Carl Miedke

Miedke was born in Potsdam on 3 September 1773. His father was the Royal Küchenschreiber [de] Gottfried Miedke at the court of Frederick the Great,^[3] the mother was Albertina Charlotta Kaebelizzen or Kaebelitz. He was active on the stage from the age of 18 and was married in his first marriage to the actress and singer Charlotte Miedke, née Pfister (1781 in Mannheim - 22 October 1806 in Stuttgart).^[4] There were three children from this marriage:

• Karl August Krebs (16 January 1804 in Nuremberg - 16 May 1880 in Dresden), who, after his mother's early death from scarlet fever in 1806, was adopted in the child's place by the court singer Johann Baptist Krebs there, with his father's consent, after the couple moved to Stuttgart, and consequently took the name of his foster father Krebs; he was active as a pianist, composer, and latterly in Dresden as court conductor;
• Friedrich Georg Leonhard Miedke (between 31 December 1802 and 31 January 1803 in Nuremberg - 16 October 1842 in Regensburg), who was active as a singer (baritone or bass), actor and director in Stuttgart, Augsburg, Ulm among others,^[5] after retiring from the theatre as a painter, gallery owner and writer in Regensburg;
• Anna Fischer-Maraffa (1802-1866),^[6] who was also adopted after the death of her mother. Under the name of her adoptive father, the opera singer Joseph Fischer, and that of her husband Maraffa, she performed throughout Europe as an opera singer.

In his second marriage, he was married from 3 March 1810 to Wilhelmine Aschenbrenner (1791 - after 1834), who was active as an actress in Stuttgart, Leipzig, Darmstadt among others and who was portrayed in 1834 by the painter Otto Stotz (1805-1873).

Miedke died in 1839 as a retired court actor in Stuttgart at the age of 65.^[7]