Editing Georg von Trapp (section)

==Portrayals==
Trapp has been portrayed in various adaptations of his family's life such as ''[[The Sound of Music]],'' both the 1965 [[The Sound of Music (film)|film]] (played by [[Christopher Plummer]]) and the Broadway musical, as well as two German films, ''[[The Trapp Family]]'' (1956) and ''[[The Trapp Family in America]]'' (1958).<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie|last=Hirsch|first=Julia Antopol|publisher=Contemporary Books|year=1993|location=Lincolnwood, Illinois|pages=6}}</ref> However, these adaptations often altered the portrayal of the Captain. In real life and in the memoir ''The Story of the Trapp Family Singers'', written by his second wife Maria Augusta Trapp, the Captain has been described as being a warm and loving father who was always around.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/06/vontrapp199806|title=The Sound of Money|last=Andrews|first=Suzanna|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=2017-12-01|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31658799|title=The truth about the Sound of Music family|last=Hidalgo|first=Louise|date=2015-03-01|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-12-01|language=en-GB}}</ref> However, the Captain was portrayed in a more negative light in many adaptations. For instance, in the 1965 film, Georg von Trapp was portrayed as a disciplinary man who always went away and did not care for his children or their feelings at the beginning of the film.<ref>Wise, Robert. ''The Sound of Music''. Twentieth Century Fox, 1965.</ref> BBC Radio presented a different account of the family in October, 2009, in a play by Annie Caulfield called ''The Von Trapps and Me'', focused on Princess Yvonne, "the woman Captain Von Trapp jilted in order to marry Maria."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mz3pq.|title= The "princess" was identified by a London newspaper as Baroness Elsa Schräder.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3287089/Now-for-the-story-of-the-Baroness-from-The-Sound-of-Music.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3287089/Now-for-the-story-of-the-Baroness-from-The-Sound-of-Music.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Now for the story of the Baroness from The Sound of Music |author=Tim Walker |editor=Richard Eden |date=30 October 2008 |website=Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>