Katharina Wagner on view. Wagner also took a bow after every performance, with audiences split between bravas and boos. On 1 September 2008, Katharina Wagner was named together with her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier as the new director of the Bayreuth Festival by the Richard Wagner Foundation, succeeding their father Wolfgang. This followed an extended family dispute. They were chosen in preference to their cousin Nike Wagner and the Belgian opera director and administrator Gerard Mortier, who had placed a late joint bid for the directorship on 24 August. In October 2010, Wagner planned to visit Israel in order to invite the Israel
Bavarian Political Police the Nazis took power in Bavaria on 9 March 1933, and split off the political department of the Munich police into a separate entity, the Bavarian Political Police (BPP). The Bavarian Political Police operated outside the framework of the law in the state. The new force experienced no great changes in staffing compare to the pre-Nazi era, with almost all previous staff being either retained or new staff coming from the existing Bavarian police force. The Bavarian Political Police pre-dated its Prussian counterpart, the Gestapo, which was formed on 26 April 1933. In the early stages the two organisations were