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SEEBACH, MARIE (183o-1897)

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SEEBACH, See also:MARIE (183o-1897) , See also:German actress, was See also:born at See also:Riga, in See also:Russia, on the 24th of See also:February 183o, being the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm See also:Friedrich Seebach (1798–1863). After appearing first at See also:Nuremberg as Julie in See also:Kean, she played soubrette parts at See also:Lubeck, See also:Danzig and See also:Cassel. In 1852 she achieved her first See also:great success at the Thaliatheater in See also:Hamburg as Gretchen in See also:Goethe's See also:Faust, and she remained there until 1854, when she appeared in See also:Vienna. She then played in See also:Munich, establishing her reputation as a tragic actress with the roles of Jane See also:Eyre and Adrienne See also:Lecouvreur. From 1855 to 1866 she was engaged at the See also:court See also:theatre at See also:Hanover, and there in 1859 she married the See also:tenor See also:Albert Niemann. In 1866 she followed her See also:husband to See also:Berlin, but separated from him after two years. In 187o–1871 she visited the See also:United States, and gave in seventeen cities no less than 16o performances—mostly of Faust; and in 1886 she accepted a permanent engagement at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin. She retired from the See also:stage in 1897, and died on the 3rd of See also:August of that See also:year. In 1895 she endowed a See also:home for poor actors and actresses at See also:Weimar, called the Marie Seebach Stiftung. See Gensichen, Aus Marie Seebachs Leben (Berlin, 19oo).

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