The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

A witty, imagined diary transports listeners into an alternate history where a scion of the Hohenzollern dynasty abandons palatial life for the cramped steerage of an immigrant ship bound for America. Narrated by the fictional Princess Frederica, the early pages capture her bewildered observations of once‑royal relatives reduced to laborers, their gaudy titles slipping beneath threadbare coats and battered trunks.

Through sharp, sardonic prose the story satirizes the pomp of European aristocracy, contrasting it with the gritty reality of nineteenth‑century migration. Listeners will hear the clash of haughty expectations and the raw, noisy deck life, feeling both the humor and the poignant humanity of characters forced to confront a world stripped of privilege. The opening act promises a blend of historical insight and dark comedy, inviting you to imagine how a once‑imperial family might survive, adapt, and perhaps even find unexpected dignity among the masses.