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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:50:59 -0500, "Mary" <notvalid@notin.com> wrote:

>Yes, I knew the Engelhart story was made up, but what I was asking was in 
>Singer's Hall in Ludwig's castle, are the paintings in Singer's Hall the 
>paintings that hang in Singer's Hall? 

IIRC none of them were. All were changed. OK, it has been a while, 
I must research the matter. But IIRC all of them were movie magic.

>Ubergrau the lawyer was obviously German speaking.  I was referring to the 
>door man/receptionist at the Hunt club. I think he was German speaking 
> Don't remember about Xavier, IIRC his accent was of native German.

Xavier (or Xaver, how he is referred to in the wikipedia list I 
posted) *was* the Hunting Club receptionist :) 

>too.Most of the actors in GK2 appeared to be German with German accents, 
>except for Gabriel (Dean Erickson), who was American actor.

Not so many of them :) However few of them seemed to be Americans 
who were still native German speakers, for example the police 
detective. Wolf Muser and Andrea Martin were only ones I remembered
from e.g. Derrick and similar cop shows.

>>OTOH some secondary characters were just as obviously American,
>I thought the museum receptionists and police station sounded German.

Nope. Not by far  :)
Telltale mark is always the pronunciation of ch-sound. In German you 
make almost a sighing sound, like an overcooked H, whereas
Americans prononunce it K. Like BacH -> becomes BaK or SchumacHer
becomes SchumaKer. Never fails to tell an American from it :)

>>>I found Ludwig's castle the most interesting looking through the rooms, 
>>>etc.

Yes and all Grace's comments of the panels/furniture etc. are from
real life also. 

>> Neuschwanstein Castle produced a walk-thru DVD about 10 years ago.
>The DVD would have been interesting. Was it in English? I don't go on 

Supposedly it had -, I would imagine they would have made different 
language versions. But as I said, I didn't get it at the time and now
it is  history, blaah :(