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MARIE SEEBACH (183o-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 580 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE See also:SEEBACH (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 See also: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 See also:Marie Seebach Stiftung . See Gensichen, Aus Marie Seebachs Leben (Berlin, 19oo) .

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