Marie Seebach was a German actress.

She was born in Riga

Riga

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, Livonia, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 as the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm Friedrich Seebach (1798–1863). After appearing first at Nuremberg

Nuremberg

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 as Julie in Kean, she played soubrette parts at Lübeck

Lübeck

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, Danzig

Gdansk

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 and Cassel

Kassel

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. In 1852 she achieved her first great success at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg

Hamburg

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 as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust

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, and she remained there until 1854, when she appeared in Vienna

Vienna

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.

She then played in Munich

Munich

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, establishing her reputation as a tragic actress with the lead roles in Jane Eyre and Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur

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. From 1855 to 1866 she was engaged at the court theatre at Hanover

Hanover

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, and there in 1859 she married the tenor Albert Niemann

Albert Niemann (tenor)

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. In 1866 she followed her husband to Berlin, but separated from him after two years. In 1870-1871 she visited the United States, and gave in seventeen cities no less than io performances mostly of Faust; and in 1886 she accepted a permanent engagement at the Schauspielhaus

Schauspielhaus

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 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

Weimar

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, called the Marie Seebach Stiftung.

See Gensichen, Aus Marie Seebachs Leben (Berlin, 1900).