Houston Stewart Chamberlain is one of the most enigmatic figures of the epoch around 1900. Coming from a family of British colonial officers, he belonged to the closest circle around Cosima Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival since the 1890s. At the turn of the century, he provided the German educated bourgeoisie with the standard work of modern, racially based anti-Semitism and thus advanced to become a star author. Sven Fritz presents the most comprehensive biography of this extremely influential right-wing intellectual to date. Based on an unprecedentedly broad source base, he is able to correct numerous research findings that were believed to be certain.