Charlotte Miedke

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Charlotte Miedke (née Pfister ; * 1781 in Mannheim ; † October 27 or October 22, 1806 in Stuttgart ), also Miedtke , was a German singer and stage actress .

Life

At the age of 15, on December 11, 1796, she was hired as a soubrette in Mannheim. Further stations in her career were from 1798 to 1801: Theater Nürnberg (subject: soubrettes and naive roles), 1802: Aachen (summer 1802), 1802: Düsseldorf (Oct./Nov. 1802) and 1802 to 1805: Nuremberg (as first singer) . In 1805 she came to the Hoftheater Stuttgart, where she worked as an actress.

She was married to the actor Carl Miedke in his first marriage since 1801/02 . The marriage resulted in three children, all of whom became well-known artists: the singer Anna Fischer-Maraffa (1802–1866), the singer, actor and director Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke (1803–1842) and the pianist, composer, conductor and later Dresden court conductor Karl August Krebs (1804–1880).

After a scarlet fever infection, she died at the age of 25 on October 22nd, 1806 in Stuttgart-Bopser .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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/1069219452 . The spelling “Miedtke” can be found in Wilhelm Kosch (Hrsg.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Volume II: Hurka – Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (De Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5 , p. 1469.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon. Supplementary volume, part 4: M – Pa. Berlin 2015 (De Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-11-036175-9 , p. 138.
  3. ^ Charlotte Miedke in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe
  4. ^ Carl Miedke in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe
  5. ↑ a b Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Volume II: Hurka – Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (De Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5 , p. 1469.
personal data
SURNAME Miedke, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfister, Charlotte (maiden name); Miedtke, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1806 or October 27, 1806
Place of death Stuttgart