Andreas Christian Birch

Andreas Christian Birch (born March 20, 1795 - † August 29, 1868 in Berlin ) was a Danish writer.

Birch was able to complete his studies with a doctorate .

In 1823 he met the German actress Charlotte Pfeiffer , who at the time was a guest at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . Through her mediation and support, he got a job in the administration of the Munich Court Opera in the following year .

In 1825 the couple married. The connection resulted in the daughter, Wilhelmine , who later also became an actress and writer.

In addition to his office at the royal court opera, Birch acted almost exclusively as his wife's manager. Between March 1831 and 1833 he worked in Munich as editor-in-chief of the entertainment magazine Flora . Birch supposedly owed the appointment to the writer Karl Gutzkow .

In 1838 Birch separated from his wife, but did not get a divorce. He remained financially dependent on her all his life, and although she regularly accused him of “wastefulness”, she always supported him quite generously. In the year of separation, Birch went to Paris and lived there for almost ten years. After a long stay in Stuttgart , he returned to Munich in 1850.

In 1855 Birch returned to his wife, who at that time was a member of the ensemble at the royal opera Unter den Linden . Ten years later his wife gave her farewell performance and from then on only worked as a writer. She died on August 23, 1868, presumably of a stroke , and found her final resting place in Cemetery IV of the Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche congregation on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Andreas Christian Birch died six days later, on August 29, 1868, and was buried next to his wife.

Works

Fiction

• Ludwig Philipp I, King of the French . Stuttgart 1851 (3 vol.)
• Marguerite. Novel . Berlin 1854 (Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer arranged the work for the stage)

Non-fiction

• Drama or representation of stage art. Historical, theoretical and practical, for artists and friends of aesthetics . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1856
• Sociability or the human being in society . The publishing bureau, Stuttgart 1847.

Translations

• Henri Lutteroth : Russia and the Jesuits. From 1772 to 1820 (“La Russie et les Jesuites”). Stuttgart 1846.
• François-Auguste Mignet : Antonio Perez and Philip II. Memories of the Spanish court from the 16th century ("Antonio Perez et Philip II."). Hallberger, Stuttgart 1845.
• Louis-Benoît Picard : He knows everything. Comedy in 4 acts (“L'alcalde de Molorido”). Enders, Prague 1829.
• Hester Stanhope : Memoirs of the Lady Esther Stenhope ("Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope"). Hallberger, Stuttgart 1846 (4 vol.).

literature

• Catherine A. Evans: Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. Dramatist . Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1982, OCLC 63631934 . (Dissertation)

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Christian Birch in the bibliographic database WorldCat