Annemarie Esche is a prominent German scholar of Burmese literature. Beginning her study of Burmese as a German teacher in Burma she later became a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is the widow of Otto Esche (died 2010) with whom she cooperated in the compilation of a German-Myanmar dictionary.
Esche, Annemarie (1968). Der Markt von Pagan. Prosa aus Burma. Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt.Esche, Annemarie (1976). Märchen der Völker Burmas. Wiesbaden : Drei Lilien.Esche, Annemarie (1976). Wörterbuch burmesisch-deutsch. Leipzig: Verlag Enzyklopädie.Esche, Annemarie (1985). Die Goldene Pagode : Shwedagon, ein Sinnbild des Buddhismus. Hanau/Main: Müller & Kiepenheuer.Esche, Annemarie & Eberhard Richter (1988). Burmesisches Übungsbuch. Leipzig. VEB Enzyklopädie.Esche, Annemarie (2005). "The experience of writing the first German-Myanmar dictionary." In Justin Watkins (ed.) Studies in Burmese Linguistics. Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University: 307-318.Esche, Annemarie & Esche, Otto (2011). Wörterbuch Deutsch - Myanma. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.