Ah. What exactly was behind hitlers great admiration, firstly shot fog. Now, why was the german knotty dictator such a huge wagner found to be sure in german culture, theres not really any getting around wagner to this day, his works are celebrated by thousands every year at the legendary by white festival and his fans known as bach. Marians pay him homage worldwide, but hitlers lover wagner and his work was extreme. Why did wagner fascinate him so much . Here are 7 reasons. Hitler loved heroic tales. Wagners dramatic oper as reflected hitlers view of himself as an all powerful victor. O hitlers own dashed dreams of b. An artist, hitler, josie shakima, i school hitler, who always saw himself as an artist. I now felt a kind of aesthetic affinity with richard wagner. Wagner, good hitler and wagner were both anti semites. Wagner demonized jews blaming them for everything that only reinforced hitlers own anti semitism. Wagners by white festival energized hitler ever. He considered the borrowed festival the only vacation he had during the year. Hitler apparently drew strength from wagners works. The wagner is were a surrogate family for hitler killed us. He wasnt the fuor at all. Gail wagners operas became the soundtrack of dictatorship, nazi party rallies and air rates. And the news reels of german propaganda. They were accompanied by wagners office war as a theatrical production. Wagner encouraged hitlers megalomania huge orchestras and riveting harmonies, ah, has ever been breton background music for megalomania, for gross in vaughan. But 1st, who was shout wagner anyway . Born in 1813 in leipzig. Hes considered both a genius and any go maniac. His ambition was to recreate opera as a total work of art with he called because im to const back on like most oper composers. He insisted on writing his own bretty along with the scores. And he created bombastic productions. He was the 1st to hide the orchestra down in a pit, and to put the audience in darkness. Listening to opera that ran for up to 16 hours. Wagner had an imposing Festival Hall, built him by white a temple for his music his opera set news standards and became world famous. Ah, they had wagner died in 1883. But to this day, the composer is still revered by millions. The festival holland by white as the place of pilgrimage for wagnerian, from around the world. For a month, each summer, only wagners works are performed. Wagner, wagner, wagner, nothing but wagner. So back to our question, why did hitler idolized we had fog . Lets take a closer look at those 7 reasons. Hitler loved germanic heroic sagas, and thought that no one explored them as well as the shunt wagner. Ah, listen to me. So i am on the one hand, of course there is the music that overwhelming tonal language of the hot wagner, which can penetrate very deeply into the soul. Oh, but then theres also the subject matter which is rooted in germanic met. Whats that in itself . Spoke to hitler, but there was also the idea of redemption, result of overcoming adverse reality, city element reality and so right now, ancient germanic heroic sagas, staged with powerful imagery. In the legendary 16 hour ring of the ne, belong godson, men fight over the rhinegold. A material that imparts absolute power. Oh, the opera low in green, revolves around a legendary night fighting for the trust of his beloved elsa. It made Hitler Wagner fan in 19 o one. O, in his book mind comes. He related the sense of awakening at the age of 12, o, as as the 1st opera of my life lawn, glean captivated me immediately my youthful enthusiasm for the by hoist master, knew no bounds again and again i was drawn to his works in 19 o 5 hitler attended a production of he and see wagners opera about a brave roman politician who wants to save his people. It encouraged hitlers tendency towards megalomania. This village did not off hitlers childhood friend cubic sec, said that after a performance of renzi at the lense, municipal theatre of the 2 climbed up fine bag mountain at night digging signed by law and hitler, and in a kind of rapturous vision under the influence of that performance who could described his idea for germanys future. These are the n c o fuel. A simple man of the people who wants to save the roman empire from decadence. Hitler saw himself in a similar role as the savior of germany. Jamante shove, how someone manages to get at least part of the population behind him, through speaking rhetoric, christmas, or whatever that was inspirational for him. Da swafford in forbes. Ah, but the n cs rise ends in an inglorious fall. The people turn against him and the hero dies tragically. Is that a suitable role model . Okay, doll particular the so hitler said last, i have learned from ramseys fate and because ramsey failed, i thought while he had no power structure, no party behind him does he . He didnt have a powerful force