Rosa Le Seur, married name ''Rosa Junkermann'', (1846 – 1920) was a German stage actress and

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Born in Berlin, Le Seur received her singing lessons from the well-known song composer Ferdinand Gumbert. She worked as the first soubrette and from 1866 was engaged at the Berlin Viktoriatheater, at the court theatre in Meiningen, as well as in Bremen, Nuremberg, Amsterdam, Stuttgart and Breslau, and her most popular roles included ''

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'', '' La belle Hélène'', Boulotte in '' Barbe-bleue)'', '' La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'', Kleine Handschumacherin in '' La Vie parisienne'' etc., thus in operettas by Jacques Offenbach. In Stuttgart, where no operettas were given at that time, she was engaged for 17 years for role of the first Lustspielsoubretten and Salondame. Her sons from her marriage with

August Junkermann August Junkermann (15 December 1832 – 15 May 1915) was a German actor and, as a narrator, an important interpreter of Fritz Reuter's works. Life and work Born in Bielefeld, Junkermann joined the Royal Prussian Artillery Regiment in Cologne at ...

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and Fritz also devoted themselves to acting, as did her stepson Karl Junkermann and his wife Anna Junkermann.

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