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SOPHIE SCHRODER (1781-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOPHIE

SCHRODER (1781-1868)  , German actress, was born at Paderborn on the 23rd of
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February 1781, the daughter of an actor, Gottfried Burger . She made her first appearance in opera at St
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Petersburg, in 1793 . On Kotzebue's recommendation she was engaged for the Vienna Court theatre in 1798, and here and in Munich and
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Hamburg she won
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great successes in tragic roles like
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Marie Stuart, Phedre,
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Merope, Lady
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Macbeth, and Isabella in Tke Bride of
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Messina, which gave her the reputation of being " the German Siddons." She retired in 184o and lived in Augsburg and Munich until her
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death on the 25th of February 1868 . She had married, in 1795, an actor, Stollmers (properly Smets), from whom she separated in 1799 . In 1804 she married the tenor Friedrich Schroder, and on his death in 1825, an actor, Kunst . Mme Schroder's eldest daughter was the opera singer, Wilhelmine
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Devrient-Schroder (q.v.) . See Ph . Schmidt, Sophie Schroder (Vienna, 1870) ; also Das Lexikon der deutsche ?. Biihnen-Angehorigen .

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