Another Wagner on the warpath

One of Richard Wagner's seemingly endless stock of great-grandaughters has come out against the redevelopment of the composer's Bayreuth home. The architects' designs for modernisation and expansion of the Wahnfried museum were made public in 2010, so the little-known Iris Wagner has left it a bit late to complain about, as she puts it, "The cafe on the grave".

She's referring to the low glass building on the left of the photo mock-up below, which shows what the rear of Wahnfried will look like after redevelopment; the graves of Richard and Cosima Wagner are just out of shot on the right.

In the Fränkischer Tag interview, she also takes a pop at the Wahnfried museum director, Bayreuth Festival management, her cousins Katharina and Eva ("superficial and incompetent"), the trustees of the Richard Wagner foundation and various Bavarian state officials.

Bayreuth as usual then.

Here's the projected view from the front:

Comments

[Nikolaus Vogel]

"The café on the grave" Love it! Those Wagners - how boring Germany would be without their squabbles. She's dead right about Katharina though. Your not confusing Eva Wagner-Pasquier with Eva-Maria Westbroek are you. IM? Actually Eva-Maria actually looks as if she might be K's big sister....
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Intermezzo replies - Thank you, I knew she had three names, just couldn't remember wtf they were.

[Tone]

Is anybody else's great, great grandanybody alive? I'm always hearing about the Wagners, who seem to have the monopoly on industrial progeniture. For instance, what about the Bachs?

[Jerold]

Congratulations Iris! Best thing I've read all morning!