Anita Bach (née Griebel) learned the trade of carpenter and then studied art and mathematics in Greifswald, but moved to Weimar to study architecture, as she had originally intended to do.

After her successful studies, which she passed with distinction, she worked as an assistant and doctoral student at the Department of Residential and Social Buildings. In 1960, she completed her doctorate on the topic of “Residential Building Construction from 1775 to 1845 in Weimar”. In 1965, she was finally habilitated in the Department of Architecture on the subject of student dormitories, the first woman to do so in the GDR. Subsequently, she worked as a professor in the field of building construction and interior design. She also headed the project planning office of the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education at the HAB (Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen) in Weimar from 1967 to 1972.

From 1980 to 1985 she continued as prorector at the HAB Weimar. She also taught abroad, for example in Havana, where she received an honorary professorship in 1986.

Together with her husband Joachim Bach, with whom she had four children, Anita Bach founded the office Bach+Bach in 1992.

In the course of her career, she received numerous awards, including the Clara Zetkin Medal (1963), the Medal of Merit of the GDR (1974), the award “Verdienter Hochschullehrer der DDR (Merited University Teacher of the GDR)” (1985) and the Schinkel Medal in Gold (1987).

Anita Bach died in June 2021 at the age of 94.