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Being myself a child of the GDR I cannot confirm, that - as statet under "Sanssouci in modern times" - the palace was used as a motif on the 5 DDM banknote in 1984. The last issue of that banknote was published in 1975 and showed a portrait of Thomas Muentzer (front) and a fleet of combine harvesters on a field (back). In fact, i was not able to find any proof of a german (post-WW2) banknote with a picture of that palace, nor was I able to find someone, who ever possessed such a note. So maybe you should delete that part...
greetings Kampfbrot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.193.233.199 ( talk) 14:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear contributors: In the excerpt quoted below, I've changed the translation of "sans souci" from "carefree" to "free of care", which fits the grammar of the sentence. Is this OK?
My other question concerns the use of "Hence", which is unclear to me.
Tony 14:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
"free of care" is clumsy, if not actually wrong, because one meaning of care is "caring for someone else, eg who's sick" and it sounds more like this use, whereas actually Frederick meant "[a place] without cares or worries". "Carefree" is probably better than "without a care", actually, which is what I just put in the article; never mind the sentence, it just fits better as a placename. I'll leave someone else to change it if they agree... Rd232 talk 22:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it would be worth mentioning in the article (or even if I'm typing this in the right place), but Frederick named the palace after the similarly named one in Haiti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-Souci_Palace. This, in turn, was named after the slave Sans-Souci, who was a major leader of the rebellion against both the French and ex-slaves like Christophe. Sans Souci refused to acknowledge Christophe's victory at his surrender (unlike the french's), so in response Christophe invited him to his home and killed Souci, later building the palace to secure this 'victory'. All of this is explained in Michel-Rolph Trouillot's book "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History". So, it is in fact irrelevent what Sans, Souci means exactly in regards to "Without a Care", because it refers to a man's name. [Iball, 16:31, 26th May 2007]
Today, the German Bundesgerichtshof ruled that images taken on Sanssouci's ground may only be legally distributed by consent with the foundation maintaining the property. So far, the decision seems to be available only in German, but the ruling means that you have to get written permission and pay a fee if you want to distribute the images. The guidelines for taking pictures of Sanssouci are available here, and it doesn't seem that the author of the images distributed on WP has sought proper permission. Note that this not really a copyright issue (this has long expired), but that your entrance to the property is governed by a contract that does not allow distribution of imagery. -- Hweimer ( talk) 18:40, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
This article is clearly not up to modern WP:FA standards; even a quick glance shows numerous unreferenced paragraphs. References are poorly formatted; there are MoS issues (improper use of bold text), and so on. Is there anyone interested in improving this before I slap {{ FAR}} on this relic? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:08, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
The Palace was used for meetings between the Allied Leaders in the immediate aftermath of the War- there should be some reference to that here I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.58.205 ( talk) 00:20, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Have been started for this article at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Sanssouci/archive1. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:13, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Why is the destruction of the Berliner Stadtschloss mentioned? 101.98.175.68 ( talk) 01:45, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
If you read the punctuation marks as words, then you have a punning French sentence: 'sans virgule souci point'. 'Virgule' means a rod or staff, 'point' means 'not at all'. Frederick the Great was famously celibate. So 'without a rod, no cares at all' suggests he was celebrating his own impotence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.197.46.63 ( talk) 19:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
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Being myself a child of the GDR I cannot confirm, that - as statet under "Sanssouci in modern times" - the palace was used as a motif on the 5 DDM banknote in 1984. The last issue of that banknote was published in 1975 and showed a portrait of Thomas Muentzer (front) and a fleet of combine harvesters on a field (back). In fact, i was not able to find any proof of a german (post-WW2) banknote with a picture of that palace, nor was I able to find someone, who ever possessed such a note. So maybe you should delete that part...
greetings Kampfbrot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.193.233.199 ( talk) 14:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear contributors: In the excerpt quoted below, I've changed the translation of "sans souci" from "carefree" to "free of care", which fits the grammar of the sentence. Is this OK?
My other question concerns the use of "Hence", which is unclear to me.
Tony 14:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
"free of care" is clumsy, if not actually wrong, because one meaning of care is "caring for someone else, eg who's sick" and it sounds more like this use, whereas actually Frederick meant "[a place] without cares or worries". "Carefree" is probably better than "without a care", actually, which is what I just put in the article; never mind the sentence, it just fits better as a placename. I'll leave someone else to change it if they agree... Rd232 talk 22:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if it would be worth mentioning in the article (or even if I'm typing this in the right place), but Frederick named the palace after the similarly named one in Haiti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-Souci_Palace. This, in turn, was named after the slave Sans-Souci, who was a major leader of the rebellion against both the French and ex-slaves like Christophe. Sans Souci refused to acknowledge Christophe's victory at his surrender (unlike the french's), so in response Christophe invited him to his home and killed Souci, later building the palace to secure this 'victory'. All of this is explained in Michel-Rolph Trouillot's book "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History". So, it is in fact irrelevent what Sans, Souci means exactly in regards to "Without a Care", because it refers to a man's name. [Iball, 16:31, 26th May 2007]
Today, the German Bundesgerichtshof ruled that images taken on Sanssouci's ground may only be legally distributed by consent with the foundation maintaining the property. So far, the decision seems to be available only in German, but the ruling means that you have to get written permission and pay a fee if you want to distribute the images. The guidelines for taking pictures of Sanssouci are available here, and it doesn't seem that the author of the images distributed on WP has sought proper permission. Note that this not really a copyright issue (this has long expired), but that your entrance to the property is governed by a contract that does not allow distribution of imagery. -- Hweimer ( talk) 18:40, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
This article is clearly not up to modern WP:FA standards; even a quick glance shows numerous unreferenced paragraphs. References are poorly formatted; there are MoS issues (improper use of bold text), and so on. Is there anyone interested in improving this before I slap {{ FAR}} on this relic? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:08, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
The Palace was used for meetings between the Allied Leaders in the immediate aftermath of the War- there should be some reference to that here I think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.58.205 ( talk) 00:20, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Have been started for this article at Wikipedia:Featured article review/Sanssouci/archive1. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:13, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Why is the destruction of the Berliner Stadtschloss mentioned? 101.98.175.68 ( talk) 01:45, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
If you read the punctuation marks as words, then you have a punning French sentence: 'sans virgule souci point'. 'Virgule' means a rod or staff, 'point' means 'not at all'. Frederick the Great was famously celibate. So 'without a rod, no cares at all' suggests he was celebrating his own impotence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.197.46.63 ( talk) 19:19, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
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