Berta Fanta

Berta Fanta (née Sohr; May 19, 1865 – December 18, 1918),[1] was a literary and intellectual figure from Prague.

[3][4] In Prague, Berta Fanta was the hostess of a prominent and famous literary and philosophic salon.

[4] In the two decades before World War I, many prominent individuals attended Fanta's salon, including theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels, writers Franz Kafka and Max Brod, anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner, and philosopher Hugo Bergmann (who became Berta's son-in-law; he was the husband of Berta's daughter Else).

[5] The gatherings ceased around the beginning of World War I, when Fanta's son-in-law Hugo Bergmann was conscripted into the army.

[2] She was a large fan of German culture, especially the music of Richard Wagner and the writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.