13. WagnerWorldWide:Bayreuth Thomas Bargatzky

In our last lecture of "WagnerWorldWide:Bayreuth", 25 January, 2012, Thomas Bargatzky is given us a great paper with the title: "Nature and Myth in Richard Wagner's Ring - An Anthropological Perspective". He shows "Der Ring des Nibelungen", Wagner employs anthropological, mythological and philosophical topics, ideas and characters in a way which often contravenes their original intent. In the "Ring", Wagner takes leave of the political optimism of his younger years, as it became manifest in his vision of a communal "art-work of the future". The pessimism informing the Ring-cycle testifies to its actuality, as is shown in the recent discussions on the "Staatendämmerung" follwing the European soverign debt crisis.

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