Given Fritz gave him (FW 2) hell about his mistress (of a life time) Wilhelmine Enke and wrote in his memoirs that FW2's wife cheating on him was solely FW's fault and he liked the wife better anyway (!), I'm suspecting you're right about those thoughts.
Fun fact: one of the more popular 20th century German historical novels is about this Wilhelmine, not to be confused with Fritz' sister, called Die schöne Wilhelmine" by Ernst von Salomon. I read this when I was ca. 12 or 13. At which point I was already familiar with the tragic tale of Young Fritz and Katte, but it took me a moment or two to realise that Snarky Old Uncle Fritz at the start of this novel was the same guy. He's not a villain by any means, btw, and Salomon lets him encounter Casanova ("you're a good looking man", observes Fritz) and flirt a bit in between being sarcastic towards his nephew. Said nephew is not the brightest but well-meaning; Wilhelmine, Berlin street child determined to make it to the top and stay there, is the heroine in whose pov we mostly remain.
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Re: Our Insane Family: The Next Generation
Date: 2019-08-22 05:01 pm (UTC)Fun fact: one of the more popular 20th century German historical novels is about this Wilhelmine, not to be confused with Fritz' sister, called Die schöne Wilhelmine" by Ernst von Salomon. I read this when I was ca. 12 or 13. At which point I was already familiar with the tragic tale of Young Fritz and Katte, but it took me a moment or two to realise that Snarky Old Uncle Fritz at the start of this novel was the same guy. He's not a villain by any means, btw, and Salomon lets him encounter Casanova ("you're a good looking man", observes Fritz) and flirt a bit in between being sarcastic towards his nephew. Said nephew is not the brightest but well-meaning; Wilhelmine, Berlin street child determined to make it to the top and stay there, is the heroine in whose pov we mostly remain.