Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

[cahn]

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)

Comments

[selenak]

Alas, I have to pass this on to mildred_of_midgard, because being German,the Frederick biographies I'm familiar with are as well. In the meantime, why not check out Mein Name ist Bach, a movie based on the historical encounter(s) between Frederick and, well, Bach? That one has English subtitles, is focused on a brief point in time (so you don't have to know context beyond the one the movie provides), and it does give you a first impression of Frederick's personality. (Though, as Mildred said, the jerk woobie part, not the magnificent bastard part, but that's due to circumstance. (The magnificent bastard part comes out when he's facing off with most of Europe, not with musicians, some of which depend on him for a living.)

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you for the rec! Alas, my German reading reaches its limits cheesy fanfic, but I enjoy a good costume drama and that looks like it would be a good fun start. And it's only 95 mins long, which is something I always like in a film!