Background
Rosemarie Schumacher was the daughter of a school teacher. She grew up in Tuttlingen, Germany.
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.
Going back 10 generations Anne Birk is a relative of Barack Obama.