Three decadents : a high-level encounter
Luchino Visconti's "Ludwig" revisited from a Wagner perspective
Author : Jos Hermans
Luchino Visconti was fascinated by German culture particularly by Goethe, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Richard Wagner. But also by the Austrian version of it: Gustav Mahler, Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig and Robert Musil. At the same time, he was also …
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