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Wahnfried may refer to:
- Wahnfried, Richard Wagner's villa in Bayreuth
- Richard Wahnfried (now simply "Wahnfried"), the long-time alias for German composer and musician Klaus Schulze
- "Wahnfried's Dream" (see Richard Wahnfried), a composition on the 1994 Wahnfried album Trancelation
- "Wahnfried 1883" (see Klaus Schulze), a composition on the 1975 Klaus Schulze album Timewind
- Wahnfried (film), a 1986 film about Wagner.
Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of Wahn (delusion, madness) and Fried(e), (peace, freedom).
The house was constructed from 1872 to 1874 under Carl Wölfel's supervision after plans from Berlin architect Wilhelm Neumann, the plans being altered according to some ideas of Wagner. The front of the house shows Wagner's motto "Hier wo mein Wähnen Frieden fand – Wahnfried – sei dieses Haus von mir benannt." ("Here where my delusions have found peace, let this place be named Wahnfried.")
The grave of Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima lies on the grounds of Wahnfried. The house has been a museum since 1976. Visitors can take a walk in the remote Hofgarten, the baroque park of Bayreuth's New Castle, to where a path directly leads.
A stylized version of Villa Wahnfried was used for the sets of Stefan Herheim's new production of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008.
Wahnfried is a 1986 German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.