#Maria Theresia (2017)

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hello, I watched the first season of Sisi thanks to your subtitles, do you plan to do the subtitles in english for the second season too?

I haven't decided yet. It also depends on whether I will be able to get files for it. RTL eventually filed a DMCA for my subs of season 01, probably because there are official subs from Australia now of the first season. So I will keep my eyes open if there is an official announcement for English subs for S2 anytime soon and if not, I might do it. If there is, I will keep my hands off it since my idea behind this blog was to translate stuff that hasn't gotten an offical English translation (yet). I mean I know that Sisi S2 English subs do exist since they had a screening for their Lithuanian and Latvian crew with it but who knows when or if they will be made publicly available.

I also promised someone to finally translate Maria Theresia - Part 05 and haven't come around to do it yet. Btw I'm disappointed in PBS who bought the rights to the entire series and as far I know still haven't released it in the US which is why there is still no official English translation of it.

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MEN THINK ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE. WOMEN THINK ABOUT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

JUDITH OF BAVARIA (797-843) — Daughter of Count Welf I of Bavaria, Judith was a Carolingian Empress as the second wife of Louis I the Pious. Mother of Gisela and Charles the Bald, she foght for both her own influence at court and for the succession of her son over the claims of his elder half-brothers, the sons of Louis I from his first marriage. Charles became the Emperor in 875, after the death of Louis II, his nephew and a son of his half-brother Lothair / fancast: Annabel Scholey

MARIA OF AUSTRIA (1528-1603) — Daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Isabella of Portugal. She served as Regent of Spain both jointly with her husband, Maximilian (before their accession to the imperial throne), and in person, for her father, and brother, Philip II. Her children include two Holy Roman Emperors, Rudolf II and Matthias, over whom she held great influence, and queens consorts of Spain, and France / fancast: Olivia Cooke

EMPRESS MAUD (1102-1167) — Daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland. Her first marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, gave her the title under which she came down into history, and was a source of great pride to Maud. Rightful heiress of Henry I, she confronted her cousin, King Stephen, in the civil war, known as the Anarchy, fighting ferociously for her rights. She failed in this for herself but won for her son Henry, who became king and established the Plantagenet dynasty in England / cast: Alison Pill in The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

MARIA THERESA (1717-1780) — She succeded her father Charles VI as the ruler of Habsburg monarchy in 1740, and devoutedly defended it against its enemies in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Year's War. Wife of the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I, she was a forceful personality and a competent ruler herself, reigning first in her own right, and later, jointly with her son Empreror Joseph II. Her children include two Holy Romam Emperors (Joseph II and Leopold II), queens consorts of Naples ans Sicily, and France / cast: Marie-Luise Stockinger in Maria Theresia (2017)

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Marie-Luise Stockinger as the titular character in Maria Theresia (TV Mini-Series, 2017–2021).

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Isabella of Parma and Maria Christina of Austria in episode 5 of Maria Theresia (2017-2021)

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Why do you hate Versailles so much? I haven't seen it, but from the point-of-view of someone who knows fuck all about the plot, it looks fine - at the very least, nothing to inspire the kind of violent hatred I have for Maria Theresia. I even considered watching it at one point, but there was always something better on TV or Netflix, so I never got to it. So I guess I just want to be forewarned before possibly throwing myself into it?

Speaking about bad period drama - have you seen that Maria Theresia show that premiered on RTL in 2017? Because for me, it's what Versailles is for you. Except I don't know how much you like Louis XIV., but for all her flaws Maria Theresia is an icon of the former Habsburg monarchy, so I kinda took this show personally.

