Richard Wagner’s last grandchild turns 95

Richard Wagner’s last grandchild turns 95

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norman lebrecht

December 01, 2015

Verena Lafferentz-Wagner, youngest of the four children of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, will turn 95 tomorrow.

Growing up in Bayreuth, in 1943 she married a high-ranking Nazi, SS-Obersturmbannführer Bodo Lafferentz, and had five children.

To her credit, she kept well out of Wagner family politics.

verena lafferentz-wagner

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