Greti Klay

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Greti Kläy , b. Schlapfer, formerly Luginbühl, (born March 3, 1930 in Lucerne ; † November 20, 2015 ) was a Swiss film director , costume designer and art weaver.

Life

Kläy trained as a dressmaker and attended the trade school in Bern from 1947 to 1949 . After completing her training at the trade school, Kläy trained as a hand weaver and has dedicated herself to hand carpet weaving since 1950.

Kläy met her first husband, Bernhard Luginbühl, at the vocational school . The marriage followed in 1950; the marriage has two daughters. Luginbühl dedicated his stone figure Greti to Kläy , but after the divorce in 1957 renamed her Seated Woman . In 1959 she married the painter Fritz Kläy .

She started working as a costume designer in the film industry in the 1970s. Her only directorial work was the children's film Anna annA in 1993 with co-director Jürgen Brauer . She also worked on the script for the film based on a popular Swiss children's book by Lukas Hartmann .

Filmography

  • 1977: Little ones also freeze in summer (costume design)
  • 1985: Symphony (series, costume design)
  • 1986: Queen of Elastic (redesign, assembly)
  • 1988: My friends in the GDR (script, montage)
  • 1989: Pestalozzis Berg (costume design)
  • 1991: Anna Göldin - Last Witch (costume design)
  • 1992: Anna annA (co-director, screenplay)
  • 1998: Propellerblume (costume design)
  • 2001: Dear Brad (TV, costume design)
  • 2003: Au sud des nuages ​​- Five Valais farmers on the wrong track (costume design, production design)

literature

  • Greti Klay . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , p. 429.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hommages - Pour que son souvenir demeure: Greti KLÄY. Retrieved June 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jochen Hesse: The popular artist: the example of Bernhard Luginbühl . Peter Lang, Bern 2008, p. 28.
personal data
SURNAME Klay, Greti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlapfer, Greti (maiden name); Luginbühl, Greti (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film director, costume designer and art weaver
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 20th November 2015