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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 estate See also: agent named Pfeiffer
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She received her early training at the See also: Munich See also: court theatre, and in 1818 began to See also: play leading tragic roles at various theatres
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In 1825 she married the historian Christian Birch of See also: Copenhagen, but continued to See also: act
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From 1837 to 1843 she managed the theatre at Zurich
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In 1844 she accepted an engagement at the royal theatre in Berlin, to which she remained attached until her See also: death on the 24th of See also: August 1868
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Her intimate knowledge of the technical necessities of the 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
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1863-188o)
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Many still retain the public favour
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Her novels and tales, Gesammelte Novellen and
Erzdhlungen, were collected in three volumes (Leip
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1863-1865)
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Her daughter, WILHELMINE VON HILLERN (b
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1836), born at Munich, went on the stage, but retired upon her See also: marriage in 1857
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After 1889 she lived in See also: Oberammergau and won a reputation as a novelist
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Her most popular See also: works are Ein Arzt der Seele (1869, 4th ed
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1886); and 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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