In Wagner’s Footsteps: Chris Walton is swept away by a guidebook of Wagner’s travels

Review of Markus Kiesel, Joachim Mildner and Dietmar Schuth, eds, Wandrer heißt mich die Welt: Auf Wagners Spuren durch Europa (ConBrio, 2019).

July 2020, Volume 14, Number 2, 95–6.

Wagner’s connections to places have in recent years become a popular topic in the literature. Books have been popping up on Wagner in Paris, Wagner in Venice and Wagner in Zurich; no doubt Wagner in Vienna, Wagner in London and more will surface before too long. ‘Wagner in Teplitz’ or ‘Wagner in Moscow’ are surely worth a shot for some doctoral student out there, though one suspects ‘Wagner in Brighton’ might not quite make the cut. And yet he was there too – and I know it for sure, because I was able to look it up on p. 147 in Wandrer heißt mich die Welt (there’s also an odd murder mystery mentioned there involving a friend of Wagner’s, but I’m not going to give any spoilers here).