The year 1798 saw the publication of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, the first American gothic novel and a groundwork of gothic tradition in American literature.
“The bad news is that the virus is targeting a specific process or plant,” says Wieland Simon of Siemens. “The good news is that most industrial processes are not the target of the virus.”
It was Wieland who took over the directorship and, by dispensing with much of the traditional symbolism of Wagnerian production, not only restored Bayreuth's reputation but enhanced it.