Bernays was born in
Munich in 1883 and moved with her family to
Karlsruhe in 1890. The family moved again in 1905 to
Heidelberg, where Bernays sat her
Abitur at the humanities-oriented Humanistisches Gymnasium in 1906. From 1906 to 1912, she studied economics at
Heidelberg University. her father,
Michael Bernays, was a professor of literary history at the
University of Munich, and her mother was Louise née Rübke. She had two brothers,
Hermann Uhde-Bernays (1873–1965), an art historian, and (1881–1948), an academic. She collaborated with the communist revolutionary
Eugen Leviné in 1919 to host discussion evenings in Heidelberg. In 1920, she stood as a candidate for the
Deutsche Volkspartei (DVP; German People's Party) in the Weimar
Reichstag elections; she appeared at fourteenth on the party's national list. She was elected to the
Baden Landtag – the parliament of the
Republic of Baden – in 1921 and held her seat until 1925. She wrote many articles and pamphlets on topics including women's role in a democratic society, child-rearing, and social welfare. In 1933, distressed by the rise of
Nazism and the DVP's shift towards right-wing politics, she entered a convent and converted to
Roman Catholicism. She died of natural causes in 1939 in
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