Background
She was born in Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia) as the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm Friedrich Seebach.
She was born in Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia) as the daughter of an actor, Wilhelm Friedrich Seebach.
After appearing first at Nuremberg as Julie in Kean, she played soubrette parts at Lübeck, 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 lead roles in Jane Eyre and Adriana Lecouvreur. From 1855 to 1866 she was engaged at the court theatre at Hanover.
She retired from the stage in 1897, and died on 3 August of that year.
In Hanover, in 1859, she married the tenor Albert Niemann. In 1866 she followed her husband to Berlin, but separated from him after two years.