Hitler's Parsifal: Mystery Novel

provoking novel boycotted and highly applauded... Hitler loved the Bayreuth Festival. He adored Richard Wagner s music. That s the background of the novel. Bayreuth has a unique place in German history. There is no better spot to observe the radical fault lines in that history than in this small provincial German city. In a country where music has always been very important, Bayreuth and its Festival were caught up in an unprecedented way in the Nazi catastrophe. Alma Rosen, a Jewish journalist from New York, has come to Bayreuth on the trail for information about her German grandfather, a pianist, conductor, and ardent devotee of Richard Wagner's music. But all traces of him have vanished in the Nazi death camps... It's Festival Time in Bayreuth. The city is shocked by the sudden death of Siegfried S rgel, Director of the Richard Wagner National Archive. Was it murder or suicide? What was so fascinating about the music of the anti-Semitic Wagner, who was Hitler's favorite composer, that would keep her grandfather from fleeing the hatred and persecution in Germany, and risk his life for Wagner's music? Alma intends to write a book about this. But her plans meet with mistrust in Bayreuth. She receives anonymous death threats.

Author: R. H. Offergeld
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/12/2013
Pages: 318
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.08w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781490352619
ISBN10: 1490352619
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical

About the Author
R.H. Offergeld is a German writer, journalist and human rights activist. He studied Catholic theology, philosophy, German and French literature in Paris and Munich and graduated with a teacher's degree for secondary schools in 1972. After having left school he worked as a journalist for print media (Spiegel, Stern) and German radio. In the 90s he produced several features and reports on the Bayreuth Festival . In 2005 he published his first novel "Kundry weint", now published in English language as "Hitler's Parsifal". R.H. Offergeld lives in Munich and Gargnano/Italy. More Information www.ruediger-offergeld.de (German Website) www.hitlersparsifal.com

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