Sophie Antonie Luise Schrder (ne Brger) (February 23, 1781 - February
25, 1868), was a German actress.She was born at Paderborn, the
daughter of an actor, Gottfried Brger. She made her first appearance
in opera at St Petersburg, in 1793. On Kotzebue's recommendation she
was engaged for the Vienna Court theatre in 1798, and here and in
Munich and Hamburg she won great successes in tragic roles like Marie
Stuart, Phdre, Merope, Lady Macbeth, and Isabella in The Bride of
Messina, which gave her the reputation of being "the German
Siddons."She retired in 1840 and lived in Augsburg and Munich until
her death in 1868. She had married, in 1795, an actor, Stollmers
(properly Smets), from whom she separated in 1799. In 1804 she married
the tenor Friedrich Schrder, and on his death in 1825, an actor,
Wilhelm Kunst. Schrder's eldest daughter was the opera singer,
Wilhelmine Schrder-Devrient.
25, 1868), was a German actress.She was born at Paderborn, the
daughter of an actor, Gottfried Brger. She made her first appearance
in opera at St Petersburg, in 1793. On Kotzebue's recommendation she
was engaged for the Vienna Court theatre in 1798, and here and in
Munich and Hamburg she won great successes in tragic roles like Marie
Stuart, Phdre, Merope, Lady Macbeth, and Isabella in The Bride of
Messina, which gave her the reputation of being "the German
Siddons."She retired in 1840 and lived in Augsburg and Munich until
her death in 1868. She had married, in 1795, an actor, Stollmers
(properly Smets), from whom she separated in 1799. In 1804 she married
the tenor Friedrich Schrder, and on his death in 1825, an actor,
Wilhelm Kunst. Schrder's eldest daughter was the opera singer,
Wilhelmine Schrder-Devrient.
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