Adolf Christen (7 August 1811 – 13 July 1883) was a
Bavaria
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stage actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...
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[gravestone of the family grave at the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.] theater director and theater manager of the old
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
"Aktientheater".
Christen was born in Berlin. When the father of the actress
Klara Ziegler
Klara Ziegler, also Clara Ziegler, (27 April 1844 – 19 December 1909) was a German stage actress and writer.
Life
Born in Munich, Ziegler, the daughter of a whitewashing (censorship), whitewashing owner, was to marry a highly respected, wea ...
died he got the wardship of her. First he declined her wish to become actress but later he taught her. In 1876 he married her.
[from: Pataky, Sophi]
''Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder''
Vol. 2, Berlin, 1898, p. 463.
He died in Munich. The family grave is at the
Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.
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German male stage actors
German theatre managers and producers
German theatre directors
Male actors from Berlin
1811 births
1883 deaths
Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof
19th-century German male actors