Detective Mildred, I just idly checked some of the Wilhelmine letters from Trier for those I wasn't familiar with from the Audio, and what do I find?
January 19th 1744: Fritz sends Pöllnitz with plans for the Berlin opera house to Wilhelmine. (As requested by her, since she's planning her own opera house for Bayreuth.) Pöllnitz doesn't return to Berlin but stays in Bayreuth for a while, pleading sickness. Two or so letters later, there's the pissed off "Madam sister" letter about having just learned from Marwitz Sr. that Wilhelmine is planning to marry Marwitz the Lady in waiting to an Austrian. So: we have evidence that Pöllnitz was in fact with Wilhelmine in Bayreuth at the very time she was writing the memoirs and when the enstrangement with Fritz started to heat up in earnest. I'd say the only reason not to assume Pöllnitz knew exactly what she was working on is that he was chronically in debt and knew on which side his bread was buttered. He'd totally have told Fritz, who was the one paying for his living for the last few decades of his life.
Still: want to bet that opera maps weren't all Wilhelmine talked with Pöllnitz about during the winter and spring of 1744 while he was keeping her company in Bayreuth?
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Date: 2020-01-18 11:28 am (UTC)January 19th 1744: Fritz sends Pöllnitz with plans for the Berlin opera house to Wilhelmine. (As requested by her, since she's planning her own opera house for Bayreuth.) Pöllnitz doesn't return to Berlin but stays in Bayreuth for a while, pleading sickness. Two or so letters later, there's the pissed off "Madam sister" letter about having just learned from Marwitz Sr. that Wilhelmine is planning to marry Marwitz the Lady in waiting to an Austrian. So: we have evidence that Pöllnitz was in fact with Wilhelmine in Bayreuth at the very time she was writing the memoirs and when the enstrangement with Fritz started to heat up in earnest. I'd say the only reason not to assume Pöllnitz knew exactly what she was working on is that he was chronically in debt and knew on which side his bread was buttered. He'd totally have told Fritz, who was the one paying for his living for the last few decades of his life.
Still: want to bet that opera maps weren't all Wilhelmine talked with Pöllnitz about during the winter and spring of 1744 while he was keeping her company in Bayreuth?