Carl Miedke

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Carl Gottfried Miedke (born September 3, 1773 in Potsdam , † January 4, 1839 in Stuttgart , also Miedtke ,) was a German actor, director and playwright.

biography

He was born on September 3, 1773 in Potsdam. His father was the royal kitchen clerk Gottfried Miedke at the court of Frederick the Great. His mother was Albertina Charlotta Kaebelizzen or Kaebelitz. He has been active on stage since the age of 18 and his first marriage to the actress and singer Charlotte Miedke , geb. Pfister (* 1781 in Mannheim; † October 22, 1806 in Stuttgart) married. He died in 1839. There were three children from this marriage:

  • Karl August Krebs (born January 16, 1804 in Nuremberg, † May 16, 1880 in Dresden), who after the early death of scarlet fever of his mother in 1806 after the couple moved to Stuttgart from the court singer Johann Baptist Krebs there with the consent of his father Child instead of adopted and as a result took the name of his foster father Cancer; he worked as a pianist, composer and most recently as court conductor in Dresden;
  • Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke (* between December 31, 1802 and January 31, 1803 in Nuremberg; † October 16, 1842 in Regensburg ), who worked as a singer (baritone or bass), actor and director in Stuttgart, Augsburg, Ulm a. a. After retiring from the theater, O. worked as a painter, gallery owner and writer in Regensburg;
  • Anna Fischer-Maraffa (1802–1866), who was also adopted after her mother's death. She performed as an opera singer across Europe under the names of her adoptive father, the opera singer Joseph Fischer , and that of her husband Maraffa.

In his second marriage he was married from March 3, 1810 to Wilhelmine Aschenbrenner (1791 – after 1834), who worked as an actress in Stuttgart, Leipzig, Darmstadt a. a. O. was active and was portrayed in 1834 by the painter Otto Stotz (1805–1873).

Professional background

Together with his first wife Charlotte, who u. a. also made guest appearances in Erlangen, he was engaged in 1798 with the Augsburg Fugger Society under Ferdinand Kindler in Nuremberg and from 1798 to 1801 at the Nuremberg Theater. In 1805 he moved with his wife from Nuremberg to the Hoftheater Stuttgart, where he a. a. In 1811 in Schiller's Don Carlos as Posa and on March 16, 1823 as Samiel in Freischütz. Guest appearances at the Würzburg Theater are documented for 1834.

Wilhelm Waiblinger , with whom he was friends, took declamation lessons from him, praised Miedke's acting skills and his high level of reading. However, Miedke's acquaintance with the Stuttgart court singer Krebs caused Waiblinger to move away from Miedke (according to the diary entry of September 18, 1822); further contacts are documented until 1826.

Miedke died in Stuttgart in 1837 as a retired court actor.

A selection of dramas by Carl Miedke

  • Manuel the wrong friend: A tragedy in five acts , Mannheim, Loeffler 1798
  • Adolph the Kühne Raugraf von Dassel, or: The Destruction of Northeim: A painting of the past in five acts (performance at the Bremen Theater on February 25, 1813)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.de/ : Potsdam, Evangelical Church, Garnisongemeinde Potsdam (StKr. Potsdam), film number: 72388
  2. ↑ The spelling “Miedke” can be found in the following information sources: WBIS Online; Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance and music. 2nd Edition. Berlin 1997 (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag); http://www.weber-habenausgabe.de/de/A009041 - see http://d-nb.info/gnd/117027049 . The spelling “Miedtke” can be found in numerous contemporary society gazettes as well as in Carl-Josef Burkart: The stage adaptations of Don Carlos . Bruchsal 1933, p. 20 and in: Anton Pichler: Chronik des Grossh. Court and National Theater in Mannheim: To celebrate its centenary on October 7, 1879 , Verlag J. Bensheimer, 1879, p. 242 .- s. (books.google.de)
  3. ↑ web.archive.org
  4. ^ Carl Miedke in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe
  5. ^ Wilhelm Friedrich Waiblinger: Diaries, 1821-1826: Text-critical and commented edition in two volumes. Edited by Hans Königer. Cotta 1993, p. 1454.
  6. ^ Friedrich Miedke in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
  7. ↑ Anna Fischer-Maraffa in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)Template: BMLO / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  8. ↑ artgebung
  9. ↑ Yearbook for Franconian State Research, ed. from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg a. a., Vol. 24-25, Degener 1964, p. 100.
  10. ^ Degener: Yearbook for Franconian State Research . Degener, 1964 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Burkart, Carl-Josef: The stage arrangements of Don Carlos. Bruchsal 1933 (inaugural dissertation), p. 20.
  12. ↑ Diaries, 1821–1826: Academic Years
  13. ^ Johann Georg Wenzel Dennerlein: History of the Würzburg Theater. Self-published by the author, 1853, p. 261 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  14. ^ Wilhelm Waiblinger: Complete letters, text criticism and commentary. Lebenschronik, Volume 2. Klett-Cotta, 1981, p. 755.
  15. ↑ kxp.k10plus.de
  16. ↑ brema.suub.uni-bremen.de
personal data
SURNAME Miedke, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miedke, Carl Gottfried M .; Miedtke, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1839
Place of death Stuttgart