behind entropy and like hitler later had the brown shirts, how did he put i and his, you know, he had the party, the nazi party and then the brown shirts last so he does exactly right. What ramsey did wronged, and thats why it cant happen to him. Interesting argument. Hitler loved heroic figures like low and clean and pnc, and wagners operas fueled hitlers quest for power. Hitlers damaged artistic dreams found refuge and wagner long before he plunged europe into war, hitler tried his hand as a painter. He nazi hitler saw himself primarily as an artist and not necessarily as a politician. Hitler twice applied unsuccessfully to the academy of fine arts in vienna. He made ends meet by selling his own watercolor paintings with ive been may be of he gotten into art School History would have turned out differently. Its useless to contemplate really, but sometimes you do wonder what would have happened if we 11 in 19 o 8, he tried his hand as a composer attempting to complete wagners unfinished opera. V. Lund dash neat little hitler said i will complete. What wagner could not have talked to, of course he failed right from the beginning because he had no craft under. He didnt know how to write music or how to develop it at all. Bob was he convicted with no artistic success, a frustrated hitler devoted himself to politics. The failed artist now lived out his passion for culture. As a wagner fan, hitler and wagner were both and he suddenly. Was it wounded pride or simply envied that fuel deeply shut wagners anger toward james as early as 1850. 00 . He wrote a hate filled pamphlet titled judaism and music, lamenting what he called the corrosive influence of the jews on german culture for over var than the accusations were that there had been a Terrible Development in wagners opinion that the jews had gained too much power. God to bye eugene components. And he claimed it was obvious that jewish composers were innately unproductive zion, that they simply copied what others did, for lack of their own creative productivity, were not martin was under former partners wife, cosima herself, a bitter anti semite, noted wagners hatred of jews in her diaries he says in violent chest, that old jews should burn in a performance of not ah, is this anti semitism reflected in wagners works . Jones might have fish or he is clear indications, especially in the opera. My sizing hung in a singing competition. The character of beck mess are things especially poorly and also steals the other singer songs. Ah, yes is his home, gosh me in judaism and music. Wagner identifies what he calls wailing as a hallmark of synagogue music. Doc become human to op. Cant. He says alice control, can any one sing like that . Thats just offer me here. I think thats what wagner is parodying here. Hot podium from mark o b o. 2 in 2017, the violet festival saw its 1st over production by a jewish director. Australian very kosky home, right in on the difficult subject matter. In his my sizing on a jewish singer is hunted down. Im not dealing with jewish culture, im dealing with the parody of the anti semitism. And the case of big messer, this idea of the send and bark, ah, the sort of the, that the, the person who bears all the responsibility or all the trauma or of, of the fault is, is what i think is the important thing. They make him the jew in my collection. And kosky production holds mud accountable. Ah, i believe wagner has created his own personal hell. Now hes not like 6 of us, rolling that stone up that hill and rolling his personal hell is that he is permanently in a witness box having to justify what he did say or what happened to his music. And thats the position that i think vibe in. Im not sure where he can get out of that. Yet, wagner continues to be celebrated on a grand scale every year at the bible at festival. An important social event for the rich and famous ah, an anti semitic propagandist, celebrated as a german genius. For many jewish musicians, thats a provocation. Eulley gorgie of the band court front was shocked when he came across wagners anti jewish pamphlet. Mackwood strange that the shepherd i thought i must have misunderstood something. Mister. Is this really the same guy . Is this the composer, the wagner, the law as a thing or a sick person with the same name, crow, linden glacier . Well, it was the same person like a balloon while spun to listen to the sweet wagner melody. Grozis response was to reshape musical motifs from wagner into a cynical klezmerson about the love of an israeli for a girl from by white. Every no way could then think of you pharmacists of icons before me, wagner is a symbol of german anti semitism. Often studio plasma is also a stereotype. Newton and we jews in germany, you, we jewish musicians move somewhere in between for official listen, we have to live with it somehow. Only been wagner on