Background
Hagn was a daughter of the businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab.
Hagn was a daughter of the businessman Karl von Hagn and his wife Josepha Schwab.
Her younger brother was the painter Ludwig von Hagn. At her first appearance at the 1828 Munich Hoftheater, the audience applauded at once and she had huge successes at the Burgtheaters in Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Budapest. From 1838 to 1846 she belonged to the Berlin Hofbühne.
She worked in Street St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Budapest and other cities and seems to have been celebrated everywhere she went.
Her talent for comedy was apparently based on her beauty and demeanour. She was much less well-suited to tragic roles.
Her witty impromptu asides gave her the nickname of "the German Déjazet". After her divorce Charlotte Hagner lived for a time in Gotha, then in Munich, where she died in April 1891.
She was buried as Charlotte von Oven in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.
Her grave has been preserved.
She was described as a witty and charming conversationalist, and she competed with Karoline Bauer. The theatre audiences were divided into "Hagnerians" and "Bauerians".