Lina Fuhr

Fuhr was born Karoline Fuhrhaus, daughter of an electoral chamber councillor at the Oberfinanzkammer in Kassel.

Other stops were Dresden, Vienna and, in 1854, London, where she made guest appearances with Emil Devrient and Ludwig Dessoir and was particularly appealing in the role of Ophelia.

[1] From 1849 to 1852, she had an engagement at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, after which she moved to the Berlin Hofbühne, where she made her debut in the role of Gretchen.

[2] She married the ophthalmologist and Privy Councillor of Public Health Dr Adolf Ernst Waldau (1822-1895), who had his practice and flat in the Königsmarcksches Palais [de] at Mauerstraße 36.

[6] She was buried in the Alter Zwölf-Apostel-Kirchhof [de] in Schöneberg, where eleven years earlier her husband had already found his final resting place.