Charlotte Miedke, ''née'' Pfister (1781 in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

– 27 October or 22 October 1806), also Miedtke, was a German singer and stage actress.

Life

At the age of 15, on 11 December 1796, she was already engaged as a

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in Mannheim. 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).Miedke Carl
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'' In 1805, she came to the court theatre in Stuttgart, where she worked as an actress.Wilhelm Kosch (ed.): ''Deutsches Theaterlexikon.'' Vol II: ''Hurka–Pallenberg.'' Berlin 2011 (De Gruyter), , . She had been married to the actor

Carl Miedke Carl Gottfried Miedke, also Miedtke, (3 September 1773 – 4 January 1839), was a German actor, director and playwright. Life Miedke was born in Potsdam on 3 September 1773. His father was the ''Royal '' Gottfried Miedke at the court of Frederi ...

in his first marriage since 1801/02. 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 (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

Karl August Krebs Karl August Krebs (16 January 1804 as Karl August Miedke – 16 May 1880), also Carl, Miedtke, was a German pianist, composer, conductor and ''Kapellmeister''. Life Krebs was born in Nuremberg in 1804. His parents were the actor Carl Miedke an ...

(1804-1880). After a scarlet fever infection, Miedke died, only 25 years old, on 22 October 1806 in Stuttgart-Bopser.

References

Women singers from the Holy Roman Empire German stage actresses 1781 births 1806 deaths Artists from Mannheim 19th-century German women singers {{Germany-actor-stub