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Wolfgang Wagner (born 30 August, 1919) was the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival...

Wolfgang Wagner (born 30 August, 1919) was the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival from 1951 to 2008, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951. Wolfgang is the son of Siegfried Wagner, the grandson of Richard Wagner, and the great-grandson of Franz Liszt. He married twice, to Ellen Drexel and Gudrun Mack. Gudrun died in November 2007. He has three children: Eva, born 1945, Gottfried, born 1947 and Katharina, born 1978. He was reportedly estranged from the children of his first marriage; with Gottfried over the family's connection with Adolf Hitler, a friend of Wolfgang's mother Winifred; with Eva over control of the Bayreuth Festival. Eva was eventually named as his successor as the director of the Bayreuth Festival in conjunction with his preferred candidate Katharina after the two women reached an agreement following the death of Katharina's mother.. Wolfgang worked with his older brother Wieland Wagner on the resurrection, in 1951, of the Bayreuth Festival following Germany's collapse after the Second World War. The festival has run on an annual basis since then. On Wieland's death in 1966, Wolfgang became the sole director of the