WIRRICH, Heinrich
(b. ca. 1515, Aarau, d. ca. 1572, Austria)

Biography

Heinrich Wirrich was a Swiss poet. From 1544 until about the mid-1550s he was a resident in Solothurn, then in Zurich. Living a peripatetic life, he participated in court festivities as an actor and singer in southwest Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He wrote sensational stories about these events.