the one hand of learners and klezmerson the other as the jewish music, e u. Addition was the fact that wagner is still celebrated in germany today. I find that very problematic, problematic. In israel, wagners music was boycotted for decades. But in 2001 conduct to Daniel Barson been ignored that and played the overture to tristan and decided as an encore in jerusalem a scandal. Now, a group of opera musicians until of eve, has ventured its very own exploration of the shut wagner work. I was speaking with another conductor on an israeli conductor. I said, i am going israel still my 1st time in israel and he said, oh, well im, what are you doing there . I said its an opera called country and he said, do you have security . Do you have a body guard . The country from partners upper party is a heathen who is damned to seduce men for all eternity. Here she becomes a goddess. Its a courageous and contemporary approach to wagner. Me. Oh, the once i got there everybody was definitely open to the idea because starting a dialogue about what wagner really means and, and why hes boy carded and everybody had an opinion. Israel, some people think they absolutely should play it. Some people think absolutely not. But country was a nice way to sort of star dialogue. Oh, wagner, the rabid anti semite was a role model for hitler. That was by light energized hitler. The epicenter of the cult to wagner is by light in southeastern germany. Of course hitler had to be there. They had wagner had his own Festival Hall built here exclusively for his opera. He created a family home here named house van fleet. And here he found his final resting place. Ah, who i and barton of the bio voice is too about marius was from what mecca is to a devout muslim. I might be a place you have to go at least once in a lifetime you them to participate in the authentic performance, whole fuel god. Here one has the feeling of being at the heart of the matter itself. Reside de wagner, the yacht wagnerian, otto, hitler came to buy void for the 1st time. Very early in 1923. Yes. Debach from then on hitler regularly came to buy light in the summer, immersed in a vog neri and frenzy lasting several days, surrounded by the composers descendants. Wagners daughter in law vinnie fred wagner remembered hitlers visits fondly. Ah. M a talk that he considered the week and by royce is his only Vacation Days in the whole year as a by what the notion he enjoyed the time in by royce and generally tried to delegate any tasks that came his way. Oh, i mean, never on top as well up to here he was celebrated from house van fleet to the Festival Hall. Nothing but jubilation and triumph if stung off my he usually stood in the car or and at the entrance to the festival hole where i greeted him, he got his voice. Dear fellow, be so kind and come to the window, shouted the euphoric crowd than hitler stepped up to the side window of the royal portal and greeted his onlookers. Hitler last visited by lloyd in 1940. I hear the wings of the goddess of victory russell. Those were his words of farewell. Then the war dominated, everything. Europe was in ruins, but hitler decided the festival should continue. The performers were exempted from war service. The audience made up of the war, wounded wagner for consolation. Wagner, for war mora the wagner were a surrogate family for hitler. The butner family was entranced by the fema richard wagner, son in law, houston steward, chamberlain introduced adult hitler to the wagner family. Hitler admired chamberlains racist and anti semitic view. Beginning in 1936, hitler moved into the composers estate for the festival season. In housey creek built by wagner sun here, hitler could spread out and relax a volume with here he was completely autonomous, but still close to house bonfire foreign bond fleet, which had her sons equally died in 1930. His wife finished fred took over as festival director. Hitler continued to find a warm, free place to stay. Oh, when calmer he actually came here too. I almost want to say to enjoy family life. Actually just to see the children he so enjoyed being around the children i and they called him uncle voice. Especially for the sons voice gung and violent. The dictator was a kind of surrogate father with visions for the opera for the festival. And for all of germany, and he demanded a luck from his surrogate sons. He did you hear the fireplace behind me of i are. Hitler was a bit of a pyromaniac, where he liked to sit there until the Early Morning hours, who bought the london book gone, always had to listen to his endless monologues as vulcan. Wagner told me, they actually wanted to go to bed and sleep better, but they had to keep him company here on my hear the girl, the gazette after mars. And venus let the Ardent Supporter of National Socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent friend. Ah ah ah, how he wasnt the fuor at all. How can i never experienced anything for beating about him . Thats the strange thing. You know he had this absolute, austrian sensibility and warm paddle accent tucked on it. That m. O. After 945. 