Friederike Margarethe Vohs, née Friederike Margarethe Porth (1777 â€"
10 June 1860) was a German actress and operatic soprano.Born in
Halberstadt, Porth came with her parents to the theater in Weimar in
1793 where she married the actor Heinrich Vohs on 29 June 1793. With
him she had five children.Vohs was the first actress to impersonate
the title role in Schiller's drama Maria Stuart in the world premiere
on 14 June 1800 at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle
Weimar. She was also the first Thekla in Schiller's Wallenstein in Bad
Lauchstädt. Further roles she created were Kreusa in Ion by August
Wilhelm Schlegel in 1801, Turandot in the eponymous drama by Schiller
as well as Iphigenie in Goethe's drama Iphigenia in Tauris, namely in
the new production of 1802. Thanks to her singing talent she also
found recognition in opera roles, but went with her husband to
Stuttgart in 1802. As his widow she became the mother of an
illegitimate daughter of the Prince Paul of Württemberg in 1805.She
became a member of the Vienna Hoftheater in 1808, was engaged in
Frankfurt from 1805 to 1817 and at the Dresdner Hoftheater from 1818
to 1839. In 1818 she married in second marriage the Dresden court
actor Friedrich August Werdy (1770â€"1847).
10 June 1860) was a German actress and operatic soprano.Born in
Halberstadt, Porth came with her parents to the theater in Weimar in
1793 where she married the actor Heinrich Vohs on 29 June 1793. With
him she had five children.Vohs was the first actress to impersonate
the title role in Schiller's drama Maria Stuart in the world premiere
on 14 June 1800 at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle
Weimar. She was also the first Thekla in Schiller's Wallenstein in Bad
Lauchstädt. Further roles she created were Kreusa in Ion by August
Wilhelm Schlegel in 1801, Turandot in the eponymous drama by Schiller
as well as Iphigenie in Goethe's drama Iphigenia in Tauris, namely in
the new production of 1802. Thanks to her singing talent she also
found recognition in opera roles, but went with her husband to
Stuttgart in 1802. As his widow she became the mother of an
illegitimate daughter of the Prince Paul of Württemberg in 1805.She
became a member of the Vienna Hoftheater in 1808, was engaged in
Frankfurt from 1805 to 1817 and at the Dresdner Hoftheater from 1818
to 1839. In 1818 she married in second marriage the Dresden court
actor Friedrich August Werdy (1770â€"1847).
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