Anna Plischke

Anna Plischke (formerly Lang, née Schwitzer; 1895–1983) was a landscape designer trained in Vienna, who practised in New Zealand.

[1][2] After her marriage to Ernst Plischke, the couple came to New Zealand as refugees in 1939 as she was under threat from the Gestapo due to her Jewish heritage.

In New Zealand, they were classified as German under the Aliens Emergency regulations and only avoided being interred on Matiu Somes Island in Wellington Harbour because of her husband's status in his government job with the Housing Department.

[2] In New Zealand, her practice was often related to her architect husband's; he would design the houses and she the landscapes, although he also used her input in specifying the interior finishes including "wood veneers, fittings and fabrics".

[2] Another design was a renovation of a neo-Georgian house in Wellington where windows and a big sliding door opened out to courtyards.