ' or ' wagon driver. ' The surname is German but is also well-established in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, eastern Europe, and elsewhere as well as in all German-speaking countries, and among Ashkenazi Jews.
Wagner's birthplace, at 3, the Brühl, Leipzig Richard Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 to an ethnic German family in Leipzig, then part of the Confederation of the Rhine.His family lived at No 3, the Brühl (The House of the Red and White Lions) in Leipzig's Jewish quarter.
Wagner's father died of typhus six months after Richard's birth, by which time Wagner's mother was living with the actor and playwright Ludwig Geyer in the Brühl, at that time the Jewish quarter of Leipzig. Johanna and Geyer married in August 1814, and for the first 14 years of his life, Wagner was known as Wilhelm Richard Geyer.
He had one older sister, Mary Scott (1926–2023). [3] [4] Wagner's mother came from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Her parents were both immigrants from Norway, who married in La Crosse in 1887. [5] Wagner's father was a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan. His parents were from Germany. [6] The family moved to Bel-Air, an upscale area of Los Angeles, in ...
In a 2009 interview, Katharina Wagner, the composer's great-granddaughter and co-director of the Bayreuth Festival, was asked whether she believed Wagner relied on Jewish stereotypes in his operas. Her response was, "With Beckmesser he probably did."
Title page of the second edition of Das Judenthum in der Musik, published in 1869 "Das Judenthum in der Musik" (German for Judaism in Music, but perhaps more accurately understood in contemporary language as Jewishness in Music), [1] is an antisemitic essay by composer Richard Wagner which criticizes the influence of Jews and their "essence" on European art music, arguing that they have not ...
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Gustav Franz Wagner [1] (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer). [2] [3] Wagner was a deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where 200,000-250,000 Jews were murdered in the camp's gas chambers during Operation Reinhard [citation needed].