Berta Fanta

Berta Fanta ( born Sohr; * May 19, 1865 or 1866 in Libochowitz, at that time Austria - Hungary, † December 28, 1918 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Trailblazer of the women's movement.

Life

Berta Sohr was born into a wealthy Jewish family and attended in Prague at an educational establishment for young ladies. In 1884 she married Max Fanta ( born February 2, 1858 in Libochovice, † 1925), who had been appointed by his mother Emilie for pharmacists and Fanta shell invented. The family moved to Prague in the house " Zum Einhorn " on Old Town Square, where their children Else (* July 28, 1886, † 1969 in Jerusalem) and Otto ( 1890-1940 ) were born.

Together with her sister Ida (1868-1931; . Verh friend) she began studying philosophy at Prague's German University, among others, Anton Marty. She thrilled at first, for Nietzsche, but then turned to the philosophy of Franz Brentano to. With her ​​sister she was also involved in the club woman Progress, which promoted the emancipation of women.

In the Prague Café Louvre in Ferdinandstrasse she straightened from about 1907 a bi-weekly philosophers Circle one. Simultaneously, she hosted on Tuesday evening in the parlor of her house the unofficial Fanta circle. Around 1906 /07 they began to deal with theosophical writings and joined the Czech Theosophical Society. During this time, she met Rudolf Steiner.

At the outbreak of World War II, Oskar Pollak and Hugo Bergmann marched and her husband was Paramedics and lived for a time in Vienna. The war had shaken their confidence in the European civilization and she wanted to leave with her daughter Elsa and her son Samuel Hugo Bergman to Jerusalem. After a stroke, she, however, did not come to consciousness.