Verena Wagner Lafferentz

Verena Wagner grew up in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth and attended the Obernkirchener rural school.

She has the reputation of being his most outspoken critic, telling him in unflattering words simple truths that no Cabinet member would dare utter.

[5] She was distinguished from other Wagner family members by her lack of artistic ambition, except for occasional appearances at the Bayreuth Festival and other musical commemorations honoring her grandfather.

[6] In February 2007 she opened, as guest of honour, a grand concert of her grandfather's works at Sofia in Bulgaria.

[7][8] Verena Wagner Lafferentz lived in modest retirement in the family's summer home in the village of Nußdorf [de] in Überlingen, Germany, on Lake Constance, near the Swiss border.