Maria Franziska von Trapp
Maria Franziska von Trapp (born September 28, 1914 in Zell am See ; † February 18, 2014 in Stowe , Vermont ) was an American missionary of Austrian origin.
Life
The second oldest daughter of Georg Ludwig von Trapp formed the world-famous Trapp Family Singers together with her six siblings and her stepmother Maria Augusta Trapp . The life of this family was the basis for the Broadway musical The Sound of Music (1959) and its film version My Songs - My Dreams (1965).
The Trapp family emigrated after Austria was "annexed" to Germany. She had previously refused to appear at Adolf Hitler's birthday party . Georg von Trapp resisted being drafted into the German armed forces . They came to the United States in 1938, moved to Vermont in 1942, and gave concerts across the country. After the death of Georg von Trapp in 1947 and the end of her tours, Maria Franziska became a missionary in Papua New Guinea . Most recently she lived at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Maria Franziska von Trapp received US citizenship in 1948.
In 2007 the Trapp family in Braunau am Inn received the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Prize . In July 2008 Maria Franziska visited the Villa Trapp in Aigen (Salzburg) and her birthplace (now owned by the Porsche family ) in Zell am See. On July 25, 2008, she and her half-brother Johannes, her sister-in-law Erika, the widow of Werner von Trapp and Ernst Florian Winter , the widower of her sister Johanna (1919–1994), took part in a celebration to mark the inauguration of Villa Trapp as a hotel .
Maria Franziska von Trapp died on February 18, 2014 at the age of 100.
See also
- The Trapp Family (German Heimatfilm, 1956)
Web links
- Entry Salzburgwiki
- Maria Franziska von Trapp visits Salzburg (derStandard.at)
- Vacation with the Trapp family (op-online.de, November 9, 2009)
- Maria Trapp: Last member of the singing family dead. Obituary in the Salzburger Nachrichten of February 21, 2014
- Obituary on the Salzburg homepage on February 21, 2014
- Death of Maria von Trapp Klingendes Österreich Süddeutsche Zeitung February 24, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baptismal Book - TFBXIII | Zell am See - St. Hippolyt | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trapp, Maria Franziska von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American singer and missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zell am See |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 2014 |
| Place of death | Stowe , Vermont, USA |