Hi! Well, that's the thing: Versailles looks fine. I like watching period dramas in general so I had it on my radar, and since I had mostly seen positive reviews of it I went into it with the impression that it was a good historical series. Not good as in "is trashy but in a fun, good way!", not good as in "inaccurate but in a self aware, entertaining good way!". But in an actually good way. So I was almost shocked when I watched the pilot because it is legit one of the worst pilots I've ever seen, like I cannot believe they actually green-lighted the series after that. I kept watching because many series I love have mediocre to bad first episodes so I didn't want it to judge it solely on that, and since it did got better (not hard to achieve, since they touched rock-bottom with that pilot) I ended up watching the whole season. Which in defense of the series, was ok. But season 2 wasn't ok, and I had to force myself to finish season 3 (which I regret, I should've just dropped it).

Ultimately if I had to boil down my dislikeness to one thing it would be that it's just very badly written series, period. When you're watching it you feel as if the series had over fifty screenwriters who never read each other's writings. There is an incredible disconnection between episodes, so many plotlines are introduced to never be properly explored and eventually abandoned only episodes later. Every season felt like a soft reboot of the previous one (season 1 finishes in a HUGE CLIFHANGER... that is immediately solved five minutes into season 2 and then never mentioned again. This was the moment I realized I was watching truly bad TV), the original characters dragged the story and stole the screentime that the historical characters painfully needed, and SA was used for nothing more than shock value more than once (not to Outlander extremes, but still felt very unnecessary).

It is also very historically inaccurate, and I wouldn't mind it (I've read one book related to Louis XIV in my entire life, I don't care much about him as a historical figure) if it wasn't the worst type of historical inaccurate: the lazy type. Inaccuracies not because we think that the real history is boring and needs to be more bold and sexy *looking at all the recent Sisi adaptations*, but because we were just too lazy to research beyond the very basis and thus we accidentally end up creating dozens of plot-holes. Exemple: Philippe Duke of Orléans (Louis XIV's brother) was married to Henriette of England and they had two daughters. During season 1 the daughters are never EVER mentioned, not even once. Henriette even gets pregnant at one point and everyone acts as if this were her first child. So I thought the daughters had been written out of the series (terrible move if they were planning to reach to the point in history where Louis XIV married off his niece to Carlos II of Spain). BUT THEN in the first episode of season 2 when Philippe's second wife is introduced she says something along the lines of "I brought presents for Marie Louise and Anne Marie", the two daughters who had never been introduced to the audience up to that point!! Which is just a terrible way to revel that the two most important supporting characters of season 1, whose relationship had been a key plotline, had had children all along and was just never brought up. At the end the series did reach to the point Louis XIV arranged his niece's marriage so Marie Louise make an appearance, and it showed that never properly writing her into the series before was a terrible move, because suddenly a sixteen-years-old girl popped out in the middle of season 3 and we just had to accept that we had never seen her until that point because her father didn't remember she existed?? Don't you just love how well researched and written this series is??

Versailles is just personally frustrating to me. I've watched The Spanish Princess, which is probably one of the worse if not the worst period drama ever written, and it doesn't make as angry as Versailles. Because with TSP we all agree that it's bad, but with Versailles I feel that I watched a different series that the one everyone else saw because it cannot be that no one else noticed how goddamn bad it is.

And I haven't watched the Maria Theresia series but I probably will, solely because there's not that much Habsburg related media out there. You spoiled me something about it and I remember I actually said WHAT out loud when I read it because I couldn't believe they would get her SO wrong. I'm glad you told me because if I had gone into the series without knowing it would've punched me in the face lol.

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i mean the empress netflix series about empress Elisabeth of austria which czech used part of austria

Ah, you mean Sisi. I haven't seen it, unfortunately, so I can't share my thoughts.

While she is a subject of several media portrayals (the movies from the 50s probably being the most famous), Sisi has never been that one historical person about whom I have to see everything. Albeit crowned as Queen of Bohemia, she didn't leave much impact on my homeland aside a few official visits. There are other Habsurbgs that deserve more attention, namely Maria Theresa and her son, Joseph II. So I can actually recommend Austrian-Czech miniseries Maria Theresia (2017 - 2021) that I thoroughly enjoyed.

