Maria franziska von trapp biography
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Maria franziska von trapp biography
Maria Franziska von Trapp
Member of Trapp Family Singers
Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp (28 September 1914 – 18 February 2014) was the second-oldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp.[1][2] She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives inspired the musical and film The Sound of Music.
She was portrayed by Heather Menzies as the character "Louisa". She died at age 99, and was the last surviving sibling portrayed in the film.[2]
Biography
She was born on 28 September 1914 in Zell am See, Salzburg, then part of Austria-Hungary.[2]
Her siblings were Rupert von Trapp (1911–1992), Agathe von Trapp (1913–2010), Werner von Trapp (1915–2007), Hedwig von Trapp (1917–1972), Johanna von Trapp (1919–1994), and Martina von Trapp (1921–1951).
Along with her six siblings, father, and stepmother, Maria Augusta von Trapp, she was part of the Trapp Family Singers, who inspired the 1959