Anja Eder is a natu­re pho­to­grapher, com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on desi­gner, book aut­hor and gar­den owner of a 180 m² urban gar­den in the midd­le of Wuppertal’s Nord­stadt dis­trict. Anja is the aut­hor of two out­stan­ding books, which she con­cei­ved and desi­gned inde­pendent­ly as a free­lan­ce com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on desi­gner and pro­du­ced via crowd­fun­ding: “Wild­bie­nen­hel­fer” and “Mein Arten­ret­ter­gar­ten”. In 2018, Anja began pho­to­gra­phi­cal­ly docu­men­ting and iden­ti­fy­ing all the small inha­bi­tants of her gar­den, over 120,000 macro pho­to­graphs. The wild bee hel­per book pres­ents 45 wild bee spe­ci­es. The Arten-Ret­ter-Gar­ten book pres­ents over 300 dif­fe­rent insect spe­ci­es in indi­vi­du­al por­traits: which plants they need or pre­fer, which habi­tat they need, how and whe­re they house their off­spring, when they are out and about, what they eat, what they look like and why they are so important to us all. 

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Anja has pro­du­ced a high-qua­li­ty film espe­ci­al­ly and exclu­si­ve­ly for the Orga­nic Bal­c­o­ny Con­gress: “A look into our gar­den with over 260 plants and well over 300 insect spe­ci­es”. Solo artist and cam­pai­gner Anja Eder was award­ed 1st place in the “Best Book Ani­mals in the Gar­den” cate­go­ry at the Ger­man Gar­den Book Pri­ze 2025 for her book “Mein Arten­ret­ter­gar­ten” (My Spe­ci­es Saver Gar­den) for the mam­mo­th pro­ject on the fasci­na­ting world of insects in the gar­den. Let’s shape a future for bio­di­ver­si­ty tog­e­ther!