Bayreuther Blätter ( Bayreuth pages ) was a monthly journal founded in by Richard Wagner 1878 and edited by Hans von Wolzogen until his death in 1938. It was written primarily for visitors to the Bayreuth Festival .
15-426: The newsletter carried frequent articles by Wagner himself as well as contributions from many of his circle. Some of these were very substantial; for example, Wagner's essays Religion and Art (October 1880) and Heroism and Christianity (September 1881). From 1880 to 1896 the journal carried extracts from the detailed recollections by Heinrich Porges of Wagner's rehearsal and staging techniques. The journal also had
30-1085: A political focus. In its pages, writers expressed support for Otto von Bismarck and the German Empire . After Germany's defeat in World War I , it showed opposition to the Weimar Republic , eventually supporting Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany . Great men of German cultural history were celebrated in the Bayreuther Blätter . From 1887, each issue began with an epigraph from such men. The majority were taken from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Schiller , Arthur Schopenhauer , Wagner, Franz Liszt , Thomas Carlyle , and Martin Luther . Others, like Carl von Clausewitz , Houston Stewart Chamberlain , Paul von Hindenburg , Paul de Lagarde and Hitler, were also drawn upon. In its last years, it increasingly "nazified" Wagner, linking his work with
45-522: A special typewriter for the blind to write a detailed account of her confinement in the camp's Prominentenhaus , or House of Notables . More than five decades after her death, the typescript was discovered by accident and published in German under the title of, Das Leben als Drama. Erinnerungen an Theresienstadt . Bernstein died, aged 82, in 1949 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel . Although buried in
60-667: A traditional opera setting that debuted in German at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in December 1910. That version is still performed. Almost certainly at the instigation of Winifred Wagner , Bernstein was awarded an exit visa for the United States in 1941, but refused to leave her sister Gabriele behind (who like Elsa had lost almost all her eyesight) as she had become her caretaker. Being of Jewish heritage,
75-590: Is considered to have been the cycle's youngest audience member. With her marriage to journalist Max Bernstein , she became hostess to one of the most notable musical and literary salons of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At various times, attendees included Gerhart Hauptmann (whose son married Bernstein's daughter, Eva), Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Engelbert Humperdinck , Henrik Ibsen , Annette Kolb , Hermann Levi , Alma and Gustav Mahler , Thomas Mann , Rainer Maria Rilke , Richard Strauss , Bruno Walter , and Max Weber , among many others. She
90-570: The Bayreuther Blätter may yet prove to be of no little cultural-historical significance ... The future cultural historian of Germany will be able to give authentic testimony, on the basis of the first five volumes of this journal, of how strongly the delirium tremens of the Wagnerian intoxication raged amongst us, and what sort of abnormalities of thought and feeling it occasioned in the 'cultured' people of its time Heinrich Porges Heinrich Porges (November 25, 1837 – November 17, 1900)
105-603: The arts pages of the Süddeutsche Presse in Muncih. He remained there as music critic of the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten from 1880. Porges became a devotee and intimate of Richard Wagner despite Wagner's antisemitism, and his extensive notes on Wagner's rehearsal and staging were published in the journal Bayreuther Blätter over the period 1880-1896. His study of Tristan und Isolde
120-460: The beauty of the theme and its poetry were such as to class it with Ludwig Fulda 's Der Talisman . Although Engelbert Humperdinck was dissatisfied with his first concert setting of Königskinder in 1897, an avant-garde melodrama that demanded an innovative " speak-singing " technique from its soloists (despite production challenges, it nevertheless enjoyed more than 120 performances across Europe), he persuaded Bernstein, in 1907, to authorize
135-535: The ideology of National Socialism . The Bayreuther Blätter remains an important source of information about the Bayreuth Festival in Wagner's last years and about the opinions of his devoted followers. The critic Eduard Hanslick wrote in 1882: For a later age, which will be able to look back at the Wagner epidemic of our days in a spirit of calm evaluation, if also one of incredulous astonishment,
150-405: The pseudonym of Ernst Rosmer, her identity as the author of the play was never secret.) Her next few plays fell short of exciting the same public attention: Dämmerung ("Twilight", 1893); Die Mutter Maria , 1894; Tedeum (1896); Themistokles (1897); and Daguy Peters . Unbounded admiration was elicited by Königskinder (1895), a dramatic fairy-tale, however. Although its plot was simple,
165-484: The two women were transported to Dachau arriving on 25 June 1942, where Bernstein was recognized as the prominent author of Königskinder . As a result, the sisters were sent the following day to Theresienstadt . Gabriele died while they were imprisoned there. Bernstein is listed among those prisoners whose works are noted in the Theresienstadt Papers . After her liberation in 1945, Elsa Bernstein used
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#1732772806314180-629: Was a Czech - Austrian choirmaster , music critic and writer of Jewish descent. Heinrich Porges was born in Prague , the son of Simon Porges (1801–1869) and his wife Charlotte. He originally studied Philosophy and Law in Prague, later turning to music. In 1863 he became an assistant of the critic Franz Brendel in editing the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in Leipzig . In 1867 he produced
195-519: Was an Austrian - German writer, dramatist , and literary figure. Elsa Porges was born in Vienna, a daughter of Heinrich Porges (a close friend of Richard Wagner ). At the age of ten, at her own insistence, she attended the first complete, four-opera performance of The Ring Cycle in Bayreuth in 1876, for which her father served as Wagner's special documentary-archivist. In opera tradition, Elsa
210-461: Was educated at Munich and for a short time, also was on the stage. A degenerative affliction of the eyes forced her to retire. Thenceforth she devoted herself to dramatic literature . Shortly after her marriage in 1892 to Max Bernstein , she wrote her first play, Wir Drei (English: "We Three"), which created considerable discussion; some saw it as a dramatization of the matrimonial and sexual views of Taine and Zola . (Although written under
225-631: Was published after his death in 1906 by Hans von Wolzogen . He received a life pension from King Ludwig II of Bavaria . in 1886 he formed the 'Porges Choir ' to promote the music of his favoured composers including Hector Berlioz and Anton Bruckner . Porges married Wilhelmine Merores; the writer Elsa Bernstein was their daughter. His death in 1900 occurred during a rehearsal of Franz Liszt 's oratorio , Christus , at Munich . Elsa Bernstein Elsa Bernstein (née Porges ; pseudonym, Ernst Rosmer ; 27 October 1866 – 2 July 1949)
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