Birch, Charlotte
(1800–1868)> PLAYWRIGHT
Birch, Charlotte , née Pfeiffer (23 June 1800, Stuttgart; 25 August 1868, Berlin), playwright, was also known as Birch-Pfeiffer and Birchpfeiffer. She moved to Munich in 1806 with her father, who served with the Bavarian government in this city until he became blind in 1809. Charlotte began to read Schiller and the classics aloud to him, and this activity gave her a precocious interest in the theatre. In 1813, she made her debut as an actress at age 13 on the stage of the Isarthor Theatre in…