Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann (23 August 1757 – 10 May 1775) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. She was the daughter of the actors Konrad Ernst Ackermann

Konrad Ernst Ackermann

Konrad Ernst Ackermann was a German actor.Ackermann first accompanied field marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich on his travels and in battles. Born in Schwerin, he first entered the stage under a certain Stolle...

 and Sophie Charlotte Ackermann

Sophie Charlotte Ackermann

Sophie Charlotte Ackermann was a German actress from Berlin.- Biography :She first married an organist named Schröder, who was unable to support his family. She entered the stage in 1740 in Lüneburg and established her own troupe in 1741 who failed in 1744. She left the stage for three years...

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Biography

Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann made her the stage debut on 16 October 1761 as Louise in Molière

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

's Malade Imaginaire. She toured in Northern Germany. She was also initially active as a dancer, but concentrated more on her acting career. From 1765, she performed in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, where she became very popular. She died at the age of 17 in 1775. Her body were kept at lite-de-parade to give people the opportunity to say goodbye. Four thousand admirers followed her coffin at her funeral, and the theatre was draped in black morning. She was the sister of Dorothea Ackermann

Dorothea Ackermann

Dorothea Ackermann was a German actor and the oldest daughter of Konrad Ackermann.Born in Danzig in the Polish province of Royal Prussia, she entered the stage at the age of four in the role of Annabella in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson...

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In literature

She became the heroine of the novel Charlotte Ackermann by Otto Müller.