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Dec 6, 2022 · The Real von Trapps. Georg von Trapp, born in 1880, became a national hero as a captain in the Austrian navy during World War I. He commanded submarines with valor and received the title of "Ritter" (knight), and later baron, as a reward for his heroic accomplishments. Georg married Agathe Whitehead, the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the ...
- The Real Maria Described Herself as “Horrid”
- The Number and Names of The Von Trapp Children Were Changed in The Movie
- The Real Family Wasn’T as Wealthy as Portrayed on screen
- The Von Trapps Were A Musical Household Well Before Maria Entered Their Lives
- Maria Was Hesitant About Marrying Captain Von Trapp
- The Real Von Trapp Family Didn’T Secretly Cross The Alps by Foot
Maria Augusta Kutscherawas born in January 1905 and, after being orphaned at a young age, was reportedly sent to live with an abusive uncle. She attended teachers’ college where she discovered religion and converted to Catholicism before becoming a candidate for the novitiate in Salzburg. Portrayed on film by Julie Andrews as demure and self-effaci...
In 1926, Maria was sent from the convent to tutor only one of Captain von Trapp’s seven children from his first marriage. Georg’s second eldest daughter, Maria, had contracted scarlet fever—the same disease that took his first wife’s life four years prior—and could no longer travel the distance to and from school. Yes, one of Georg’s daughters was ...
Although money didn’t appear to be of concern to the family depicted in the movie, in real life, the fortunes of the von Trapp family had faltered during the global depression of the early 1930s to the extent that, at the time the film is set, most of the household servants had been dismissed and the family had begun taking in boarders. The lack of...
Both in real and reel life, the family singers won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival. But the sound of music was already well established within the household before Maria arrived. In a reversal of the stern, music-forbidding retired naval officer depicted in the film, the real Georg and his first wife encouraged song in their home years b...
Like in the movie, Maria and Georg were married only a year after the novice arrived as governess. Unlike the movie, they were actually married in 1927, more than a decade before fleeing Austria in 1938. Georg was 25 years older than Maria, and the match wasn’t love at first sight. Although Georg had fallen for Maria and asked her to stay with him ...
The family’s exit from Austria under Nazi occupation was also given a glossy Hollywood treatment, depicting the von Trapps as having to cross the alps on foot to avoid detection. In reality such a journey would have brought them directly into Germany, not Switzerland as in the film. “Don’t they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border ...
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Dec 10, 2022 · Like in The Sound of Music, the story of the von Trapp family begins with a woman named Maria, whose real name was Maria Augusta Kutschera. Born in 1905, the real-life Maria grew up in a secular family but became enchanted with religion after accidentally attending a Palm Sunday service. According to the National Archives, Maria left the State ...
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Mar 2, 2015 · Eliot Elisofon—LIFE The Von Trapp Family singers warm up before a performance in New York's Town Hall. The musical "The Sound of Music" was based on their life in Austria. December 5, 1938.
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (4 April 1880 – 30 May 1947) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Trapp was the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of World War I , [b] sinking 11 Allied merchant ships totaling 47,653 GRT and two Allied warships displacing 12,641 tons ...
- 1898–1918
- Austro-Hungarian Navy
- Corvette Captain (Lieutenant-Commander)
Apr 28, 2022 · 1280. Birthplace: Nuremberg, Germany. Death: 1355 (74-76) Immediate Family: Daughter of Friedrich III, Burggraf von Nürnberg and Helene of Saxony von Sachsen, Burggräfin. Wife of Emich I, Graf von Nassau-Hadamar. Mother of Anna von Nassau-Hadamar; Judith Nassau-Hadamar; Johann II, Graf von Nassau-Hadamar and Margarethe von Nassau, Gräfin von ...
Mar 2, 2015 · The actors playing members of the Von Trapp family in a promotional portrait for 'The Sound Of Music', directed by Robert Wise, 1965. Left to right: Nicholas Hammond as Friedrich, Kym Karath as Gretl, Angela Cartwright as Brigitta, Julie Andrews as Maria, Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp, Charmian Carr as Liesl, Heather Menzies as Louisa, Debbie Turner as Marta and Duane Chase as Kurt.
