Gottfried Wagner

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.