A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Weisserthurn, Johanna F. V. Von
WEISSERTHURN, JOHANNA F. V. VON,
Born 1773, at Coblenz, was the daughter of the play-actor, Grünberg. Before she was twelve years old, she became, encouraged by her step-father, Teichman, the director of a little troup, the members of which were her brothers and sisters, and cousins, and with it she performed, at a private theatre, a number of piece expressly written for children. In 1787, an engagement was offered to her at the Munich theatre; in 1789, she exchanged this for one that was offered to her by her step-brother, the director of the theatre at Baden; in 1790, she was called to the Imperial Court Theatre, at Vienna. Here she married, in 1791, Von Weisserthurn. Shortly after her marriage, she published a few plays, which were so well received, that, encouraged by it, she continued to write for the stage, and became quite a prolific author. In 1817, she lost her husband; and in 1841, she withdrew from the stage, and died in 1845.