00. Jennifer wagner was put on trial in d, not a vacation proceedings where she had to justify her closeness to hitler, the management of the festival, past to her sons. They tried to salvage what they could and distance themselves from the dark. Chapter jennifer had remained true to her beliefs, unapologetically, inviting, old nazi leaders to her house. It might have. Yeah. We old National Socialists found a new code name after the war one because you couldnt talk about him in public to me. So if we wanted to talk about him, we called him usa, which stood phones azalea at all, for al bless it at all. The wagners a true surrogate family for hitler. Wagners music, the soundtrack of dictatorship, oh, madness, bombastic, music could be used perfectly for hitlers political goals. These enormous, this enormous impact monism of the music of the lyrics. The story lines with which you can overwhelm the listeners mon, due to her. That was after all, he got the heart of nazi propaganda and calendar as propaganda. For the opening of the annual tardy conference. The overture of hitlers beloved gillian c, pathos and bombast with z issue to boost ition. But if you look at the infamous Party Congress film by lenae lee finch dawes, triumph of the will. Or what albert spare did, with the cathedral of light falmouth submitted, those were opera productions steel. Newsreel footage of an air raid becomes a heroic performance with the addition of the ride of the val carries does this follow all this insincere exalted and melodramatic stock under which the nazis used for their propaganda in a clever way . Can all be combined quite well with wagner. Operas got screwed from wagner, composed music with great pathos for hitler, the soundtrack of dictatorship, wagner encouraged hitlers megalomania, hitlers fantasies of redeeming. The german guys were really stirred up by wagners music. Ah, ever been better background music or megalomania. Grossman vaughan, if you want to have kind of really, really big, grand music. It does kind of fit with those kind of fantasies. Darkness was listening to wagners music can sometimes touch deep parts of your soul that you perhaps werent aware of until then for is tense. I think its like any drug cost. And wagner is a drug key that all enjoyed moderation. It can make you healthy and also in excess. It can make you sick because doctors in the 19th century had already suspected this and they attributed a devastating effect to wagners music, hysteria, madness, and even death. Indeed tristan a diesel, that in particular let a few people to their graves. The 1st tristan singer died in 1865 and a so called wagner delirium. In 1911 there was another wagner victim. Conductor. Felix muttered, he suffered a heart attack during a performance of the opera and died 50 years later, conductor hughes of chi about collapsed and died on the same spot. Did fathers music reinforce hitlers pathological side, a kind of accelerant for hitler sick brain . And how can music be life threatening . I think its because of the harmonies, basically, the whole of the 5 hour long opera is in some ways are kind of heavily sexualized kind of harmonic trick. As the whole of the 2nd act makes you empty, desperate for the musical climax. And then its taken away from the lovers who cannot reach each other. Ah figure that man get down loose. So didnt get the same tension before that the tonic and maybe even waiting for for 5 hours. Which point everyone to says a little soon, 5 hours of delayed gratification. And when released finally comes, its in the form of death. Its, its kind of rather morbid combination of eroticism and death. Wish that makes wagner kind of her potent and a little bit scary. The hope for release from earthly suffering. A yearning that hitler also knew well, more of he always had suicidal thoughts up to there. When he was at difficult points, when he was in danger of failing him off, he would say that he would end it hold the and brutally shoot himself. That was always one of his light motifs. And he finally carried it out in the bunker. In 1945 will grab any needy toppers. And even then wagner played an important part, accompanied by the strains of zeke feeds funeral march from gutter, damn alone. The fearless miserable end was announced on the radio. Ah, there truly is a dangerous closeness between the 2 men and association. You should be aware of my uncommon dot. You can only be of log marian with a clear conscience if youre also willing and able to look at the other side of the coin which does exist to the talk. Do you see . 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