Ha, in hindsight, I was thinking it shouldn't have been--what is Pöllnitz known for, after all, if not traveling and accruing stories?
But, you know, since Pöllnitz occasionally attended the Tobacco Parliament (or maybe only in the later 30s?), he really should have been used to that.
My thoughts exactly!
I feel like he wasn't exactly the right temperament for GG, though
Myeah, no, does not seem like it. I'll believe Pöllnitz was more his type. Also, when Knobelsdorff was there, GG was dying, so may have been miserable enough that no good stories were going to happen.
And I see that you got an English version of the memoirs. I actually had a look at a German version quite some time ago, but gave up after a couple of pages, because damn, that was work and I was lacking context. Seems like the translation is somewhat easier.
I mean, even with the English version, which I found a couple years ago, I looked at it and had no context for who any of these people were, so I set it down again. Then I ran into it again this week, and did some skimming, and was like, "Hey, I know who this person is, and also this one, and also this one--I should check these out again!"
We'll see if I end up with the time, but they're back on my radar now.
Wilhelmine was similiar, in that I did read v. 1 of her memoirs at the beginning of salon because I obviously knew who her immediate family were, but the reread a year later took me from "Manteuffel who?" to "Oh, Manteuffel the silver fox!" :P
Re: Pöllnitz and Gian Gastone
Ha, in hindsight, I was thinking it shouldn't have been--what is Pöllnitz known for, after all, if not traveling and accruing stories?
But, you know, since Pöllnitz occasionally attended the Tobacco Parliament (or maybe only in the later 30s?), he really should have been used to that.
My thoughts exactly!
I feel like he wasn't exactly the right temperament for GG, though
Myeah, no, does not seem like it. I'll believe Pöllnitz was more his type. Also, when Knobelsdorff was there, GG was dying, so may have been miserable enough that no good stories were going to happen.
And I see that you got an English version of the memoirs. I actually had a look at a German version quite some time ago, but gave up after a couple of pages, because damn, that was work and I was lacking context. Seems like the translation is somewhat easier.
I mean, even with the English version, which I found a couple years ago, I looked at it and had no context for who any of these people were, so I set it down again. Then I ran into it again this week, and did some skimming, and was like, "Hey, I know who this person is, and also this one, and also this one--I should check these out again!"
We'll see if I end up with the time, but they're back on my radar now.
Wilhelmine was similiar, in that I did read v. 1 of her memoirs at the beginning of salon because I obviously knew who her immediate family were, but the reread a year later took me from "Manteuffel who?" to "Oh, Manteuffel the silver fox!" :P