Christiane Luise Amalie Becker-Neumann (15 December 1778 – 22 September 1797) was a German actress.

Life

She was born in Crossen-an-der-Oder, in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland), daughter of a theatrical manager and dramatic poet, Johann Christian Neumann. She made her first stage appearance in 1787 at Weimar. Here she received some training from Goethe and from

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, the singer, and her beauty and charm made her the favourite both of court and public. She married actor

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in 1793. Her last part was that of Euphrosyne in the opera ''Das Petermännchen'', and it is under this name that Goethe immortalized her in a poem which first appeared in

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's ''Musen Almanach'' of 1799. She died of tuberculosis in 1797. The ''Euphrosyne-Denkmal'' (''Euphrosyne Memorial''), erected in Rosenberg (now

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) and moved to Weimar in 1950, was built in her honour.

References

Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Becker, Christiane 1778 births 1797 deaths People from Krosno Odrzańskie Actors from Brandenburg German stage actresses 18th-century German actresses 18th-century German people 18th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in Germany