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Anna Mayer-Bergwald(* 11 May 1852 in Ansbach; † 13. November 1935 in Traunstein) was a German writer, narrator, lyricist, writer for young people, journalist, publicist, travel correspondent, author of festive speeches and prologues, artistic designer of her own books; in addition, she is a painter, photographer, composer, lecturer with lectures on light pictures, nature and environmental conservationist, alpinist, promoter of Bavarian folk culture and of tourism that protects the landscape.

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Life

Anna Mayer was born on 11 May 1852 in Ansbach in the property Pfarrstraße 24, today’s building of the registry office and youth centre of the city of Ansbach. Her father was the foundation administrator and royal councillor Heinrich Mayer. After primary school she attended the Theresien Institute for Higher Daughters and already in early childhood and youth her father awakened her love of nature and enthusiasm for the beautiful Bavarian foothills of the Alps through many visits to Upper Bavaria. Her father, who moved to Munich in 1884 and died in 1897, also awakened in his youngest daughter a fervent desire to protect nature and the animals of the Alpine world from the harmful influences of man. Anna Mayer had moved to Munich with her father and lived there until she bought a villa on Fraueninsel in Lake Chiemsee in 1911, which she called the “Villa Bergwald”. There she lived with the widow Privy Councillor Martha Aegidi, née von Sanden, who was eight years her senior, “in intimate friendship”, as she herself wrote. The two women lived together in a household for 25 years, until Anna Mayer’s death in 1935, and shared “friend and sorrow”.

In addition to her writing activities, she also wrote the lyrics for popular songs and, above all, composed the melodies. Her choral settings for mixed and male choirs are still in use today in Chiemgau and for the Oberammergau Passion Plays she partly reworked the texts and partly wrote new ones. Together with Hermann Kaulbach, she also published a children’s song album.

Source Wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Mayer-BergwaldSource Ansbach Plus: https://www.ansbachplus.de/2014/03/07/weltfrauentag-praesentiert-die-ansbacherin-anna-mayer-bergwald/