Were the von trapps jewish
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Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family
En Español
Winter 2005, Vol. 37, No. 4
By Joan Gearin
I first saw the movie The Sound of Music as a young child, probably in the late 1960s. I liked the singing, and Maria was so pretty and kind! As I grew older, more aware of world history, and saturated by viewing the movie at least once yearly, I was struck and annoyed by the somewhat sanitized story of the von Trapp family it told, as well as the bad 1960s hairdos and costumes. "It's not historically accurate!" I'd protest, a small archivist in the making. In the early 1970s I saw Maria von Trapp herself on Dinah Shore's television show, and boy, was she not like the Julie Andrews version of Maria! She didn't look like Julie, and she came across as a true force of nature. In thinking about the fictionalized movie version of Maria von Trapp as compared to this very real Maria von Trapp, I came to realize that the story of the von Trapp family was probably something closer to human, and therefore much more interesting, than the movie led me to believe.
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Maria von Trapp
Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905–1987)
This article is about the matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. For her stepdaughter, see Maria Franziska von Trapp.
Maria von Trapp DHS | |
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Von Trapp in 1948 | |
| Born | Maria Augusta Kuczera (1905-01-26)26 January 1905 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 28 March 1987(1987-03-28) (aged 82) Morrisville, Vermont, U.S. |
| Resting place | Trapp Family Cemetery, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, Vermont, U.S. |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Johannes von Trapp, plus 7 stepchildren |
Maria Augusta von TrappDHS (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often styled as "Baroness",[1][2][3] was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.[4][5] She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.[6][7]
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Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train on its way to Vienna on January 26th, 1905. Her mother died when she was about two years old and Maria grew up with a foster mother (an elderly cousin of her father) in a little house on the outskirts of Vienna.
She underwent a very strict education without any other children around. She spent five years in a grade school followed by three years in a high school and four years in a State Teacher's College.
Raised as a socialist and atheist, her attitude changed dramatically when she, intending to hear a Bach concert, entered her college church. A well known priest, Father Kronseder, started to preach and Maria found herself overwhelmed by what he had to say. A meeting with this priest changed Maria's life and belief.
Maria joined the Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg to become a nun. It was decided that Maria should leave the convent for a year to go to the Trapp Villa to work as a governess for the captain's daughter who lay in bed with rheumatic fever.
After the first year, the children asked their father to do something to make their
Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train on its way to Vienna on January 26th, 1905. Her mother died when she was about two years old and Maria grew up with a foster mother (an elderly cousin of her father) in a little house on the outskirts of Vienna.
She underwent a very strict education without any other children around. She spent five years in a grade school followed by three years in a high school and four years in a State Teacher's College.
Raised as a socialist and atheist, her attitude changed dramatically when she, intending to hear a Bach concert, entered her college church. A well known priest, Father Kronseder, started to preach and Maria found herself overwhelmed by what he had to say. A meeting with this priest changed Maria's life and belief.
Maria joined the Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg to become a nun. It was decided that Maria should leave the convent for a year to go to the Trapp Villa to work as a governess for the captain's daughter who lay in bed with rheumatic fever.
After the first year, the children asked their father to do something to make their
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