Anne Birk (real name: Rosemarie Tietz, maiden name Schumacher) (*
August 20, 1942 in Trossingen, Germany; †July 29, 2009 in
Esslingen, Germany) was a German author.Rosemarie Schumacher was the
daughter of a school teacher. She grew up in Tuttlingen, Germany. She
then studied German and English language and literature and became a
grammar school teacher in Esslingen, where she lived from 1969
onwards. Around 1980 she began writing. Anne Birk used the maiden name
of her mother as her nom de plume.Her husband Gerold Tietz was also an
author. The couple was childless. Gerold Tietz died just a few days
before his wife.[1]Anne Birk wrote a trilogy on German history: Astern
im Frost (1999), Weiße Flecken an der Wand (2000) and Scherbengericht
(2002). Partly basing the novels on the life of her mother, Anne Birk
is one of the very few German authors dealing critically with the
German history of the 20th century from a very personal family and
village perspective, not just from a global perspective of the entire
nation.
August 20, 1942 in Trossingen, Germany; †July 29, 2009 in
Esslingen, Germany) was a German author.Rosemarie Schumacher was the
daughter of a school teacher. She grew up in Tuttlingen, Germany. She
then studied German and English language and literature and became a
grammar school teacher in Esslingen, where she lived from 1969
onwards. Around 1980 she began writing. Anne Birk used the maiden name
of her mother as her nom de plume.Her husband Gerold Tietz was also an
author. The couple was childless. Gerold Tietz died just a few days
before his wife.[1]Anne Birk wrote a trilogy on German history: Astern
im Frost (1999), Weiße Flecken an der Wand (2000) and Scherbengericht
(2002). Partly basing the novels on the life of her mother, Anne Birk
is one of the very few German authors dealing critically with the
German history of the 20th century from a very personal family and
village perspective, not just from a global perspective of the entire
nation.
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