Talk:Freischütz

message: The title of the entry needs the umlaut. The word is "Freischütz", of course. I don't know how to make that change. Abuelo jack (talk) 23:44, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening heading

message: Perhaps it would be better to move the article to an English title, like Warlock Marksman or sth, because such tales are also known from Slavic mythology. --Eleassar my talk 21:21, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: English title

message: Why is there a "See Also" pointing to a character from the comic book Preacher with absolutely no context and no explanation given in the information embedded in the link? Will remove if there is no reason written out, or none given.Muddbrixx (talk) 19:41, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I decided to be bold and just removed it. I simply can't see the relation between the two. Don Durandal (talk) 10:48, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Saints of Killers?

message: What is the original title of "The Affianced Spectre"? I've never heard of any such story by Hoffmann. In particular the mentioned year 1847 doesn't make sense - at that time Hoffmann was dead for 25 years.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.12.1.13 (talk) 19:41, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The ref given seems to be a reprint of this book review in The Athenaeum of Contes Nocturnes de Hoffmann (1846) translated by Jean-Baptiste Pitois (as P. Christian). Contes Nocturnes could ostensibly be a translation of Hoffmann's Nachtstücke (though I haven't checked whether any of the other stories there correspond to Hoffmann stories or not), and "The Affianced Spectre" mentioned in the Athenaeum review is "Le Spectre Fiancé". The first part seems like a translation of Apel's "Der Freischütz", but again I haven't read the whole thing through, to see if it differs from Apel's "Der Freischütz" in the way the book review describes, and if so whether this part is taken from another known story, or invented by Pitois. It's possible that Hoffmann copied Apel's story and added his own ending, but I can't find any evidence for that. Searching Google Books for "Spectre fiancé"  "Hoffmann" "Apel" "Freischütz" does show some French sources that seem to have uncritically assumed Pitois' translation was genuine, but none seem to mention the Hoffmann story it was apparently taken from. What makes it a bit more confusing is that there is an early French translation of a genuine Hoffmann story ("Das unheimliche Gast") also given the title "Le Spectre Fiancé". For now though, since the only sources are the Pitois translation, and its book review, I don't think these are reliable enough to claim that Hoffmann wrote this, so I'll remove it until we can find any sources that explain whether Pitois was right to attribute it to Hoffmann or not. --YodinT 19:55, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoffmann 

message: Unless there is a really intelligent objection, I am going to delete the gibberish in round brackets and quotation marks after the title. The first sentence explains what "Freischütz" means; the insertion of a nonexistent English compound formed of cognates of the German word parts adds no information. Less than no information, in the unfortunate case that the reader isn't aware that it's not a word. The fact that someone came up with a source for it to put in a footnote doesn't make it more meaningful -- it just indicates that the urge to toss cognates about is not limited to WP.Wegesrand (talk) 19:17, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Going to remove "freeshooter"