Rosmarie Trapp, Whose Family Inspired ‘Sound of Music,’ Dies at 93

Hollywood Reporter ^ | MAY 19, 2022

[nickcarraway]

'The Sound of Music,' was based loosely on a 1949 book by Maria von Trapp. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, had seven children.

Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie The Sound of Music, has died.

She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in Morrisville, Vermont, Trapp Family Lodge announced. Her brother Johannes is president of the Stowe resort.

Rosmarie was the first daughter of Austrian naval Capt. Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp, and a younger half-sibling to the older von Trapp children portrayed on stage and in the movie. The family escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and performed singing tours throughout Europe and America. They settled in Vermont in the early 1940s and opened a ski lodge in Stowe.

[LiberalismDestroys]

How does Austria have a navy?

[Tallguy]

WW1 Austria had a coastline on the Adriatic.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Prior to WW1 The Austria-Hungary Empire had access to the Adriatic Sea.

[Reily]

It did in 1914!
Captain Von Trapp was a WWI U-boat skipper in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy. Was there most successful sub skipper - sank 14 Allied ships!

[Honorary Serb]

Memory Eternal!!!!

[nickcarraway]

Present day Croatia,Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The home port of their navy was Pola, Croatia, but they also had Trieste, which is now part of Italy.

[Boogieman]

Even funnier than that, Switzerland still has a navy to this day. It only operates on lakes, but still, it’s a navy!

[cherry]

we've been to that lodge for dinner I think on our honeymoon or the year after....I had Hungarian Ghoulash....

nice success story for the family....God bless them.

[one guy in new jersey]

WWI submarine...unbelievable...over 100 years ago...the Clank Clank Clank noise as this guy walked by must have been deafening...

[Penelope Dreadful]

Wasn’t it von Trapp who sank the Lusitania??? Or was it the Titanic. Some big British ship. Anyway my BFF just handed me an Irish poem about this:

Head Games??? (Or an Idle Vice. . .???”
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm

There once was a skipper named Trapp!
A typical Germanic chap!
When he went “Number One”,
He would roar, “Das wast fun!”
And click heels when he finished a crap!

[nickcarraway]

A German U-boat sank the Lusitania. I have no idea the nationality of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Maybe it was Somali.

[Fiji Hill]

Seemann, Deine Heimat Ist Das Meer (Sailor, your home is the ocean)--a smash-hit ballad about a sailor by Lolita Ditta, who hails from Austria, a country with no seacoast.

[Pearls Before Swine]

How does Austria have a navy?

It dooesnt, now. Austria Hungary, as it existed when Count Von Trapp would have served, was much larger and reached to water.

[NorthMountain]

The Austro-Hungarina Empire was a log bigger than present-day (or even 1939) Austria:

The Empire was broken up after its defeat in WW-I

CAPT Georg von Trapp was a hero of the empire, and a very successful submarine commander. The fact that he was on "the other side" should take nothing from our admiration of the man. The movie and stage-play "The Sound of Music" makes passing reference to his naval service, but definitely centers on Hitler's interest in having him come out of retirement and join the Kriegsmarine. Von Trapp was an Austrian patriot ... and therefore absolutely not a NAZI.

To the Last Salute is well worth the read, if you really want to know something about the Austrian Navy.

[Tallguy]

The Titanic’s sistership “Britannic” sank after striking a mine laid by a submarine in the Med. Maybe that’s what you’re thinking of?

[dangus]

One of my favorite musicians, perhaps my favorite, is David Gilmour, famous as the guitarist of Pink Floyd and the only sane one of three singer-songwriters the band has had. He has a whole litter of kids, some of whom share his passion for music. During the coronavirus lockdown, he released a series of videos, under the title, “The Von Trapped Family Singers.”

(Richard Wright, the keyboardist, also wrote or co-wrote several songs for Pink Floyd, such as “Us and Them,” “Great Gig in the Sky” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, but never was lead singer. The ones I refer to as crazy are Syd Barrett and Roger Waters.)

[dangus]

Frankly, I think we took the wrong side in that war. (Or better yet, we should’ve just butted out.)

[alternatives?]

Looking at that map, Poland and Ukraine have been chopped up several times.

[Jacquerie]

I was 11 years old in 1965.

I’ll never forget that wholesome and beautiful movie.