Aenne welcome
Aenne Willkomm , also Änne Willkomm , (born June 17, 1902 in Shanghai , Chinese Empire , † June 20, 1979 in Hamburg , Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German costume designer with a short career in film in the 1920s.
Live and act
Nothing is currently known about Aenne Willkomm's origin. Shortly after her apprenticeship, she came to film at the age of 20, where, together with her experienced colleague Heinrich Umlauff , she was allowed to design the costumes for Fritz Lang's two-part large-scale production The Nibelungs . The enormous success of the film meant that Willkomm was also hired to design the groundbreaking, futuristic costumes for Lang's Metropolis film in 1925 . Her clothing of Maria ( Brigitte Helm ) should set accents. As Aenne Willkomm explained in a newspaper interview in early 1927, she intended to emphasize "the realism and authenticity of the fantastic" with the designs used there. Aenne Willkomm then only contributed costumes to two films.
After working on the remake of Hermann Sudermann's Der Katzensteg (1927), the fashion designer retired from professional life and married the film architect Erich Kettelhut , with whom she had worked for the first time on the “Nibelungen”. The couple lived in Hamburg until the end, Aenne Willkomm only survived her husband by a good three months.
Filmography (complete)
- 1924: The Nibelungs Part 1: Siegfried (costumes with Heinrich Umlauff )
- 1924: The Nibelungs Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge (costumes with Heinrich Umlauff)
- 1924: My Leopold
- 1926: Metropolis
- 1926: Sister Veronika
- 1927: The Katzensteg
Web links
- Aenne Willkomm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aenne Willkomm at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article “Metropolis-Moden” in: Neue Berliner Zeitung, the 12 o'clock sheet of January 7, 1927
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welcome, Aenne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Welcome, anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai , Chinese Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1979 |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Federal Republic of Germany |