| Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria | | Empress of Austria-Hungary |
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HRH Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (1837-1854) | | Born | December 24, 1837(1837-12-24) | | Munich, Bavaria | | Died | September 10, 1898 (aged 60) | | Geneva, Switzerland | | Consort | April 24, 1854 - September 10, 1898 | | Consort to | Franz Joseph I | | Issue | Sophie, Gisela, Rudolf, Marie-Valerie | | Royal House | House of Wittelsbach | | Father | Maximilian, Duke in Bavaria | | Mother | Princess Ludovika of Bavaria | Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, (December 24, 1837 – September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was the Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. Her father was Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and her mother was Ludovika, Royal Princess of Bavaria; her family home was Possenhofen Castle. From an early age, she was called Sisi (or Sissi in films and novels) by family and friends. Image File history File links Elisabeth_von_Ungarn-Östenreich. ...
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Franz Joseph I (in Hungarian I. Ferenc József, in English Francis Joseph I) (August 18, 1830 – November 21, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and a German prince (Deutscher Fürst). ...
Sophie, Archduchess of Austria (March 5, 1855 – May 29, 1857) was born to Elisabeth of Bavaria and Franz Josef of Austria, their first child. ...
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Marie Valerie, Archduchess of Austria (April 22, 1868 - September 6, 1924) was the fourth and last child of Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sissi) and Franz Josef of Austria. ...
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Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria (Bamberg, 4 October 1808 – 15 November 1888 in Munich) was the husband of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, a daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. ...
Marie Ludovika Wilhelmine (or Louise), Princess of Bavaria (August 30, 1808 - January 25, 1892) was the sixth child of King Maximilian I of Bavaria and his second wife, Fredricka Caroline Willemina of Baden. ...
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Franz Joseph I Franz Joseph I (in English also Francis Joseph) ( August 18, 1830 – November 21, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and King of Hungary from 1867 until 1916. ...
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[edit] Her life She was born in Munich, Bavaria. Elisabeth accompanied her mother and her 18-year-old sister, Helene, on a trip to the resort of Bad Ischl, Upper Austria [1], where they hoped Helene would attract the attention of their cousin, 23-year-old Franz Joseph, then Emperor of Austria. Instead, Franz Joseph chose Elisabeth, and the couple were married in Vienna on the 24th of April 1854. Elisabeth later wrote that she regretted accepting this marriage for the rest of her life. For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ...
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Franz Joseph I Franz Joseph (in English also Francis Joseph) (August 18, 1830 - November 21, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and King of Hungary from 1867 until 1916. ...
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Elisabeth had difficulty adapting to the strict etiquette practiced at the Habsburg court. Nevertheless she bore the Emperor three children in quick succession: Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855–1857), Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856–1932), and the hoped-for crown prince, Rudolf (1858–1889). A decade later, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868–1924) followed. Elisabeth was denied any major influence on her own children's upbringing, however — they were raised by her mother-in-law Sophie, and soon after Rudolf's birth the marriage started to deteriorate, undone by Elisabeth's increasingly erratic behaviour. Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy; also used as the flag of the Austrian Empire until the Ausgleich of 1867. ...
Sophie, Archduchess of Austria (March 5, 1855 – May 29, 1857) was born to Elisabeth of Bavaria and Franz Josef of Austria, their first child. ...
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Marie Valerie, Archduchess of Austria (April 22, 1868 - September 6, 1924) was the fourth and last child of Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sissi) and Franz Josef of Austria. ...
Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine, Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Bavaria (27 January 1805 – 28 May 1872) was born to King Maximilian I of Bavaria and his second wife, Karoline of Baden. ...
To ease her pain and illnesses, Elisabeth embarked on a life of travel, seeing very little of her offspring, visiting places such as Madeira, Hungary, England, and Corfu, where she commissioned the building of a castle which she called Achilleion — after her death the building was sold to the German Emperor Wilhelm II. She not only became known for her beauty, but also for her fashion sense, diet and exercise regimens, passion for riding sports, and a series of reputed lovers. She paid extreme attention to her appearance and would spend most of her time preserving her beauty. Her diet and exercise regimens were strictly enforced to maintain her 20-inch (50 cm) waistline and reduced her to near emaciation at times (symptoms of what is now recognized as anorexia). One of the few things she would eat was raw veal meat juice squeezed from her juice press. Some of her reputed lovers included George "Bay" Middleton, a dashing Anglo–Scot who was probably the father of Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (Mrs. Winston Churchill). She also tolerated, to a certain degree, Franz Joseph's affair with actress Katharina Schratt. For other uses, see Madeira (disambiguation). ...
