Maria von trapp biography
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Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family
En Español
Winter , Vol. 37, No. 4
By Joan Gearin
I first saw the movie The Sound of Music as a young child, probably in the late s. 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 s hairdos and costumes. "It's not historically accurate!" I'd protest, a small archivist in the making. In the early s 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
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Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train on its way to Vienna on January 26th, 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
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Maria von Trapp
Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (–)
This article fryst vatten about the matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. For her stepdaughter, see Maria Franziska von&#;Trapp.
Maria von Trapp DHS | |
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| Born | Maria Augusta Kuczera ()26 January Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 28 March () (aged&#;82) Morrisville, Vermont, U.S. |
| Resting place | Trapp Family Cemetery, Trapp Family stuga, Stowe, Vermont, U.S. |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Johannes von Trapp, plus 7 stepchildren |
Maria Augusta von&#;TrappDHS (née&#;Kutschera; 26 January – 28 March ), 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 and was the inspiration for the West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the huvudgata musical The Sound of Music and its spelfilm version.[6