Elise Bethge-Truhn
Elise Bethge-Truhn, born Anna Marie Elisabeth Truhn was a German actress and playwright.
Life
Born in Berlin, Bethge-Truhn, the daughter of the royal music director Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn, who had no objection to his daughter turning to the stage, first took acting lessons with Auguste Crelinger, then with Sophie Schröder in Hamburg, and entered the stage for the first time in 1854 in Stettin. In 1855, she worked at the city theatre in Riga, and in 1856 at the court theatre in Schwerin. In Schwerin itself she appeared on 2 December 1875 as Britta in the play Karin von Schweden, which she had written herself.She gained a good reputation not only as a stage artist but also as a playwright.
Bethge-Truhn died in Lübeck at the age of 50.