Gottfried Wagner (born 13 April 1947 in Bayreuth)[1] is a multimedia director and publicist.

He has concentrated on German culture and politics, as well as Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries in numerous publications.

He is a member of the PEN-Club Liechtenstein and in 1992 was a co-founder of the Post-Holocaust Discussion Group.

[2] He has been living in Italy since 1983, and has estranged himself from his father's family, openly criticising their involvement with the Nazi regime.

[3][4] His book Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy, an autobiography, queried the extent to which his father had extricated himself from the family's close connection to National Socialism,[5][6] while he has also been critical of many aspects of the Bayreuth Festival.