Friederike Vohs

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Friederike Vohs, 1799

Friederike Margarethe Vohs , b. Friederike Margarethe Porth , married Friederike Margarethe Werdy (born August 22, 1776 in Halberstadt , † June 10, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German actress and opera singer (soprano).

Life

Friederike Porth came to the theater in Weimar with her parents in 1793 , where she married the actor Heinrich Vohs on June 29, 1793 . She had five children with him.

Friederike Vohs was the first actress to play the title role in Schiller's drama Maria Stuart in the world premiere on June 14, 1800 in the Weimar Court Theater . It was also the first Thekla in Schiller's Wallenstein in Lauchstädt . Other roles she created were Creusa in Ion by August Wilhelm Schlegel in 1801 , Turandot in Schiller's drama of the same name, and Iphigenie in Goethe's drama Iphigenie auf Tauris , in the new production of 1802. Thanks to her talent as a singer, she also found recognition in operatic roles , but went to Stuttgart with her husband as early as 1802 . As his widow, in 1805 she became the mother of an illegitimate daughter of Prince Paul von Württemberg .

In 1808 she became a member of the Vienna Court Theater, was engaged in Frankfurt am Main from 1805 to 1817 and at the Dresden Court Theater from 1818 to 1839 . In 1818 she married the Dresden court actor Friedrich August Werdy (1770–1847).

A portrait previously held for Goethe's wife Christiane Vulpius , a chalk drawing by Friedrich Bury from 1800, shows Friederike Vohs.

literature

  • Ulrike Müller-Harang, The portrait of Friederike Voss [sic] and its reinterpretation as Christiane Vulpius. Examined using the sources , 2007 ( PDF file ).
  • Birgit Himmelseher, Friederike Margarete Porth, ad. Vohs, mate. Keer, married Werdy (1776–1860), in: Stefanie Freyer, Katrin Horn and Nicole Grochowina (eds.), FrauenGestalten Weimar-Jena around 1800. A biobibliographic lexicon (= Weimar-Jena event. Culture around 1800 , Volume 22). Winter, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 260-263.

Web links

Commons : Friederike Vohs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The swapped faces - Christiane von Goethe and Friedrike Vohs
personal data
SURNAME Vohs, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vohs, Friederike Margarethe (full name); Porth, Friederike Margarethe (name at birth); Werdy, Friederike Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1860
Place of death Frankfurt am Main