Margarete Schweikert
Her father sold insurance and was also a music critic for Neue Stuttgarter Musikzeitung and Karlsruher Blätter.
Her mother played piano and helped her family manage the Jakob Petry Jewelry Store.
[1] She studied with Heinrich Deecke, S. de Lange, Joseph Haas, Max Herold, Theodor Munz, and Karl Wendling.
[5] Shweikert composed over 160 songs, based on texts by Ferdinand Avenarius, A. von Berchthold, Hans Beversdorff, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Victor August Eberhard Bluthgen, Adolf Bube, Georg Busse-Palma, Georg Friedrich Daumer, Max Dauthendey, Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel, Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Paul Alfred Enderling, Erich Enke, Gustav Falke, Friedrich Ludwig Konrad Fiedler, Casar Flaischlen, Johann von Goethe, Ernst Goll, Martin Greif, Eduard Rudolf Grisebach, Otto Erich Hartleben, Heinrich Heine, Albert Herzog, Hermann Hesse, Max Hoffman, Friedrich Holderlin, Adolf Holst, Maria Tolk Janitschek, Ludwig Jungmann, Martha Kropp, Isolde Kurz, Else Lasker-Schuler, Ludwig Marohl, Georg Marrell, Carl Meissner, Otto Michaeli, Agnes Miegel, Christian Morgenstern, Julius Mosen, Borries Baron von Munchhausen, Erminia von Natangen, Friedrich Heinrich Oser, Karl Pannier, Psalm 23, Psalm 104, Ferdinand Raimund, Robert Reinick, Anna Ritter, Fritz Romhildt, Carl Sacher, Margarete Sachse, Frieda Schanz, Ziska Luise Schember, Max Gottfried von Schenkendorf, Ernst Scherenberg, Wilhelm Schiffer, Johannes Schlaf, Gustav Schuler, Johannes Schweitzer, A. W. Stern, Maurice Reinhold von Stern, Karl Stieler, Marie Stona, Eva-Marie Stosch, Adolf Strodtmann,Julius Karl Reinhold Sturm, Auguste Supper, Carmen Sylva, Theowill Ubelacker, Ludwig Karl Vanselow, Heinrich Wilhelm Vierordt, Walther von der Vogelweide, Richard von Volkmann, Artur von Wallpach, O. Wentorf, Wilhelmine Grafin Wickenburg-Almasy, and Ernst Zahn.
[5][7][8] In 1950 Schweikert became an expert advisor for music at the Karlsruhe Gemeinschaft Deutscher und Oesterreichischer Künstlerinnenvereine (GEDOK; Association of German and Austrian Female Artists).
