Eugenie Pappenheim

Born in Vienna, Pappenheim made her debut in Linz in 1866 as Valentine in Les Huguenots.

Further engagements at German and Austrian opera houses followed; notably guest performances in Hamburg in 1874.

In 1876, she appeared as Senta in the American premiere of The Flying Dutchman in Philadelphia.

After her stage career ended, she worked as a singing teacher in New York and Los Angeles where she died in 1924.

Accordingly, the city of Hamburg established the Rudolf Ballin Foundation in 1925, which eighty years later in 2005 was operating twelve day-care centres for children.