Masoch - Blog Posts
„Gott hat ihn gestraft und hat ihn in eines Weibes Hände gegeben“, wiederholte ich für mich. Nun, was soll ich etwa anstellen, damit er mich straft?
Happy birthday to my favourite dead person ever. Leopold, you taught me how to fully accept and appreciate the subjectivity of the human experience, and for that you and your work will always be dear to me. As long as I'm alive you will always be loved and remembered. Česť tvojej pamiatke.
RPF is never okay. Unless Masoch does it.
"Are they mad or wise?” I asked myself. I don't know, but if they are madmen, at least their madness is much more beautiful, more sublime, more touching than our sad wisdom.
The Fool of Firleiouwka by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Terorrism from the Sacher-Masoch fandom? More likely than one would think
still sad that I can't listen to the entirety of "Kassya" by Delibes. like no one thought to keep the 2018 recording? what drugs were they on?!?!?!?
Rip Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, you would've loved Kim Yo-Jong
die Liebe des Platos is what transmasc4transmasc feels like
If you see me make another meme or something this month tell me to fuck off and do my schoolwork
Rip Sacher-Masoch, you would've loved RuPaul's Drag Race
A guy lived out his bdsm fantasies 150 years ago and now I have to live
how to tell my parents my dream job is studying Sacher-Masoch? no borax, no glue.
Masoch 1980 (movie)
here it is. It was on youtube for a few years, but I think it has been taken down this year. I had downloaded it because I am insane so I am now re-uploading it on vimeo at this link https://vimeo.com/1012742172?share=copy
Unfortunately, there are no subtitles :(
I might be able to translate a good amount of it but I don't know how to make subtitles.
It's a pretty bad movie in my opinion. It follows Rümelin's autobiography very loosely and the actors are... not great. Costumes are shit, haircuts are debatable. And yeah, that's kind of it. I do not understand how this got to the Festival di Venezia I think it's a bit ehhh you know what I mean. I don't like it. I really don't. It's a good movie to watch while stoned out of your mind cause the actors have a very strange line delivery.
Here is also the soundtrack. Yes, I have this downloaded too. :)
Also, I literally just found out that the actress playing Aurora, Francesca De Sapio, was in the Padrino II.
Anyway, Sacher-Masoch fandom, watch party when???
On another note, if you want another Sacher-Masoch related media coming from Italy look no further than Crepax's Venus in Furs. This one is actually very nice, and you can also find it in English. Unfortunately, I can't find it any more online T_T. I had a link to it but now it's dead. If I can find a physical copy I'll scan it and upload it somewhere 'cause it really is a shame :(. Here are some of the pictures I can find online to give you an idea. It's very nice and it's a very short read.
And also the Intervista Impossibile by Oreste del Buono is fantastic. https://www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2020/09/Le-interviste-impossibili--Oreste-Del-Buono-incontra-Leopold-Von-Sacher-Masoch-f7dd930b-3d68-47cd-95ad-9c73bec45638.html
Just remembered this fucking thing exists again
Die Gottesmutter ending, oh my god. OH MY GOD! OH MY GAAAAAAAHHDD! (I loved it)
every time I read Venus in Furs again and I come to the part where they arrive in Florence I take it so personally. Leopold what do you mean "Suddenly the door is pulled open and the waiter with a theatrical Italian gesture calls [...]"???? Brother he's opening a door. Also "The people are less serious than we; perhaps, they think less, but they all look as though they were happy." please stop Leopold please I am begging you.
long ahh tangent under the cut
and then we could talk here for hours about how Sacher-Masoch fetishezes (pun intended) different cultures and people. He has done it in these examples with Italy but he does something comparable to it in many of his works about Jewish people. Yes, still he was an advocate against antisemism and we should not take that away from him but we need to address how his works do have some pretty blatant antisemitic tropes, here is a good essay about it (academia.edu link and JSTOR link idk which one you prefer). And then obviously the racism in "Venus in Furs" of having black enslaved women as almost "accessories" to the fantasy and the remarks that are written about them which mix racism and misogyny.
sorry rant over y'all can go on with your lives
Masoch took the phrase "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" a bit too literally
Sacher-Masoch's last words before death were: "Aimez moi" (love me).
If I could go back in time I would give Sacher-Masoch all my savings so that instead of that blurry cheap photo with Fanny he could have an oil painting made instead. I think such a painting would be so iconic.
fresh memes just taken out of the oven (PicsArt)
Can I complain about something? The Masoch café in Lviv and it's stupid statue makes me so mad. It is the sensationalization and dehumanization of his person materialised into a physical object. They are so thirsty for tourist money they made a statue of a dead person where you can feel it's genitals. He would have fucking HATED this, why are they so selfish. Imagine if they did this with any other person, I don't think that would be recieved quite well. He is not a person in the eyes of society, just a freak show to gawk at. Before I discovered Masoch there was still this false hope in me that believed in humanity but learning stuff about him was the final nail in the coffin for it. How he was trying to better this world but society who on one hand judged him for his fetish also didn't want to hear about ANYTHING else. How he naively believed that hatred comes from a lack of education, how he supported rural education and worked against antisemitism and all that stuff and nobody gave a f. He probably couldn't even have imagined the atrocities that happened only a few decades after his death. What he could not prevent despite his efforts. Because people are by nature rotten. I witness the future he didn't live to see and think, what unimaginable horrors are in the future from now? Humanity cannot be saved if it doesn't want to save itself. All I feel is disgust and misanthropy.
please guys stream Kassya prelude and Kassya trepak by Leo Delibes cause I need some orchestra to perform the whole opera and put it online.
context: it's based on a short story by Sacher-Masoch. Delibes died before the opera could be arranged and it was arranged by someone else (I don't remember who rn) so it technically could be performed. There was also an exhibition that was recorded for an article for Le Figaro but that's it and I can't even download that for some reason.
Heart disease!🥰
I still have no idea what Masoch died of
