MARIE

See also:

• MARIE SEEBACH (183o-1897)

SEEBACH (183o-1897)  , German actress, was born at Riga, in Russia, on the 24th of February 183o, being the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm Friedrich Seebach (1798–1863) . After appearing first at Nuremberg as Julie in Kean, she played soubrette parts at Lubeck, Danzig and Cassel . In 1852 she achieved her first great success at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust, and she remained there until 1854, when she appeared in Vienna . She then played in Munich, establishing her reputation as a tragic actress with the roles of Jane Eyre and Adrienne Lecouvreur . From 1855 to 1866 she was engaged at the court theatre at Hanover, and there in 1859 she married the tenor Albert Niemann . In 1866 she followed her husband to Berlin, but separated from him after two years . In 187o–1871 she visited the 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 stage in 1897, and died on the 3rd of August of that year . In 1895 she endowed a home for poor actors and actresses at Weimar, called the Marie Seebach Stiftung . See Gensichen, Aus Marie Seebachs Leben (Berlin, 19oo) .