Rosine Regina Ahles

Rosina Regina Ahles (5 December 1799, Bietigheim - 13 June 1854, Berlin) was a German actress, notable in her own right and as the wife of the actor, composer and writer Albert Lortzing.

Life She was the daughter of Johannes Ahles, a gravedigger in Bietigheim, and his wife, Regina Dorothea (née Kohlbrey). She had eight daughters and three sons, five of whom died in infancy. In 1832 Ringelhardt took over the Stadttheater in Leipzig and summoned Albert and Rosina to his place, where they again met Albert's parents. The Lortzings lived in Leipzig for about a decade, and the rest of their children were also born there. Rosina retired from acting to devote her time to her role as a mother, while Albert, who had become a composer, obtained a position as a kapellmeister in 1844.

After Albert's dismissal in Leipzig, the family's path led through various stations to Vienna and Berlin, where Albert died in 1851. Rosina considered moving to relatives in Stuttgart, but soon fell ill and died in Berlin in 1854 at the age of 54. Like her husband three years earlier, she was buried in the Sophienfriedhof II. Unlike Albert Lortzing's grave, Rosina's grave was not preserved.