Damage Control: Joachim Köhler discerns signs of a revisionist approach to Cosima

Cosima Wagner’s name is inseparably connected with that of her husband Richard. But what exactly does this connection mean, aside from the fact that she was his second wife and he her second husband? They married when Wagner was 57 years old, and they were together for less than twenty years when Wagner died. His first wife, Minna, to whom he was married for thirty years, receives far less attention today.