Wilhelmine Berger

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Wilhelmine Berger , also Minna Berger née Wilhelmine Pichler (born February 22, 1805 in Bayreuth , † October 16, 1837 in Bremen ) was a German theater actress .

Life

She was the daughter of the drama director Pichler, who gave her her first lessons on the stage, and when she entered the Braunschweig court theater in 1822 with great success, Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann trained her there for the chosen subject of lovers. She worked there until 1832 and married the actor and singer Carl Philipp Berger in 1824. Her next engagement was in Berlin at the Königstädter Theater and after she left this stage due to a lack of employment in 1833, she became a member of the Breslau Theater and was to be engaged from there to Bremen. On the way there, she must have caught a bad cold, because she suddenly fell ill and died a few days after her arrival in Bremen on October 16, 1837 of flux river.

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