Gottfried Wagner Multimedia Director and Publisher Gottfried Wagner is a musicologist, multimedia director and publisher. He works internationally as a lecturer of music and politics. He completed his PhD in Vienna and is now based close to Milan. His studies are centered on German culture and politics of the 19th and 20th century, in connection with Jewish culture and history. He has published on Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and taught in universities and cultural institutions on five continents, receiving awards for his artistic, academic and humanitarian involvements. He was engaged with the post-Shoah opera Lost Childhood, with music by Janice Hamer and libretto by Mary Azrael, which which was developed since 1992 and first presented in 2014. His autobiography The Twilights of the Wagners was translated into 7 languages. His last book Thou shalt have no other gods beside me. Richard Wagner – A minefield was published in Germany in 2013 and in Poland in 2014. He is active in an Italian music therapy group for Alzheimer patients. Participant In: Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide Saturday, May 2, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » What does it mean to be a survivor of the traumatic violence of war and genocide, as victim or perpetrator—or descendant of either? What are the implications for the individual and collective conscience of doing violence to others sanctioned by the state or consecrated—or condemned—by one’s culture or that of other cultures?
Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide Saturday, May 2, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm Past Event Watch the video » What does it mean to be a survivor of the traumatic violence of war and genocide, as victim or perpetrator—or descendant of either? What are the implications for the individual and collective conscience of doing violence to others sanctioned by the state or consecrated—or condemned—by one’s culture or that of other cultures?