Christiane Becker

Christiane Becker (née Christiane Luise Amalie Neumann; 15 December 1778 – 22 September 1797) was a German actress.

She was born in Crossen-an-der-Oder, in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland), daughter of a theatrical manager and dramatic poet, Johann Christian Neumann.

Here, she received some training from Goethe and from Corona Schröter, the singer, and her beauty and charm made her the favourite both of court and public.

[1] Her last part was that of Euphrosyne in the opera Das Petermännchen, and it is under this name that Goethe immortalized her in a poem which first appeared in Schiller's Musen Almanach of 1799.

The Euphrosyne-Denkmal (Euphrosyne Memorial), erected in Rosenberg (now Olesno) and moved to Weimar in 1950, was built in her honour.