Luise Neumann was a German

Germany

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 actress, the daughter of actress Amalie Haizinger. Her younger sister, Adolfine Neumann, was also an esteemed actress of the period.

At the age of 16 she made her debut in a performance of the "Deutschen Hausfrau" in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

 and in 1839 she joined the Burgtheater

Burgtheater

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 in Vienna

Vienna

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, which she was a member of until 1856. On 14 January 1857 she married Karl Graf von Schönfeld and ended her career as an actor.