Friederieke Henirette Christiane Eugenie John was born on this day in Arnstadt. Her father was a popular portrait painter, and as such, his daughter would gain a patron in the Princess of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen after studying music with her. She was sent to court in Vienna for three years because she was such a fine singer; while there she attended the Vienna Conservatory focusing on opera. However, she became completely deaf after a virulent ear infection and returned to her patroness in Sonderhausen 1853. The Princess then suggested that she take up novel writing as all her correspondence was so well penned. For the purposes of writing, she returned to the birth town. She published under the name E. Marlitt (or, rarely, as Eugenie Marlitt). Her works spanned between 1864 and 1874 and comprised both short stories and novels. He works were exclusively published in Die Gartenlaube and were so popular that subscriptions doubled during the time that he works appeared in the publication. More that half of the films that used her novels for source material were produced in the silent era, with the first in 1917: Im Hause des Kommerzienrats. The last silent film to use her work for the basis of a screenplay was Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell in 1925. The first sound film to use her work came in 1945 just before the end of the second world war and was produced in Mexico. The most recent use of her work in a film was in 1985 and was made in what was then West Germany. She died of natural causes in her hometown on the 22nd of June in 1887 and wad buried in the cemetery there.
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