The Bayreuth Festival opens July 23 with a new production of `` Tannhaeuser '' staged by Wieland Wagner, who is doing all the operas this time, and conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch.

Among the more significant post-war productions was that directed in 1951 by Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson.

In 1951, the first post-war Richard Wagner Festival took place under the leadership of Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner.

* July 29 – The annual Bayreuth Festival resumes for the first time since the Second World War, now under the general direction of Wieland Wagner, with an opening concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, followed by productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger.

Performances of Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre with innovative stage sets by Wieland Wagner were enthusiastically received.

Under the direction of Wieland Wagner, the " New Bayreuth " ushered in an era that was no less than revolutionary.

* Wieland Wagner ( Lohengrin, 1965 )

She gained international renown when she was cast by Wieland Wagner ( Richard Wagner's grandson ) as Venus at Bayreuth in 1961, at age 24, the first black singer to appear there.

Proksch was the first husband of the actress Daphne Wagner, daughter of Wieland Wagner, great-granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner and great-great-granddaughter of Franz Liszt.

Having already sung the Rheingold Wotan and the Siegfried Wanderer roles at the Met in New York in December ' 61 and January ' 62, he was ready to sing his first complete Ring Cycle. This was to be the now legendary new production mounted by Wieland Wagner at the Cologne Opera in West Germany in May 1962. Wieland was ready to try out new singers and production ideas in advance of his new Bayreuth Festival production which was scheduled for the summer of 1965 with London as Wotan and the Wanderer.

In 1951 the Bayreuth Festival reopened and the new leader Wieland Wagner asked her to sing Sieglinde.

This accomplishment drew the attention of Wieland Wagner who took it upon himself to get Braun a contract with the Frankfurt Opera.

In that year she also made her debut at Bayreuth after Flagstad, who had declined the invitation to Bayreuth, recommended that Wieland Wagner engage Varnay.

In addition to his elder brother Wieland ( 1917 – 66 ), he had an elder sister Friedelind Wagner ( 1918 – 1991 ), and a younger sister Verena Wagner ( Verena Lafferenz, born 1920 ).

Wolfgang worked with his older brother Wieland Wagner in 1951 on the resurrection of the Bayreuth Festival following Germany's collapse after the Second World War.

In Germany, Richard Huelsenbeck established the Berlin group, whose members included Jean Arp, John Heartfield, Wieland Hertzfelde, Johannes Baader, Raoul Hausmann, George Grosz and Hannah Höch.

In 1925 Wieland succeeded Richard Willstätter as Chemistry Professor at the University of Munich.

What Knappertsbusch did not realise was that Wieland had made the length of the string sufficient so that the conductor could see the dove, but the audience could not.

From the time in Kassel on, Forster was in active correspondence with important figures of the Enlightenment, including Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Goethe.

He was close to Wieland, Herder, Goethe, Friedrich Schlegel, Fichte and Tieck.

* Bob Wieland, Vietnam was a soldier in Vietnam.

Christoph Martin Wieland ( September 5, 1733 – January 20, 1813 ) was a German poet and writer.

Wieland married in 1765, and between 1769 and 1772 was professor of philosophy at Erfurt.

Wieland was also strongly influenced by the French fairy-tale vogue of the 18th century, he published a collection of tales entitled Dschinnistan ( 1786 – 1789 ), which included three original tales, ' Der Stein der Weisen ' (' The Philosopher's Stone '), ' Timander und Melissa ', and ' Der Druide oder die Salamanderin und die Bildsäule ' (' The Druid or the Salamander and the Painted Pillar ').

Gruber was the author of a large number of works, the principal of which are Charakteristik Herders ( Leipzig, 1805 ), in conjunction with Johann TL Danz ( 1769 – 1851 ), afterwards professor of theology at Jena ; Geschichte des menschlichen Geschlechts ( 2 vols, Leipzig, 1806 ); Wörterbuch der altklassischen Mythologie ( 3 vols, Weimar, 1810 – 1815 ); a life of Christoph Martin Wieland ( Wielands Leben, 2 parts, Weimar, 1815 – 1816 ), and of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ( Klopstocks Leben, Weimar, 1832 ).

Hufeland was the inventor of the term macrobiotic, was Physician Royal to the King of Prussia, as well as giving medical attention to the following illustrious patients: " Johann Wolfgang Goethe ( 1749-1832 ), Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744-1803 ), Schiller ( 1739-1805 ), and Christoph Martin Wieland ( 1732-1813 ).

His novels were the first U. S. novels translated into other European languages: Ormond was published in German ( where it was attributed to Godwin ) during 1803, and a French version of Wieland appeared in 1808.

Wieland was particularly derided for his 1956 production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Others have speculated that by stripping Wagner's works of their Germanic and historic elements, Wieland was attempting to distance Bayreuth from its nationalistic past and create productions with universal appeal.

Pioneering work on this toxin was done by the Nobel laureate Heinrich Wieland in the 1930s.

Phalloidin was ultimately purified and crystallized in 1937 by Heinrich's student and son-in-law Feodor Lynen ( who won a Nobel Prize in 1964 for his work on cholesterol metabolism ), and Heinrich's nephew Ulrich Wieland.

Heinrich Otto Wieland ( 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957 ) was a German chemist.

After collecting money for Kurt Huber's widow Clara Huber, Hans Conrad Leipelt, a student of Wieland, was sentenced to death.

Heinrichs father, Theodor Wieland ( 1846 – 1928 ) was a pharmacist with a doctorate in chemistry.

Heinrich Wieland was a cousin of Helene Boehringer, the wife of Albert Boehringer, who was the founder of Boehringer-Ingelheim.

Eva Wieland, Heinrich Wieland's daughter, was married to Feodor Lynen on 14 May 1937.

Wieland Schmied, the director of the kestnergesellschaft praised him as " der größte Zeichner außer Picasso.

He is best known as the director ( Festspielleiter ) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966.

Before the publication of this work he had shown an original poetical faculty in Wieland der Schmied ( 1835 ); and in 1844 he issued a volume of Gedichte in which there are many good lyrics, romances and ballads.

His busts, of which there are more than one hundred, include seventeen colossal heads in the Walhalla, Ratisbon ; Goethe, Wieland, and Fichte were modelled from life.

Between 1800 and 1805 he studied at various places in Germany, meeting men of letters there, including Goethe, Schiller, Johann Gottfried Herder and Christoph Martin Wieland.