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Old Vienna

Lotte Tobisch

Anno 1963

Charlotte „Lotte“ Tobisch-Labotýn (* 28. März 1926 in Wien; † 19. Oktober 2019 in Baden) war eine österreichische Managerin, Schauspielerin und Autorin. Sie galt als Grande Dame der Wiener Society und als Inbegriff der eleganten Wiener Salondame.

Große Bekanntheit erlangte sie als Organisatorin des Wiener Opernballs, den sie von 1981 bis 1996 leitete. Zuletzt war sie u. a. als Präsidentin des Vereins Künstler helfen Künstlern in Baden (Niederösterreich) tätig und trat auch gelegentlich in Fernsehsendungen auf.

FAMILIE

Lotte Tobisch-Labotýn (oder Lotte Tobisch von Labotýn) entstammt einer altösterreichischen Patrizierfamilie, deren Vorfahren sich bis 1229 nachweisen lassen. Sie wurde 1926 in Wien als Tochter des Architekten Karl Tobisch-Labotýn (1897–1977) und dessen Ehefrau Nora Anna Josefine Maria Krassl von Traissenegg (1906–2002) geboren, und zwar im Sanatorium Auersperg. Ihr Großvater Karl Anton Josef Tobisch (1860–1932) war Präsident des Landesschulrates von Böhmen und Mähren und wurde 1912 als Ritter Tobisch von Labotýn in den erblichen österreichischen Ritterstand erhoben. Als 1919 in Österreich die Aufhebung des Adels beschlossen wurde, betraf dies auch die Familie Tobisch von Labotýn.

Ihr Stiefvater war Gustav David Lederer (1878–1951); ihre Tante Margarete (1901–1991) war in zweiter Ehe mit Karl Steinhoff, Innenminister der DDR, verheiratet.

LEBEN

Sie genoss eine Ausbildung an gehobenen Schulen, wie im Schloss Marquartstein in Oberbayern oder im Wiener Gymnasium Sacre Coeur. Sie absolvierte eine Ausbildung am Franz Schubert Konservatorium. Während die Familie gegen Kriegsende nach Bayern floh, blieb Tobisch allein in Wien, wo sie den 37 Jahre älteren Erhard Buschbeck kennenlernte. Mit ihm ging sie eine Beziehung ein, die bis zu seinem Tod 1960 andauerte. 2013 sagte sie dazu: ... dass ich ausgebüchst bin mit dem Erhard Buschbeck, das war ein Skandal ohnegleichen in meiner Familie. Später lebte sie bis zu dessen Tod mit Michael Simon zusammen, 1963 bis 1967 israelischer Botschafter in Wien.

Als Schauspielerin war sie Schülerin von Raoul Aslan und gab ein frühes Debüt am Wiener Burgtheater, danach auch am Wiener Volkstheater sowie am Theater in der Josefstadt. Im Jahr 1986 erhielt Lotte Tobisch den Ehrenring des Burgtheaters, wo sie zuletzt die Rolle der Kaiserin Maria Theresia spielte. Aber auch als Filmschauspielerin war sie tätig. So spielte sie unter Georg Wilhelm Pabst die Rolle von Eva Braun im Film Der letzte Akt. Am Burgtheater war sie auch als künstlerischer Betriebsrat tätig. Der breiten Öffentlichkeit ist Lotte Tobisch vor allem als Organisatorin des Wiener Opernballs bekannt, den sie von 1981 bis 1996 leitete.

Unter Wissenschaftsminister Rudolf Scholten, der 1990 bis 1997 amtierte, wurde ihr 1996 die Berufsbezeichnung Professor verliehen. Über mehrere Jahre führte Tobisch einen Briefwechsel mit dem Philosophen und Soziologen Theodor W. Adorno, der 2003 in Buchform veröffentlicht wurde.

Am 1. Oktober 2007 wurde Tobisch im Wiener Rathaus von Kulturstadtrat Andreas Mailath-Pokorny die Ehrenmedaille der Bundeshauptstadt Wien in Gold verliehen. In den letzten Jahren engagierte sie sich verstärkt für soziale Projekte, unter anderem die Aktion Künstler helfen Künstlern und die Österreichische Alzheimer-Liga.

