Born Anna Juliane Bochkoltz in
Trier, she was the daughter of the lawyer Johnann Friedrich Joseph Bochkoltz and his wife Barbara, née Sauer. Her nickname was Nanny. She taught drawing from 1831 to 1833 at her mother's private school. She trained her voice, reportedly first with Stephan Dunst. She had contact with
Jenny von Westphalen, later the wife of
Karl Marx. She performed her first concert in Trier in 1843. In 1844, she studied at the conservatory of Brussels, in 1845 in Paris. The following year, she became "Membre Solo de la Sociètè du Conservatoire de Paris". She gave concerts in Paris, London, Berlin and Trier. In the 1850s, she appeared on the opera stages of the
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the
Frankfurt Opera,
National Theatre Munich and
Landestheater Coburg. Wilhelmine Raab (1848–1917), Ida Benza (1846–1889) and Hermann Rosenberg (1849–1911). She composed songs with piano accompaniment. She lived and taught from 1873 in
Strasbourg, and later in Paris, where she died. She was regarded as one of the important dramatic coloratura sopranos of her era, noted for the range of her voice. == Performances ==