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National unrest within the Habsburg monarchy caused by the rebellious Hungarians led, in 1867, to the foundation of the Austro–Hungarian double monarchy, making Elisabeth Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. Elisabeth had always sympathized with the Hungarian cause and, reconciled and reunited with her alienated husband, she joined Franz Joseph in Budapest, where their coronation took place. In due course, their fourth child, Archduchess Marie Valerie was born (1868–1924). Afterwards, however, she again took up her former life of restlessly travelling through Europe, decades of what basically became a walking trance. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (568x866, 31 KB) Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Kaiserin Elisabeth File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Elisabeth of Bavaria ...
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The Empress also engaged in writing poetry (such as the "Nordseelieder" and "Winterlieder", both inspirations from her favorite German poet, Heinrich Heine). Shaping her own fantasy world in poetry, she referred to herself as Titania, Shakespeare's Fairy Queen. Most of her poetry refers to her journeys, classical Greek and romantic themes, as well as ironic mockery on the Habsburg dynasty. In these years, Elisabeth also took up with an intensive study of both ancient and modern Greek, drowning in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Numerous Greek lecturers (such as Marinaky, Christomanos, and Barker) had to accompany the Empress on her hour-long walks while reading Greek to her. Her Greek genealogical roots are presented in Greek pedigree of Empress Sisi. According to contemporary scholars, Empress Elisabeth knew Greek better than each of the Bavarian Greek Queens in the 19th century. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Chaim Harry Heine, December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. ...
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In 1889, Elisabeth's life was shattered by the death of her only son: 31-year-old Crown Prince Rudolf and his young lover Baroness Mary Vetsera were found dead, apparently by suicide. The scandal is known by the name Mayerling, after the name of Rudolf's hunting lodge in Lower Austria. This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or cleanup. ...
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After Rudolf's death, the Empress continued to be a myth, a sensation wherever she went: A long black gown that could be buttoned up at the bottom, a white parasol made of leather and a brown fan to shun her face from curious looks became the trademarks of the legendary Empress of Austria. Only few snapshots of Elisabeth in her last years are left, taken by photographers who were lucky enough to catch her without her noticing. The moments Elisabeth would show up in Vienna and see her husband were rare. Interestingly, their correspondence increased during those last years and the relationship between the Empress and the Emperor of Austria had become platonic and warm. On her imperial steamer, Miramar, Empress Elisabeth traveled restlessly through the Mediterranean. Her favorite places were Cap Martin at the French Riviera, where tourism had only started in the second half of the 19th century, Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Bad Ischl in Austria, where she would spend her summers, and Corfu. More than that, the Empress had visited countries no other sovereign had seen at the time: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Malta, Greece, Turkey and Egypt. Traveling had become the sense of her life but also an escape from herself. The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...
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[edit] Assassination On September 10, 1898, in Geneva, Switzerland, Elisabeth, aged 60, was stabbed to death in the heart with a needle file by a young anarchist named Luigi Lucheni, in an act of propaganda of the deed. Bleeding to death from a puncture wound to the heart, Elisabeth's last words were "What happened to me?" Reportedly, her assassin had hoped to kill a prince from the House of Orléans and, failing to find him, turned on Elisabeth instead as she was walking along the promenade of Lake Geneva about to board a steamship for Montreux with her lady-of-courtesy, Countess Sztaray. As Lucheni afterward said, "I wanted to kill a royal. It did not matter which one." is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Luigi Lucheni (April 22, 1873, Paris - October 19, 1910) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria (commonly referred to as Sisi) in 1898. ...
