# The Case of Wagner is issued as a public break that treats Bayreuth as a cultural sickness

Date: 1888

## The fact

In 1888 Der Fall Wagner appeared as a public diagnosis of Wagner and Bayreuth as decadence.

It is one event.

## Context

The break can also be an anti-nationalist gain on another row.

[Friedrich Nietzsche](/people/friedrich-nietzsche)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

eKGWB and IEP/Stanford Wagner-Nietzsche discussions independently date the 1888 Case.

Official or archival record: Nietzsche Source — Digital Critical Edition (eKGWB) (https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb; Nietzsche Source / Paolo D’Iorio).

## Significance

A printed sickness-label on a national festival public is a cohesion cost.

1888 is not 1876’s private disillusion only; it is a book.

A printed sickness-label on a national festival public is a cohesion cost.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1888 public Case of Wagner. Not established: that he cancelled Bayreuth by decree.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Friedrich Nietzsche.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

## People

- Friedrich Nietzsche: https://factrail.ai/people/friedrich-nietzsche

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/wagner/
- https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-case-wagner-1888