Born in
Halberstadt, Porth came with her parents to the theater in
Weimar in 1793 where she married the actor
Heinrich Vohs on 29 June 1793. With him she had five children. Vohs was the first actress to impersonate the title role in Schiller's drama
Maria Stuart in the world
premiere on 14 June 1800 at the
Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar. She was also the first Thekla in Schiller's
Wallenstein in
Bad Lauchstädt. Further roles she created were Kreusa in
Ion by
August Wilhelm Schlegel in 1801, Turandot in the
eponymous drama by Schiller as well as Iphigenie in Goethe's drama
Iphigenia in Tauris, namely in the new production of 1802. Thanks to her singing talent she also found recognition in opera roles, but went with her husband to
Stuttgart in 1802. As his widow she became the mother of an illegitimate daughter of the
Prince Paul of Württemberg in 1805. Through this daughter, Karoline, Vohs is an ancestor of British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson. She became a member of the Vienna Hoftheater in 1808, was engaged in Frankfurt from 1805 to 1817 and at the
Morettisches Opernhaus from 1818 to 1839. In 1818 she married in second marriage the Dresden court actor Friedrich August Werdy (1770–1847). A portrait previously thought to be of Goethe's wife
Christiane Vulpius, a chalk drawing by
Friedrich Bury from the year 1800, in fact shows Friederike Vohs. Vohs died in
Frankfurt. == Further reading ==