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4 unusual facts about Friedrich von der Trenck


Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert

Her most famous short story was "Baron de Trenck", which relates an adventure of the Prussian officer Friedrich von der Trenck, and was inspired by his widely-published autobiography.

Friedrich von der Trenck

In 1972 Fritz Umgelter directed a five-part TV series Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck, a German–Austrian–French–Italian co-production which was shown the following year on the public channel ZDF.

The coat of arms of the Trenck family depicts in red the head of a silver bull with golden tongue and golden horns.

In Saul Bellow's novel Humboldt's Gift the character Charlie Citrine has written a successful Broadway play and a movie about a character named Von Trenck.



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