Bülow, Eva von |
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BORN 17 Feb 1867, Tribschen (near Luzern) - DIED 26 May 1942, Bayreuth, Bayern CAUSE OF DEATH cancer GRAVE LOCATION Bayreuth, Bayern: Stadtfriedhof |
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Daughter of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt. Because her mother was still married to Hans von Bülow at the time of her birth her official name was Eva von Bülow. She was educated at home. In 1906 she took over the care for her sick mother Cosima in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth. She married racial theorist Houston Stewart Chamberlain in 1908. He had wanted to marry her sister and Eva was forty at the time of the marriage that remained childless. From 1916 the Chamberlains lived at Wahnfriedstrasse 1 in Bayreuth in the villa that now houses the Jean Paul Museum. Eva deleted pages from Richard Wagner's notebook and kept it hidden for many years. Only a select number of biographers was allowed to see parts of this important source. She and her half sister Daniela represented the Old Wagnerians who ware against the modernization of the performances of Wagner's work. They protested when the costumes for Parsifal were renewed in the 1930s for the first time since the opera was first performed in 1882. In 1926 she joined the NSDAP and in 1927 Chamberlain died. In 1933 Eva became a honourary citizen of the city of Bayreuth and she rcieved a Decoration of Honour from the NSDAP. After her death in 1942 the eulogy was given by the Bavarian minister Adolf Wagner (1890-1944). Family • Mother: Wagner, Cosima • Father: Wagner, Richard • Husband: Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1908-1927, Bayreuth, Bayern) • Sister: Bülow, Isolde von • Brother: Wagner, Siegfried • Sister: Bülow, Daniela von |
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 The grave of Houston Stewart Chamberlain at the Stadtfriedhof in Bayreuth. Picture by Androom (24 Jan 2006) |
Sources • Gutman, Robert, Richard Wagner, Der Mensch, sein Werk, seine Zeit, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, München, 1989 • Hilmes, Oliver, Cosima's Kinder, Siedler Verlag, München, 2009 |