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[edit] The myth
 Monument of Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi) in Szeged, Hungary. While Elisabeth's role and influence on Austro-Hungarian politics should not be overestimated (she is only marginally mentioned in scholarly books on Austrian history), she has undoubtedly become a 20th century icon, often compared to Diana, Princess of Wales. She was considered to be a free spirit who abhorred conventional court protocol. She has inspired filmmakers and theatrical producers alike. Image File history File linksMetadata Hungary_szeged_elisabeth_2. ...
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In the 1980s, Brigitte Hamann, a historian renowned for her book on Hitler's early years in Vienna (see bibliography), wrote a biography of Elisabeth, again fuelling interest in Franz Joseph's consort. Brigitte Hamann Ph. ...
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Tourism has profited enormously from the renewed interest in Elisabeth and vice versa, both in Austria and abroad. Apart from the usual souvenirs such as T-shirts and coffee mugs, visitors are eager to see the various residences Elisabeth frequented at different points in her life. These include her apartments in the Hofburg and the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, the imperial villa in Ischl, the Achilleion in Corfu, Greece that she built in 1890, soon after her son's tragic death, and her summer residence in Gödöllő, Hungary. “Tourist†redirects here. ...
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Elisabeth loved Hungary far more than Austria and surrounded herself with Hungarian ladies-in-waiting, being particularly close to Marie Festetics and Ida Ferenczy. She insisted that her attendants speak Hungarian, which she herself spoke fluently. One of her closest friends, and a reputed lover, was Count Andrassy who later became Emperor Franz-Joseph's Foreign Minister. Elisabeth's attachment to Hungary benefitted the Empire because the Hungarian people returned the attachment. They considered her the only Habsburg they trusted. Her flagrant and well-known preference for Hungary mollified the Hungarians while antagonizing the Viennese, who were seething with resentment over Habsburg arrogance, and solidified the Empire. There are several sites in Hungary named after her, most famously the Erzsébet híd (Elisabeth Bridge) in Budapest.
[edit] In literature, film, television & theater In the German-speaking world, her name will forever be associated with a trilogy of romantic films about her life directed by Ernst Marischka starring a young and still unknown Romy Schneider in the title role: Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 – May 29, 1982) was a German-Austrian actress. ...
The three films, now newly restored, are shown every Christmas on Austrian and German TV and have done much to create the myth surrounding Elisabeth. It may be assumed that for the average Austrian and German these films are the only source of knowledge as far as Elisabeth's life is concerned. A condensed version dubbed in English was published under the title Forever My Love. Elisabeth in a riding habit, from Vanity Fair, 1884. ...
Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (Sissi - The Young Empress) is a 1956 film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer and Josef Meinrad. ...
Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress) is a 1957 film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer and Josef Meinrad. ...
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Romy Schneider loathed the role, claiming "Sisi sticks to me like glue." Later she was able to achieve a sort of satisfaction, appearing as a much more realistic and fascinating Elisabeth in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig a 1972 movie about Elisabeth's cousin, Ludwig II of Bavaria. A portrait of herself in this film was the only one of her roles she had displayed in her home. Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 – May 29, 1982) was a German-Austrian actress. ...
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Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Bavaria (August 25, 1845 – June 13, 1886) was king of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. ...
Ava Gardner also played the Empress in the 1968 film "Mayerling" (Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve played the doomed lovers). She too, had one sole film portrait of herself on display in her home. It was from the aforementioned film. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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She was the subject of a 1991 German movie called Sisi/Last Minute (original Sisi und der Kaiserkuß "Sisi and the kiss of the Emperor"). The movie starred Vanessa Wagner as Sisi, Nils Tavernier as Emperor Franz Joseph and Sonja Kirchberger as Nene.[1] Franz Joseph I (in Hungarian I. Ferenc József, in English Francis Joseph I) (August 18, 1830 – November 21, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916. ...
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In 1974, Elisabeth was portrayed in the British television series Fall of Eagles by Diane Keen (as the young Elisabeth) and Rachel Gurney (as Elisabeth at the time of Prince Rudolf's death). Fall Of Eagles is a British television drama made by the BBC in 1974. ...
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In 2007, Takarazuka Revue Company performed a large musical version of her life.
Her story also became part of a series: The Royal Diaries: Elisabeth: The Princess Bride.
