Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer
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– 25 August 1868 in Berlin
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) was a German
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actress and writer
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She was the daughter of an estate agent named Pfeiffer. She received her early training at the Munich
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court theatre, and in 1818 began to play leading tragic roles at various theatres. In 1825 she married the historian Christian Andreas Birch of Copenhagen
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, but continued to act. From 1837 to 1843 she managed the theatre at Zürich
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In 1844 she accepted an engagement at the royal theatre in Berlin
Berlin
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, to which she remained attached until her death. 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 original, make twenty-three volumes, Gesammelte dramatische Werke (Leip. 1863-1880). Many continued to retain the public favor. Her novels and tales, Gesammelte Novellen und Erzahlungen, were collected in three volumes (Leipzig
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1863-1865).
Her daughter, Wilhelmine von Hillern
Wilhelmine von Hillern
Wilhelmine von Hillern was a German actress and novelist.-Biography:She was the daughter of the novelist Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. She was brought up in Berlin, became an actress at Gotha , and married the prominent jurist von Hillern at Freiburg im Breisgau in 1857. Her husband died 8 December 1882...
, also became an actress.
Works
- Dorf und Stadt (after Berthold AuerbachBerthold AuerbachBerthold Auerbach was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German “tendency novel,” in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.-Biography:Moses Baruch Auerbach was born in Nordstetten in the Kingdom...
) - Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (after Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
) - Der Goldbauer
- Die Grille (after George SandGeorge SandAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
) - Der Herr Studiosus
- Kind des Glücks
- Steffen Langer aus Glogau oder Der holländische Kamin
- Der Leiermann und sein Pflegekind
- Mutter und Sohn
- Nacht und Morgen (after Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
- Die Waise aus Lowood