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Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
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politics · Habsburg consort from 1854 to 1898 · monarch · courtier · also Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria Elisabetta Amelia Eugenia, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria Elisabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria Elizabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I Elisabeth, Empress Sisi
Born 24 December 1837 · Died 10 September 1898 · Q150782
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2026· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
A German miniseries Sisi , aired on RTL+; Elisabeth was portrayed by Dominique Devenport
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2018· 1 entry
After airing two seasons totalling 56 episodes (26 minutes each, with 52 shorter 11–minute episodes slated for its 3D third season) it sold its second season to Jeem TV, after already having ported it to TV Azteca in 201
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2015· 2 entries
Journalist Jennifer Bowers Bahney wrote the non-fiction narrative of the theft of the Koechert diamond and pearl jewel titled Stealing Sisi's Star: How a Master Thief Nearly Got Away with Austria's Most Famous Jewel
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An Italian cartoon series Sissi, La Giovane Imperatrice began broadcasting on Mondo TV
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2014· 1 entry
To coincide with the presentation of the Pre-Fall 2015 "Metier d'arts" collection by luxury fashion house Chanel, shown in Leopoldskron Palace, creative director Karl Lagerfeld directed a short film featuring Cara Delevi
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2012· 1 entry
Biopic about Ludwig II of Bavaria titled Ludwig II, where she was played by Hannah Herzsprung
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2009· 1 entry
Sisi, a two-part mini-series, premiered on European television, produced by a German, Austrian and Italian partnership, starring Cristiana Capotondi as Elisabeth and David Rott as Franz Joseph
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2007· 3 entries
German comedian and director Michael Herbig released an animated parody film based on Elisabeth under the title Lissi und der wilde Kaiser
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And eventually returned to Austria
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The films were released as The Sissi Collection with English subtitles
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1998· 2 entries
On the 100th anniversary of the assassination
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Gerald Blanchard stole the Köechert Diamond Pearl known as the Sisi Star, a 10-pointed star of diamonds fanning out around one enormous pearl from an exhibit at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna commemorating the 100th ann
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1993· 1 entry
French ballerina Sylvie Guillem appeared in a piece entitled, Sissi, l'impératice anarchiste (Sissi, Anarchist Empress), choreographed by Maurice Béjart to Strauss's Emperor Waltz
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1992· 1 entry
The musical Elisabeth premièred at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna
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1988· 1 entry
Historian Brigitte Hamann revived interest in Elisabeth with her book, The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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1943· 1 entry
Jean Cocteau wrote a play about an imagined meeting between Elisabeth and her assassin, L'Aigle à deux têtes ("The Double-headed Eagle")
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1936· 1 entry
Columbia Pictures released The King Steps Out, a film version of the operetta Sissi, directed by Josef von Sternberg
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1934· 1 entry
Patrick Leigh Fermor notes that Elisabeth's picture was "framed on desks and tables and grand pianos", and that her love for Hungary and the Hungarians "was returned with interest and still declared, thirty-six years aft
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1932· 1 entry
The comic operetta Sissi premiered in Vienna
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1928· 1 entry
German silent film The Fate of the House of Habsburg Elisabeth was portrayed by Erna Morena
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1903· 1 entry
By Emperor Franz Joseph in memory of Elisabeth
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1898· 4 entries
Died 1898-09-10.
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Elisabeth was fatally stabbed in the heart by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni
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Despite warnings of possible assassination attempts, the 60-year-old Elisabeth traveled incognito to Geneva, Switzerland
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“Opis: dowiedziawszy się o zabójstwie Elżbiety.”
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1894· 1 entry
By the church dignitaries and later named "Elisabeth Fountain"
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1890· 1 entry
Had the palace Achilleion, named after the Greek hero Achilles, built on the Greek island of Corfu
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1889· 2 entries
Elisabeth's life was shattered by the death of her only son Rudolf, who was found dead together with his young lover Baroness Mary Vetsera, in what was suspected to be a murder–suicide on Rudolf's part
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Was a blow from which Elisabeth never fully recovered
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1882· 1 entry
March to see her youngest sister Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria
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1881· 1 entry
Purchased an English country house and had a spiral staircase built from her sitting room into the kitchen, so that she could reach it in private
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1878· 1 entry
The Empress astonished her travelling companions when she unexpectedly visited a restaurant incognito, where she drank champagne, ate a broiled chicken and an Italian salad, and finished with a "considerable quantity of
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1875· 1 entry
To Fecamp in Normandy accompanied by her daughter Marie Valerie and a court of 70 people
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1871· 1 entry
When the Emperor asked her what she would like as a gift for her Saint's Day, she listed a young tiger and a medallion, but: "
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1862· 1 entry
Had not seen Vienna for about a year when her family physician, Fischer of Munich, examined her and observed serious anemia and signs of dropsy
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1861· 1 entry
“s surrender, and after completing his entry, shot himself in the head. Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner. Who: Edward H. Rulloff, a convicted serial killer and last person to be executed by hanging in the State of New York. I feel like one of my engines is going out or something. Who: Richard Russell Note: Russell had stolen a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 from Seattle-Tacoma airport and taken it for a joyride. This was Russell”
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1857· 1 entry
Elisabeth visited Hungary for the first time with her husband and two daughters, and it left a deep and lasting impression upon her, which many historians attribute to the fact that in Hungary, she found a welcome respit
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1854· 1 entry
Career landmark: Grand Mistress of the Order the Starry Cross (1854–1898).
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1853· 1 entry
Archduchess Sophie, the domineering mother of 23-year-old Emperor Franz Joseph I, preferring a niece to a stranger for her daughter-in-law, arranged a meeting between her son and her sister Princess Ludovika's eldest dau
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1837· 1 entry
Born 1837-12-24.
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