Charlotte Miedke

Charlotte Miedke, née Pfister, 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 soubrette in Mannheim. Further stations of her career were from 1798 to 1801: Theatre Nuremberg, 1802: Aachen, 1802: Düsseldorf and 1802 to 1805: Nuremberg. In 1805, she came to the court theatre in Stuttgart, where she worked as an actress.
She had been married to the actor Carl Miedke in his first marriage since 1801/02. The marriage produced three children, all of whom became well-known artists: the singer Anna Fischer-Maraffa, the singer, actor and director Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke and the pianist, composer, conductor and later Dresden Court Kapellmeister Karl August Krebs.
After a scarlet fever infection, Miedke died, only 25 years old, on 22 October 1806 in Stuttgart-Bopser.