She played leading roles in plays by Friedrich Schiller , who was a good friend of hers. She wrote poetry, novels, and prose, and was married to the doctor and writer Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht. Sophie Albrecht was born to the Baumer family.
At age 15, she married Dr. Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht, who was one of her father's students. There, Friedrich edited a literary anthology, which included Sophie's first published poems.
The Albrechts returned to Erfurt in due to Sophie's mother's failing health. Her mother died the next year. In Erfurt at age 25, Sophie published her first book of poetry and started acting. Her debut as a professional actress happened in , with the Grossmann troupe. The troupe did performances in Frankfurt and Mainz. Sophie Albrecht and Friedrich Schiller had similar interests and became close friends. The following year, Albrecht traveled to a small court theater in Schwerin , where her performance often consisted of acting like a naive girl.
In , Albrecht and her husband, now a popular playwright, managed the National Theater in Altona at that time part of the Kingdom of Denmark. A year later, Albrecht quit the Altonaer Nationaltheater and divorced her husband. In Reval, Albrecht's poems were first published in a literary anthology edited by her husband.
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. Sophie dedicated her first two volumes of poetry ; to women friends. She wrote a love poem for fellow actress, Catharina Felicitas Abt , whom Albrecht never met and who had recently died.
