Speaking of bias, though, Mister "Fritz was incapable of friendship and didn't have friends and his letters to Wilhelmine were all just rococo playacting" Luh isn't much better himself IMO. :P
Oh, quite, he's as biased, just in the other direction. (I seem to recall in his Fritz biography, he's also of the "Fritz loved no one except possibly Fredersdorf" persuasion.)
I got the right impression of Kloosterhuis as a "FW, totally misjudged" proponent?
Yes. It's basically the same argument Fontane concludes his Katte part of the Wanderungen with - that FW acted according to Prussian law, and that all the contemporaries, including Katte's family, agree on this - only with many more quotes.
By the way, he does mention Gundling at least once in the Tabagie book, a half sentence in the preview ("ohne das schlimme Schicksal des alkoholkranken Tabagisten Jakob Paul von Gundling vertuschen zu wollen") which reads to me as leading re: alcoholism and like a "okay, I've mentioned him, now back to the Sehnsuchtsort" dismissal.
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Re: Volz on Richter: The Review
Date: 2021-03-31 01:17 pm (UTC)Oh, quite, he's as biased, just in the other direction. (I seem to recall in his Fritz biography, he's also of the "Fritz loved no one except possibly Fredersdorf" persuasion.)
I got the right impression of Kloosterhuis as a "FW, totally misjudged" proponent?
Yes. It's basically the same argument Fontane concludes his Katte part of the Wanderungen with - that FW acted according to Prussian law, and that all the contemporaries, including Katte's family, agree on this - only with many more quotes.
By the way, he does mention Gundling at least once in the Tabagie book, a half sentence in the preview ("ohne das schlimme Schicksal des alkoholkranken Tabagisten Jakob Paul von Gundling vertuschen zu wollen") which reads to me as leading re: alcoholism and like a "okay, I've mentioned him, now back to the Sehnsuchtsort" dismissal.
That's what it sounds like to me as well.