I spent my holidays not really working for Uni and instead found some... stuff while browsing the online parts of the university library.
Namely, I found a pdf of that "Katte - Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen" stage play from 1914 (my university apparently owns three physical copies as well and I just want to ask WHY). I don't know if any of you have read it already, but it's... wild. It is also an earlier example of the "Katte was totes in love with Wilhelmine"-trope found in the musical and has his last words be "Long live the King"... And SD is actually all for Wilhelmine marrying Fritz of Bayreuth and only worried for her happiness. Some interesting decisions were made.
I could try to make a post summing everything up for you if that is of interest. It is definitely fun, in a weird way :'D
Another strange thing I've found, luckily not in my university library, is that there is, apparently, a digital anime trading card game where you can collect people from history, mythology, and literature in... anime-girl-form. Among the people featured as anime-girl trading cards are Fritz, Voltaire, Peter the Great and Stalin. Stalin has bunny ears. I do not wish to type that sentence ever again.
Away from weird stuff and onto more scholarly things: I got myself an exhibition catalogue from a 1994 Rheinsberg exhibition on portraits of Heinrich. It has some fun images that I have not necessarily found online (including a carricature which I love dearly) as well as contemporary descriptions of him and is quite fun to read. I could try to scan/photograph it and send you a pdf version, if you'd like that :D
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Strange historical fiction among other things
Date: 2021-01-05 12:15 am (UTC)Namely, I found a pdf of that "Katte - Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen" stage play from 1914 (my university apparently owns three physical copies as well and I just want to ask WHY). I don't know if any of you have read it already, but it's... wild. It is also an earlier example of the "Katte was totes in love with Wilhelmine"-trope found in the musical and has his last words be "Long live the King"... And SD is actually all for Wilhelmine marrying Fritz of Bayreuth and only worried for her happiness. Some interesting decisions were made.
I could try to make a post summing everything up for you if that is of interest. It is definitely fun, in a weird way :'D
Another strange thing I've found, luckily not in my university library, is that there is, apparently, a digital anime trading card game where you can collect people from history, mythology, and literature in... anime-girl-form. Among the people featured as anime-girl trading cards are Fritz, Voltaire, Peter the Great and Stalin. Stalin has bunny ears. I do not wish to type that sentence ever again.
Away from weird stuff and onto more scholarly things: I got myself an exhibition catalogue from a 1994 Rheinsberg exhibition on portraits of Heinrich. It has some fun images that I have not necessarily found online (including a carricature which I love dearly) as well as contemporary descriptions of him and is quite fun to read. I could try to scan/photograph it and send you a pdf version, if you'd like that :D