Sophie Charlotte Ackermann

Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, born beer ( r) acorn, married. Schröder ( born May 10, 1714 in Berlin, † October 14, 1792 in Hamburg) was a German actress.

Life

Sophie Charlotte Beer Reichel was born as the daughter of a gold ticker. 1734 she married the organist Johann Dietrich Schröder. The marriage was not harmonious, so that they in 1738 separated from her husband, but not divorced. She went to the theater and was in Lüneburg, where it developed soon to an extraordinary actress since 1740 a member of Beautiful man 's troupe. The troupe was from 1740 also her future second husband Konrad Ernst Ackermann. Both left the Schönemannsche troops in 1742 in a dispute. Schröder was the leader of her own acting troupe, who belonged to Konrad Ernst Ackermann in the same year. Private changes in their lives promoted the dissolution of the less successful troupe in 1744, where her son Friedrich Ludwig Schröder was born and her husband died.

She tried in the following years to feed her small family through embroidery, but returned in 1746 returned to the stage and undertook extended trips with Hilverdingschen troops. Among other things, she came to Danzig ( 1746 ), Königsberg ( 1747 ), Saint Petersburg and Moscow ( 1748). In Moscow she married in 1749 Konrad Ernst Ackermann, whereupon this 1751 in Königsberg Ackermannsche troupe founded, who is also the actor Konrad Ekhof belonged from 1763. Ackermann worked well in this troupe as her two daughters from his second marriage Dorothea (* 1752) and Charlotte (* 1757), who stood on the stage already in infancy with the troops.

As a result of the Seven Years' War left the troupe East Prussia. This was followed by numerous guest appearances in Germany. The troop met in 1755 in Berlin on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and led his Miss Sara Sampson on for the first time. Ackermann was at the premiere of the Lady Marwood. Wanderjahre subsequently conducted to Warsaw, Leipzig, Zurich and Strasbourg until the Ackermannsche troops settled in 1764 in Hamburg. Here was the first actress Ackermann; they liked to compare himself with the Neuber. After the death of her husband in 1771 she appeared only rarely. She ended her stage career in 1772 and 1780 were from the line of Ackermann troupe. The last years of her life she devoted herself to the education of young actresses.