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Author: [personal profile] selenak, [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/172018.html?thread=2293490#cmt2293490


Article about Bolivian musicians trapped at Rheinsberg and seeing ghosts and wolves.

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard's prompt: So, Rheinsberg ghosts: Fritz, Heinrich, or both? Heinrich's the one who died and is buried there, but Fritz is more likely to get up to mischief. Both would be interested in having musicians to entertain them after death. Or as mobster author put it, "FRITZ I KNOW YOU LOVE MUSIC BUT LET THOSE BOLIVIANS GO"

[personal profile] selenak: LOL. I say both.

selenak's ficlet )

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard: The Canadian savages were my second favorite part, after the Italian greyhounds mistaken for wolves!

mildred_of_midgard's ficlet )

Icons!

Aug. 17th, 2020 05:09 pm
selenak: (Sanssouci)
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As Mildred has pointed out, today is the anniversary of our antihero's death. It's also the anniversary of the salon's spark of ignition, and in celebration of that, I present icons made from the photos taken during my recent expection to Brandenburg. You're welcome to take whichever strikes your fancy:

Sanssouci

Sanssouci_1 Antinous Sanssouci_2

Rheinsberg

Rheinsberg2 Rheinsberg1 Rheinsberg_4 Rheinsberg_3


People - Fredersdorf, Lehndorff and AW's bust at Rheinsberg


Fredersdorf3 Fredersdorf2 Dandy_Lehndorff AW_in_Rheinsberg
selenak: (City - KathyH)
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On to Part II. Frederick the Great said as early as the Seven Years War, and several times thereafter, that the only place where he'd been truly happy had been Rheinsberg, the namesake of our community. He was there for only four years (1736 to 1740). Later, he gave it to his brother Heinrich, who lived there for nearly half a century. When Fontane visited in the 1850s and 1860s, he was a bit frustrated that Heinrich by then was nearly forgotten, and the four years of Fritz were all anyone talked about, but I'm happy to report this is no longer the case. Lots of Heinrich stories provided by the audio guide and the inscriptions, though on the downside, the real life castellans are trying to convince you of Frederick's heterosexuality and swear he had a romance with a local Rheinsberg girl named Sabine. (In addition to being a married man, of course; this was the only time Frederick and his wife Elisabeth Christine truly lived together.) Never you mind, though: Rheinsberg!

Rheinsberger Seerosen

Palace of Dreams, Obelisk of Fraternal Revenge )


Now, not far away from Rheinsberg are the estates given to two boyfriends of Hohenzollern princes with very different fates. Say about Fritz what you want, but his taste in long term boyfriends was A plus, whereas Heinrich invariably, with only one or two exceptions, ended up with charismatic money spending jerks. None spent more money than Kaphengst, until at last according to legend Fritz told Heinrich in unprintable language to kick him out of Rheinsberg. Heinrich did this via setting him up with Meseberg, a beautiful palace in which today the Federal Republic of Germany puts its guests of state when they visit for more than a few hours. Meseberg is near enough so Heinrich could visit easily, but Kaphengst managed to run it down and get into debts again, at which point Heinrich had to sell his collection of paintings to Catherine the Great in order to bail him out, though he did call it quits then. Considering the currentn day use and the needs of top security, you can't visit Meseberg from the outside, but you can have a look (and conclude Kaphengst must have been spectacular in bed):

Meseberg the Beautiful )

Meanwhile, the guy who has the claim of having been Frederick the Great's most long term partner, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, starting out as his valet, got the much more small scale estate of Zernikow as soon as Frederick ascended to the throne in 1740, but he made it florish, being the extremely competent organizer and business man he was.

Competence is sexy, and thus so is Zernikow )


And thus it's time to head back from the province to the capital in this pic spam. On the Part III!
selenak: (Contessina)
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Illustrious readers, honored guests, with this vid spam, I invite you to the name patron of our community, Rheinsberg, to an evening in the opera (or several). For the palace in which Frederick spent four years - the happiest in his life, he said - and his younger brother Heinrich over 40 - these days in summer hosts a festival for young opera singers. Methinks both brothers with the passion for music would approve. To Cavaradossi's aria from Tosca, have a trailer with wonderful views of the palace:



The other vids beneath the cut offer not one area but excerpts from the various operas performed, but I've also included non-operatic Rhinesberg vids for the opera averse, for this is truly a place to be happy in.

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön )

Lastly, one fantastic overview with no singing, showing Rheinsberg in early autumn with vivid colours, just breathtakingly beautiful:

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