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WAGNER & ME

England (BBC Documentary) 2010, English with German subtitles, directed by Patrick McGrady, 89”

May 22 | 7:00 PM | HANS-OTTO-THEATER POTSDAM

Can you be Jewish and love Wagner? That’s the question explored by one of Britain’s most popular performers, Stephen Fry, who attempts to separate the composer’s tainted legacy of association with Hitler’s anti-Semitism from the music that continues to draw large audiences today. In this inquisitive documentary, Fry’s admiration for Wagner, eclipsed by the murder of his relatives in the Holocaust, takes him to Germany, Switzerland and Russia to seek deeper truths about the man whose enduring popularity is celebrated beyond opera venues such as Bayreuth.