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Wilhelmine Ullmayer

Czech stage actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2024
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Wilhelmine Ullmayer (1846-1890) was a stage actor. She was engaged at the Estates Theatre in Prague in 1874–1890, where she belonged to the theatre's star attractions. She was known for her roles a soubrette and operetta singer.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Wilhelmine Ullmayer” is czech stage actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wilhelmine, Ullmayer and Czech, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1846, 1890, 1874—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wilhelmine, Ullmayer and Czech is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “czech stage actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2024. The first chronological checks are 1846, 1890 and 1874.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Wilhelmine Ullmayer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.