Charlotte Miedke, née Pfister (1781 in Mannheim – 27 October or 22 October 1806), also Miedtke,[1] was a German singer and stage actress.
Life
editAt the age of 15, on 11 December 1796, she was already engaged as a soubrette in Mannheim.[2] Further stations of her career were from 1798 to 1801: Theatre Nuremberg (subject: soubrette and naive roles), 1802: Aachen (summer 1802), 1802: Düsseldorf (Oct./Nov. 1802) and 1802 to 1805: Nuremberg (as first female singer).[3][4] In 1805, she came to the court theatre in Stuttgart, where she worked as an actress.[5]
She had been married to the actor Carl Miedke in his first marriage since 1801/02.[5] The marriage produced 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 Kapellmeister Karl August Krebs (1804-1880).
After a scarlet fever infection, Miedke died, only 25 years old, on 22 October 1806 in Stuttgart-Bopser.
References
edit- ^ The spelling "Miedke" can be found in the following sources of information: WBIS Online; Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Directory for Theatre, Dance and Music. 2nd edition. Berlin 1997 (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag); http://www.weber-gesamtausgabe.de/de/A009041 - see http://d-nb.info/gnd/1069219452. The spelling "Miedtke" is found in Wilhelm Kosch (ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Vol. II: Hurka–Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (De Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5, p. 1469.
- ^ Wilhelm Kosch (ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Supplementary volume, part 4: M-Pa. Berlin 2015 (De Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-11-036175-9, p. 138.
- ^ Miedke, Charlotte on WeberGA-Person
- ^ Miedke Carl on Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe
- ^ a b Wilhelm Kosch (ed.): Deutsches Theaterlexikon. Vol II: Hurka–Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (De Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5, p. 1469.
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