Wahnfried

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Proper noun 1.3 See also 1.4 Quotations

English

Etymology

From German Wahn ('madness', 'illusion') + Friede ('peace').

Proper noun

Wahnfried

1. The name of Richard Wagner’s villa in Bayreuth, Germany. It means 'Peace from life’s madness'.

See also

• Wikipedia article on Wahnfried

Quotations

• 2000, Gottfried Wagner, Twilight of the Wagners [1]

  The view from my window showed part of the villa that had survived the war, including the Wagner house’s motto: “Here where my fancies [Wahnen] found peace [Frieden], this house I name Wahnfried.”

  In front of the Villa Wahnfried, perched on a high plinth, was a bust of King Ludwig II, who had financed many of Richard Wagner’s years as a composer.

• 2001, R J Hollingdale, Nietzsche [2]

  A month later he went to Bayreuth and stayed with the Wagners at their new house, Wahnfried, until the 15th August.

• 2005, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, The End of the Certain World [3]

  On the day when Wagner’s widow, Cosima, a strident anti-Semite, opened the doors of her estate, Haus Wahnfried, for an elegant garden party, she barred Jews.