Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

[cahn]

Yuletide nominations:

18th Century CE Federician RPF
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria
Voltaire
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Anna Amalie von Preußen | Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)
Catherine II of Russia
Hans Hermann von Katte
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)

Circle of Voltaire RPF
Emilie du Chatelet
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour)
John Hervey (1696-1743)
Marie Louise Mignot Denis
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1696-1788)
Francesco Algarotti

Comments

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

[selenak]

Poor Kleist. Though I got to say, I feel even sorrier for his sister Ulrike, because first your knock yourself over help your little brother throughout his life, including a stint of personally saving him from French imprisonment, and otherwise dedicate your life to him, then he writes to your mutual cousin in his last but one letter before offing himself that you were too cold, and then he writes one last letter to you saying "sorry about that bit in the letter to our cousin where I essentially blamed you for my impending suicide , I didn't mean it, truth is you did all you could und das mir auf Erden nicht mehr zu helfen war, farewell! If he hadn't tragically killed himself, you'd want to slap him with a cold fish from here to eternity for that. Well, I would.

(I still greatly enjoyed Löhr getting him laid by Humboldt in his novel, though.)

On to lighter things, I do love those letters and applaud your Heinrich salutation. :) Or, as our fellow fan Fontane put it about Heinrich in the Wanderungen: wenn er in seinen Antworten auch nicht dem Richard Löwenherz glich, der mit seinem Schwert ein zolldickes Eisen zerhieb, so glich er doch dem Saladin, der mit seiner Halbmondklinge das in die Luft geworfene Seidentuch im Niederfallen durchschnitt.

Re: The Pop Art Thing I mentioned

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I agree, Uli is the real hero here. Are you even reading about Kleist if you DON'T want to punch him half of the time? :'D Though not half as much as I wanted to punch Fontane for his commentary on Die Marquise von O, that thing probably sparked the most rage-filled German exam I've ever had.