Tuesday April 29, 2008
DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE: Gottfried Wagner, Keynote Speaker
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 / 8 pm / Kenan Auditorium
Tickets: $12 general public / $10 Educator Rate / $6 Student Rate
Tickets and information available at the Kenan Auditorium box office 910.962.3500 or 800.732.3643.
This program is part of Days of Remembrance 2008, a week long series of lectures, films, performances, outreach and exhibits surrounding Yom HaShoah, a time of remembrance for those who died in the Holocaust. In 2008, Yom HaShoah will be commemorated throughout the world on May 2nd.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Dr. Gottfried Wagner, great-grandson of composer Richard Wagner and highly-acclaimed author, musicologist and humanitarian, speaks about his family's close cooperation with the Third Reich, his personal struggle to confront that history, and the creation of his internationally regarded Post-Holocaust Dialogue Groups
PROFILE
Gottfried H.Wagner, born in 1947 in Bayreuth, studied musicology, philosophy and German philology in Germany and Austria and made his PHD on Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht at the University of Vienna, published later as a book in Germany, Italy and Japan. At the centre of his studies are German culture and politics of the 19th and 20th century, in connection with Jewish culture and history. His studies have been published in 11 languages. He works internationally as a multimedia director and writer. He has received numerous awards for his artistic and academic activities, as well as for his humanitarian involvements, and is member of the Austrian and Liechtenstein Pen Club.
In 1992, Wagner co-founded with Dr. Abraham Peck "The Post- Holocaust Dialogue Group". His autobiography "The Twilights of the Wagners ", published first in Germany in 1997, created world-wide interest and was translated into 7 languages.
Since 1983 he has been living in Italy. He is co-author of the book "Our Zero Hour: German and Jews after 1945--Family History, Holocaust and New Beginnings Historial Memoirs" published in 2006. In that same year, Wagner also published "Redemption from the Redeemer: Israel and Richard Wagner."
Photo of Gottfried Wagner
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