In one of the episodes of the Austrian TV show, Kommissar Rex (1994), about a police dog who always solves his owner and police inspector cases, the myth of Sissi is shown under the influence of her legacy in a young woman who often sneaks into a palace where Sissi lived and starts acting like her, during the night, when the museum is closed. This includes riding in the park, using hair ribbons similar to the ones Elisabeth was known for using and even sleeping in the Empress' bed, dressed in vintage nightwear, after had brushed her hair the Sissi way, separating it in two parts spread over the pillow, so that the strings won't be messed up by the morning. All this, of course, using Sissi's old brush. This episode is the 13th of Season 5 of the show (and the last from that season), is called "Sissi" and originally aired on 22 April 1999. The empress-obsessed character's name is Marion and she is played by actress Marion Mitterhammer.
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Fritz Kreisler composed a comic opera 'Sissi', which premiered in Vienna in 1932. The libretto was written by Ernst and Hubert Marischka. Pia Douwes as Elisabeth and Viktor Gernot as Franz Josef in the original 1992 Vienna production Kata Janza as Elisabeth and Szilveszter P. Szabo as Death in Budapest 2002 Stanley Burleson as Death and Pia Douwes as Elisabeth in Scheveningen 1999 Elisabeth is a German-language musical commissioned by the...
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Pia Douwes as Elisabeth and Viktor Gernot as Franz Josef in the original 1992 Vienna production Kata Janza as Elisabeth and Szilveszter P. Szabo as Death in Budapest 2002 Stanley Burleson as Death and Pia Douwes as Elisabeth in Scheveningen 1999 Elisabeth is a German-language musical commissioned by the...
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French ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem appeared to great acclaim at the Paris Opera Ballet in a piece titled "Sissi Imperatice" , choreographed by Maurice Bejart. Sylvie Guillem (born February 25, 1965 in Paris) is a French ballet dancer who has performed with the Paris Opera Ballet and is currently a guest principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. ...
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[edit] Ancestry Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria (Bamberg, 4 October 1808 – 15 November 1888 in Munich) was the husband of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, a daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. ...
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Marie Ludovika Wilhelmine (or Louise), Princess of Bavaria (August 30, 1808 - January 25, 1892) was the sixth child of King Maximilian I of Bavaria and his second wife, Fredricka Caroline Willemina of Baden. ...
Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (February 14, 1755 in Karlsruhe--December 16, 1801 in Arboga, Sweden) was heir-apparent of the Margraviate of Baden. ...
Frederica Caroline Wilhelmina (German: ) of Baden was the eldest daughter and child of Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden and his wife, Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt. ...
[edit] Literature - Brigitte Hamann: The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Knopf: 1986) (ISBN 0-394-53717-3) (410pp.).
- Brigitte Hamann: Sissi, Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Taschen America: 1997) (ISBN 3-8228-7865-0) (short, illustrated).
- Barry Denenburg: The Royal Diaries Elisabeth, The Princess Bride
- Konstantin Christomanos: Diaries (Tagebuchblaetter, several editions in Modern Greek, German, French)
- Matt Pavelich: Our Savage (Shoemaker & Hoard: 2004) (ISBN 1-59376-023-X) (270pp.).
- Nicole Avril: L'impératrice, Paris, 1993
- Matteo Tuveri: Specchi ad angoli obliqui. Diario poetico di Elisabetta d’Austria, Aracne Editrice, Roma, 2006 (ISBN 88-548-0741-9)
- Matteo Tuveri: Tabularium. Considerazioni su Elisabetta d'Austria, Aracne, Roma, 2007 (ISBN 978-88-548-1148-5)
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Maria Anna of Sardinia Maria Anna of Sardinia Maria Anna Carolina Pia (German: Maria Anna von Savoyen) (19 September 1803 – 4 May 1884 in Prague) was Empress consort of Austria, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia. ...
Arms of Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria This is a list of the Austrian Empresses, consorts of the Emperors of Austria, an hereditary title proclaimed in 1804 by the Austrian Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Francis II before the end of the Holy Roman Empire. ...
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This is a list of all rulers of Hungary since Árpád. ...
// The details of the arrival of the Croats are scarcely documented. ...
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