Johanne Sophie Dorothea Albrecht (née Baumer; December 1756,[1] Erfurt – 16 November 1840, Hamburg) was a German actress and writer.

[3] Albrecht's first performance as an actress was in an amateur production of Christian Felix Weiße's Romeo and Juliet with great success in her hometown of Erfurt.

The following year, Albrecht traveled to a small court theater in Schwerin, where her performance often consisted of acting like a naive girl.

[2] In 1796, Albrecht and her husband, now a popular playwright, managed the National Theater in Altona (at that time part of the Kingdom of Denmark).

Sophie commemorated the event with her Antrittsrede bei Eröffnung des Nationaltheaters (Welcoming Address at the Opening of the National Theater) on September 1, 1796.

Although Sophie never did find popularity among male literary establishments, she did have a strong network of women on whom she relied to write about female relations.

She wrote a love poem for fellow actress, Catharina Felicitas Abt, whom Albrecht never met and who had recently died.

Another analysis of Sophie Albrecht's works by Mary Helen Dupree explains: "she channels her experience of loss and death into opportunities for self-exploration, resistance to social norms, and artistic productivity.

[7][8] In 1808, Albrecht published Romantische Dichtungen aus der ältern christlichen Kirche (Romantic Literature from the Early Christian Church); unlike The Polite Ghost, it did not display Gothic themes.