Bei der Nationalratswahl in Österreich 2017 unterstützte sie die Kandidatur der NEOS. Bei der Landtagswahl in Niederösterreich 2018 unterstützte sie im Wahlkampf die Volkspartei Niederösterreich, insbesondere die niederösterreichische Landeshauptfrau Johanna Mikl-Leitner.

Ab 1951 lebte sie in einer 120 m² großen Mietwohnung am Opernring Nr. 8. Sie starb am 19. Oktober 2019 im Alter von 93 Jahren im Künstlerheim in Baden bei Wien.

Ein Teilnachlass von Lotte Tobisch (14 Archivboxen) wurde im Sommer 2020 der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus übergeben.

1963, Im Abendkleid

1980, Porträtfoto der Burgschauspielerin und Ballmutter des Opernballs Lotte Tobisch

4. 2008

5. 2013

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Hopeless Romantic Ladies

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Marie-Luise Stockinger (1992, white unspecified)

Maria Theresia in Maria Theresia (2017)

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Maria Theresa’s immediate reaction to the death of Franz Stephan was one of profound grief. From then on she appeared in widow’s weeds, cutting her hair short and wearing a widow’s veil. She observed the Catholic Church’s catalogue of virtues for widows, which required the renunciation of worldly pleasures. Pomp and circumstance were not deemed becoming for a grieving widow. In her youth Maria Theresa had been all for courtly amusements; now she was transformed into a priggish matron

The main purpose of her life became the preservation of Franz Stephan’s memory. She developed a veritable cult of grieving focused on her late husband. After her death a scrap of paper was found in her prayer book on which she had calculated the exact duration of her marriage: ‘29 years, 6 months, 6 days; that makes 29 years, 335 months, 1540 weeks, 10,781 days, 258,744 hours’.

Increasingly the empress’s age began to make itself felt. We have a description of the ageing Maria Theresa written by her son Leopold, who visited his mother in Vienna in 1778. Her health was comparatively good for her age, although owing her age and her corpulence she is beginning to have great difficulty in walking; she starts breathing very heavily as soon as she walks or moves, and since she is embarrassed about this and tries to walk very quickly, she becomes ever more bad-tempered and disconsolate. Her memory has deteriorated considerably and she fails to remember many things or orders she has given, frequently repeating herself, which creates much confusion. She is starting to become somewhat hard of hearing(…) She has qualms about many things and constantly mistrusts herself and everybody else. She never enjoys anything and is constantly alone and melancholic, as she never has company and is always fretting about everything.

Maria Theresa died of pneumonia in the Vienna Hofburg on 29 November 1780. In her last hours she wore her beloved husband’s dressing gown. She is buried in the crypt of the Church of the Capuchin Friars in Vienna, where the double sarcophagus of Maria Theresa and Franz Stephan of Lorraine forms a dominant focal point.

Source: https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/maria-theresas-final-years-widowhood-and-death

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Things I Watched In 2018: Maria Theresia (2017)

I am Maria Theresia. Archduchess of Austria. My father, Charles VI, tasked me with the government of the dominions after him. Europe promised him support and let itself be payed greatly for it. But the promise was not worth the paper it was written down on. Prussia swore friendship and betrayed me first. France, to whom we had given Lorraine, the Bavarians, our brothers, they all deviously stabbed me in the back. I stand in front of you betrayed by my friends, chased by my enemies, abandoned by my closest relatives. My only salvation is you. You Hungarians, these proud and brave people, and... in my arrogance I hurt a valuable person’s honor and lost his friendship through this. I do not deserve you favor but... you see me here as a mother of a defenseless child, as a mother of a whole nation, as a defenseless woman that can only call on your bravery. My realm, my child, and I are in danger. I confide myself to your protection. And I promise to uphold all Hungarian rights.

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francis & maria theresa || the other side

(from ‘maria theresia 2017′ which is czech/german/hungarian production.)

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