Proper noun

1. The name of Richard Wagner’s villa in Bayreuth, Germany. It means "Peace from life’s madness".

Quotations

• 2000, Gottfried Wagner, Twilight of the Wagners http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=IhgM5wHFtBcC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&sig=NwW-eqikiNF65hBDylRvQKPgY6o

  The view from my window showed part of the villa that had survived the war, including the Wagner house’s motto: “Here where my fancies [Wahnen] found peace [Frieden], this house I name Wahnfried.”

  In front of the Villa Wahnfried, perched on a high plinth, was a bust of King Ludwig II, who had financed many of Richard Wagner’s years as a composer.

• 2001, R J Hollingdale, Nietzsche http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=cNVu5UW7JNQC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&sig=h8hl82IXynNYwU4xZaXE_aNwfC4

  A month later he went to Bayreuth and stayed with the Wagners at their new house, Wahnfried, until the 15th August.

• 2005, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, The End of the Certain World http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=1_f9b-yH3HUC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&sig=P2RYmwRZo0G5-3P68VBAcOyGKJM

  On the day when Wagner’s widow, Cosima, a strident anti-Semite, opened the doors of her estate, Haus Wahnfried, for an elegant garden party, she barred Jews.