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BIRCH - See also:PFEIFFER, See also:CHARLOTTE (1800-1868), See also:German actress and dramatic writer, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 23rd of See also:June 1800, the daughter of an See also:estate See also:agent named Pfeiffer . She received her See also:early training at the See also:Munich See also:court See also:theatre, and in 1818 began to See also:play leading tragic roles at various theatres . In 1825 she married the historian See also:Christian Birch of See also:Copenhagen, but continued to See also:act . From 1837 to 1843 she managed the theatre at See also:Zurich . In 1844 she accepted an engagement at the royal theatre in See also:Berlin, to which she remained attached until her See also:death on the 24th of See also:August 1868 . Her intimate knowledge of the technical necessities of the See also:stage fitted her for the successful dramatization of many popular novels, and her plays, adapted and See also:original, make twenty-three volumes, Gesammelte dramatische Werke (Leip . 1863-188o) . Many still retain the public favour . Her novels and tales, Gesammelte Novellen and Erzdhlungen, were collected in three volumes (Leip . 1863-1865) . Her daughter, WILHELMINE VON HILLERN (b . 1836), born at Munich, went on the stage, but retired upon her See also:marriage in 1857 . After 1889 she lived in See also:Oberammergau and won a reputation as a novelist . Her most popular See also:works are Ein Arzt der Seele (1869, 4th ed . 1886); and See also:Die Geier-Wally (1883), which was dramatized and translated into See also:English as The See also:Vulture See also:Maiden (Leip . 1876) . |
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