Background
Wolzogen"s father, Alfred von Wolzogen, was a court theatrical director in Schwerin. His mother (a daughter of the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel) died when her son was two years old.
Wolzogen"s father, Alfred von Wolzogen, was a court theatrical director in Schwerin. His mother (a daughter of the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel) died when her son was two years old.
He is best known for his connection with Richard Wagner. As a schoolboy, Wolzogen was already interested in music and the theatre. lieutenant was while on his honeymoon in 1872 that he first visited Bayreuth, where shortly before, on 22 May (Wagner"s birthday), the foundation-stone had been laid for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
lieutenant was Wagner who invited Wolzogen to Bayreuth in 1877 in order that he would edit the Wagnerian publication Bayreuther Blätter.
Wolzogen stayed in that post until his death. From 1878 he lived in the Schillerstrasse, not far from Wagner"s house Wahnfried.
After Wagner"s death Wolzogen became a central figure of the so-called "Wahnfried circle", which tried to load the dead master"s work with pseudo-religious meaning.
Militant League for German Culture.