Eta (Margarete) Harich-Schneider (née Schneider; 16 November 1894 – 10 January 1986) was a German harpsichordist, musicologist, Japanologist and writer.

[1][2] Harich-Schneider graduated from high school in 1915 and married the writer Walther Harich [de] the same year (1888 - 1931[3]), but she left him in 1922 (divorce).

In 1930, she founded a fortnightly concert series of collegium for early music and began to study sources in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which led to her later book Die Kunst des Cembalo-Spiels.

She received an award for her master's thesis The relations of foreign and native elements in the development of Japanese music - a case study.

In her autobiography Charaktere und Katastrophen,[4] she reports on her efforts to resist the increasing influence of Nazi-oriented functionaries and musicians on the Berlin Hochschule für Musik by constitutional means until 1941.

In addition, the book gives a nuanced account of the situation in the circle of Germans in Japan from 1941 until after 1945, not excluding human error, intrigue and tactical followers.

But even at the university in Berlin she was only partially successful in the 1930s - in the end, as an anti-fascist-oriented Catholic, she was pushed aside by intrigues, which she describes in detail in her autobiography.