Masoch: this is another case where German and English wiki are quite different.
English wiki: his wife wouldn‘t go for his kink, he found homelife dull and eventually divorced her to marry his assistant.
German wiki: his wife‘s lover was put on trial for debts, which S-M had to pay for, he went broke because of that, and subsequently divorced his wife. His second marriage later was to his assistant.
Also, German wiki reveals the Austrian National Library put some of his stuff online, including, wait for it, a play titled „The Verses of Frederick the Great“. (In German.) I just had a look at the cast list, and it doesn‘t include Fritz. It‘s set at Versailles, starring Louis XV., Madame de Pompadour and various ambassadors and courtiers, so I assume it‘s about the Diplomatic Revolution happening due to Fritz‘ satiric poetry. But I could be wrong. Back to non-rpf I go.
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Re: Zimmerman setting the record Straight
Date: 2020-02-24 11:29 am (UTC)English wiki: his wife wouldn‘t go for his kink, he found homelife dull and eventually divorced her to marry his assistant.
German wiki: his wife‘s lover was put on trial for debts, which S-M had to pay for, he went broke because of that, and subsequently divorced his wife. His second marriage later was to his assistant.
Also, German wiki reveals the Austrian National Library put some of his stuff online, including, wait for it, a play titled „The Verses of Frederick the Great“. (In German.) I just had a look at the cast list, and it doesn‘t include Fritz. It‘s set at Versailles, starring Louis XV., Madame de Pompadour and various ambassadors and courtiers, so I assume it‘s about the Diplomatic Revolution happening due to Fritz‘ satiric poetry. But I could be wrong. Back to non-rpf I go.