Restoration workers at the museum recently managed to reveal the inscription on her marble gravestone. Following an accident, she went blind and died in a convent at the age of 71. There was no magical kiss, and no handsome prince to rescue her. Sadly Maria Sophia’s life did not end very well. So in this case I think there is a historic basis, but there are also fictional elements,” Kempkens said. Today when you make a film about a historic person there is also fiction in it. “There are indications - though we cannot prove it for sure - that Sophia was the model for Snow White. The museum’s director, Holger Kempkens, told the BBC the Brothers Grimm lived just 50km from Lohr am Main and were known to make literature out of the stories they heard from local people.
Picture: Press Offive Archishopric Bamberg/Dominik Schreiner The Mirror is shaped like a kaleidoscope, which turns a simple image into. The long-lost gravestone of Baroness Sophia Maria von Erthal. The Snow White Magic Mirror project is inspirited by the Snow White fairy tale. However, it’s been said that only “small statured men” were able to work at the nearby mines of Bieber.Īccording to Bartels, there were other similarities between Maria Sophia’s life and the story of Snow White. Whether there were any dwarfs in Maria Sophia’s life isn’t really known. “Presumably the hard reality of life for Maria Sophia under this woman was recast as a fairy story by the Brothers Grimm,” Dr Bartels said. While not strictly required, If you haven’t seen our Halloween instructable which talks about the overall display, see it here. While not strictly Halloween, Disney villains fit nicely with the overall theme and this gave us some new ground to work in. There’s no evidence that there was a huntsman trying to kill her for her organs to feed to the Queen.īut, according to Dr Bartels, Maria Sophia’s life would not have been terribly easy. The Magic Mirror from Snow White is an all-time classic and has been on the list for years. The Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm) wrote Snow White in 1812 but the story didn’t reach international audiences until Disney’s groundbreaking animated film in 1937.Īs far as we know, Maria Sophia’s life under the gaze of her domineering stepmother was nothing quite like the nightmare of the fairytale. The mirror’s truth-bomb sparked rage in the Queen who was determined to kill her beautiful stepdaughter so she could, once again, lay claim to the title “the fairest of them all”. But Snow White is a thousand times more beautiful than you.”
When the evil Queen gazed into the glass and asked, “Who is the fairest in the land?” the mirror would always reply, “My Queen, you are the fairest in the land.”īut, when Snow White turned seven and became a great beauty, the mirror tells the Queen, “You are the fairest here so true.
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