#Lucheni

[detournementsmineurs]

Une des dernières photographies de Sissi en compagnie de sa dame d'honneur Irma Sztaray devant le Grand Hôtel à Territet, peu de temps avant son assassinat par Luigi Lucheni à Genève, 1898.

[antynous]

I love Elisabeth I wish Austria was real

[fitzrove]

Ethan Freeman, Hass and the original production of Elisabeth

Recently, @behindthemirrorofmusic shared an interview clip from her radio show with me (thank you so much!). In it, Ethan Freeman (original Lucheni) talks about, among other things, Hass and the criticism the number has gotten over the years.

Dannii: Several Jewish fans of the show have said it's a rather triggering song and makes them feel uncomfortable - making them feel that Lucheni is turning against them. Did you think about that or does this raise any feelings in you? Ethan: Ah, no. Lucheni is a cynic, but he certainly did not ally himself with the fascistic transition that happens in the course of that number, as it begins to look into the future and towards the growing demonization of Jews in the Elisabethan world moving towards the period of the Nazis. Again, as Che is with the Peronistic fascism [in Evita], Lucheni looks at it with bitter cynicism. I can see people being uncomfortable, but the scene and the number were designed to make everybody uncomfortable [laughs]. And the Austrian audience, who at the time had to - and perhaps to a bigger extent even now still has to - deal with its fascist and antisemitic past... That number was always met with a kind of deathly, breathless silence. Sometimes applause at the end, but first it was always this reaction of "[gasp] This was us!". And that's what the number was there for. Obviously, Harry Kupfer, the director, was a tremendous antifascist, and so he directed the number to hit very hard. I remember we performed the show [one night] and Jörg Haider, the leader of the ultra-right party in Austria at the time was in the audience of the show - and he walked out after the number! I knew I had done my job when I heard he had walked out. Because the number points a finger at exactly the kind of ideology he seemed to purvey. So... As a Jewish person myself, I want to show the world its ugly reflection. If it made me uncomfortable in any sense, watching the Jewish character getting beaten up in that scene, it's because it's supposed to make people feel - "oh, this is not good". I think good theatre is for people with strong stomachs, and if people are extremely sensitive to that sort of thing, then they have to figure out how to deal with it. I don't think for any reason that that [scene] should not be in the show. Because it was a reflection of the history of that time - but not only that time, obviously.

(Interview by Dannii Cohen, September 10, 2023. Emphasis mine. Transcribed from the first episode of the new series of Behind the Mirror of Music. Source)

[jjick00]

Lucheni and Der Tod

It's not fan art based on a specific actor, but I drew it with a little reference to Olegg DerTod in Stuttgart and Carsten lucheni in Stuttgart ver.

[happilyhadesbound]

[aspiringxfires]

Tumblr is so funny because I'll see a post that talks about "Luigi" and now I have to determine which italian dead guy it's about

[detournementsmineurs]

"Statue de Sissi" bronze de Philipp Jackson (1998) érigé quant du Mont-Blanc à l'endroit de son assassinat par Luigi Lucheni (1898) sur le quai à Geneve, novembre 2023.

[vraggoee]

ignore lazy template editing

[fitzrove]

I love elisabeth 1992 so much and 90% of the reason is because i feel like harry kupfer said "once you go up on that stage remember... being straight is NOT ALLOWED". I saw something for the first time just now and like um yeah...

[waitwtfismylife]

happy birthday to my guy luigi lucheni

[mityenka]

tagged by @freddiegoesmetal to make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters & see which character is everyone's favourite 🍈🕊️⭐️

[vixonimus]

todcheni is so butch for futch but the world isn't ready for that conversation

[jjick00]

stuttgart cast Carsten Lucheni / olegg Der Tod

Yes… I like the two becoming slightly intertwined due to Luceni's one-sided desire . Carsten Lucheni is interesting because he seems to like death. and he looks like the craziest Luceni I've ever seen. (It’s a compliment)

stuttgart death in a meyerling dress. (rudolf is martin..)

By the way, what is the name of the couple Death and Sissi!? I saw the word 'elisadeath' and thought it was cute.

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[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

On this day; September 10th 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni in Geneva Switzerland.

On September 10th at 1:35 pm the Empress and Countess Irma Sztaray, her lady in waiting leave the hotel. All the other staff in service of Elisabeth has already left Geneva by train, and stubborn as she is, Elisabeth refused to take bodyguards with her.

[Anarchist Luigi Lucheni] approached the ladies when they walk by and acts as if he stumbles and falls against Elisabeth, stabbing her with a sharpened needle file. Elisabeths falls down, but is helped up again by a coach driver and she and the countess continue to walk to the gangway and board the ship. Elisabeth even talks to the countess, saying that Luigi perhaps tried to steal her watch. She nor any of the bystanders, realize that she is stabbed. Luigi did not miss, his file punctured the body of the empress for 8.5 cm, broke the fourth rib, pierced the lung and penetrated the heart fully. The fact that Elisabeth could get up and walk on is first of all due to the good shape Elisabeth is in. 

Empress Elisabeth faints for the first time when on board of the ship. She comes to again, probably because the new blood flow that reaches her brain because of her horizontal position as she is now laying down. She asks the countess what has happened, still no [idea] of her situation. Only after opening of the corset by the countess, causing the blood reserve to spread over the rest of the body, the empress faints for the second and last time.

Countess Sztaray than sees the small blood stain on Sisi’s breast and raises the alarm. The captain of the boat, Captain Roux, is made aware of the identity of the fainted lady and immediatley turns the boat around towards the landing stage in front of the Hotel Beau-Rivage. A stretcher is improvised from sails and peddles and six boatmen carry the empress back to her hotel room.

To check if the Empress is still alive Dr. Mayer makes a small incision in Sissi's arm, but there is no blood flow, and the Empress is pronounced dead at 2:20, September 10th, 1898. The priest that arrived together with the doctors is too late to grant her absolution.

Source: (x)

[yirafter]

[adridoesstuff]

The Accidental Death of an Assassin

"Who were your accomplices?

Death! Only Death!

And the motive, Lucheni?

Love...Love! Una grande amore!"

Prompted by @fitzrove