- The actress Clara Salbach was very busy at the theater in the first place.
- She already made her stage debut in 1880 at the Hoftheater in Weimar. It followed engagements in Mainz, Leipzig and Dresden. There she remained active till 1932 before she retired.
- She only took part in one movie in her whole career.
- She left the stage in 1932 after an engagement of 43 years in Dresden and she died in that city in 1944.
- During her time in Dresden she was awarded the title of (Saxon) court actress.
- Already in her early years, the critics described her as one of the few "really brilliant natures among the acting women in Germany", especially "because of her main roles in Schiller", but who was not only the "most poetic and most delicate of grace" youthful heroine, but also has an "astonishing register of furious passion".
- Salbach trained with Minona Frieb-Blumauer, and made her debut as an actress in 1880 at the Weimar Court Theater.
- From 1912, Hofmann-Salbach switched to motherhood roles, which she played on the Dresden stage until 1931.
- In 1902 she married Jean Hofman and she continued her career as Clara Hofmann-Salbach.
- During her early theater years, Salbach was awarded the gold medal of merit for art and science by the then Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen.
- In 1898 she was awarded the civil gold medal Bene merentibus by the Ministry of the Royal House of Saxony for her achievements.
- Hofmann-Salbach died in Dresden in 1944, the urn with its ashes was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove.
- On the occasion of her departure from the Dresden State Theater, she was made an honorary member of the stage, her portrait is still hanging in the ancestral gallery of the State Theater to this day.
- From 1902 at the latest, she and her husband couple lived in the Villa Salbach in Niederlößnitz.
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