Committee

President

Horst Eggers

Am Eichelberg 27
95448 Bayreuth

Germany

Tel: +49 921910111
horst.eggers@richard-wagner.org

1. Vice President

Nicolaus Richter

Zeckenmühle 1
95511 Mistelbach

Germany

Tel: +49 9201799667
nicolaus.richter@richard-wagner.org

2. Vice President

Prof. Alessandra Althoff-Pugliese

Ca' Vendramin-Calergi
Cannaregio 2040
30123 Venezia

Italy

Tel: +39 0412760407
alessandra.althoff-pugliese@richard-wagner.org

3. Vice President

Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Schneider

Eugen-Wollfarth-Weg 6
76229 Karlsruhe

Germany

Tel: +49 721463049
hans-michael.schneider@richard-wagner.org

4. Vice President

Jacques Avery-Bouffier

10 Rue Royale
Paris 75008

France

Tel: +33 626093099
jacques.bouffier@richard-wagner.org

Secretary

Prof. Dr. Günter Cisek

Friedenstrasse 15
97072 Würzburg

Germany

Tel: +49 931462274
guenter.cisek@richard-wagner.org

Treasurer

Georg Riesner

de-Cuvry-Str. 17a
95488 Eckersdorf

Germany

Tel: +49 92132510
georg.riesner@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Andrea Buchanan

Flat 7, Avenue Mansions
Finchley Road
London NW3 7AU

United Kingdom

andrea.buchanan@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Rainer Fineske

Bornstrasse 19
12163 Berlin

Germany

Tel: +49 307918674
rainer.fineske@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Selma Gudmundsdottir

Dragavegi 11
104 Reykjavik

Iceland

Tel: +35 45517292
selma.gudmundsdottir@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Gisbert Lehmhaus

Hinsbecker Straße 3
40547 Düsseldorf

Germany

Tel: +49 211579607
gisbert.lehmhaus@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Karl Russwurm

Zillertalstraße 41a
81373 München

Germany

Tel: +49 8990542139
karl.russwurm@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Weyringer

Rotmoosweg 67
8045 Graz

Austria

Tel: +43 6642125596
heinz.weyringer@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Christian Ducor

18, rue de la Salle
78100 Saint Germain en Laye

France

Tel: +33 614311174
christian.ducor@richard-wagner.org

Committee member

Dr. Matthias Lachenmann

Ulmer Straße 5a
89275 Elchingen

Germany

Tel: +49 731268833
matthias.lachenmann@richard-wagner.org

Honorary President

Josef Lienhart

Germany

Josef Lienhart experienced his first Wagner opera as a nine-year old boy with a performance of Die Walküre at the Freiburg Theatre in 1942 and since then has not been able to let go of the composer's music.

In 1951, he attended the first Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival to be held after the Second World War. As early as 1952 he gave his first lecture on the current production of Wieland Wagner's Parsifal.

From 1960 onwards Lienhart extended his lecturing activities to the whole of Germany, before Being elected as the first Chairman of the Freiburg Wagner Society in 1962.

His path to the heart of Wagner led Lienhart to become the Deputy Federal Chairman in 1982 and then First Federal Chairman of the Richard-Wagner Federation in 1988. In 1991 he was finally elected President of the International Richard Wagner Association in Lyon. The RWVI has a membership of around 150 Wagner societies with 40,000 members worldwide in around 40 countries.