Anja Marais [SEP] place of birth
Anja Marais
Anja Marais (born 1974) is a South African sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist. She has completed residencies in Japan, Korea, Russia and Florida and completed solo and group shows in Asia, Europe and the US. 
Biography.
Anja Marais was born in 1974 Sabie, Mpumalanga, South Africa. She attended the University of Pretoria where she studied visual arts and graduated with honors from the University of South Africa in Pretoria in 1998. After graduation, she moved to Florida where she became the
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Seven weeks before the Olympics in Barcelona, Anja gave birth to her son Lauren. She followed her husband Merten Mauritz to Austria and changed her name to Fichtel-Mauritz. She still represented Germany at the team Olympics and took second place behind the Italian team.
The Russians met Fichtel in Moscow in 1993. At the “Russian Cup”, she lost to Diane Byakendy and took second place. In March 1997, she announced her retirement, and in October of the same year she gave birth to her