Hill Reihs-Gromes

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Hildegarde "Hill" Reihs-Gromes , mostly referred to as Hilde Reihs-Gromes in film (* 1910 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary , † October 30, 1987 in Vienna ) was an Austrian costume designer for the stage and film.

Live and act

Little is known about the early years of the native Hildegarde Gromes. Born in Cracow, she received her artistic training from Bertold Löffler at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Another teacher was Alfred Roller . She took her first professional steps as an assistant to Alfred Kunz . In the middle of the Second World War (1942) she was placed alongside her experienced colleague Albert Bei to design the costumes for numerous entertainment films , including several by Gustav Ucicky , for the state-controlled Wien-Film . After the war, Hilde Reihs-Gromes also worked with Bei's son Leo Bei . During this time she provided escapist-sweet entertainment such as The Heart of a Woman, Vienna Dances, Two Hearts and a Throne , The Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal, Scandal in Ischl , In the Prater the trees are blooming again and The Landlady to the Golden Crown . Reihs-Gromes was also involved in Alberto Cavalcanti's 1955 film adaptation of Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti .

At the beginning of the 1960s, the designer shifted her work from film more and more to the stage and television. For the latter medium, she mainly designed the costumes for ambitious literary adaptations or stage films, including The Seagull (based on Chekhov), Weatherlight (based on Strindberg), The Magic Flute (based on Mozart), Ghost Comedy (based on Coward), and The Merchant of Venice (based on Shakespeare ), He wants to make a joke (based on Nestroy) as well as the dream novella, Das weite Land and Countess Mizzi (all three based on Arthur Schnitzler's models). Your last television production was 1979 Der Wald after an Ostrowski play.

At the theater, Hilde Reihs-Gomes, who mostly called herself Hill Reihs-Gromes as a stage artist, worked at the most important venues in Vienna: the Burgtheater , the Theater in der Josefstadt , the Volksoper Vienna , the Theater an der Wien , the Akademietheater and the Wiener State Opera (there, among others, Hoffmann's stories, La Traviata, Macbeth, Carmen, Kabale and Liebe ). She was also involved in opera productions at the Salzburg Festival . During this time she also worked as an outfitter from time to time. Guest performances have also taken Hill Reihs-Gromes to German-speaking countries (for example on stages in Munich, Zurich, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main).

Hilde Reihs-Gromes also made several guest appearances: in 1967, for example, she designed the costumes for Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods as part of the Berlin Festival. In 1973 she came to the Paris Opera for a performance of Moses and Aaron . The costume designer provided one of her late costume designs for Peter Beauvais ' Berlin production (from 1978) of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (set: Jan Schlubach ), which ran there until 1987. In 1983 Hill Reihs-Gromes also took part in the Bregenz Festival with The Difficult by Hugo von Hofmannsthal .

The Viennese by choice had also worked as a book illustrator, for example on the 1957 work “Gutes Behavior asked. A contemporary guide for him and her ”by Willy Elmayer. In autumn 2013 an exhibition was dedicated to the costume designer in Vienna-Hietzing under the title "Between Puntila & Girardi - Hill Reihs-Gromes' costume designs for Vienna Film". Hilde / Hill Reihs-Gromes was married to the Viennese painter and architect Otto Reihs (1909-1993). The artist was buried as Hildegarde Reihs in the Baumgarten cemetery in Vienna on November 12, 1987, her husband was buried on May 6, 1993.

Filmography

Costumes for movies, unless otherwise stated:

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1370.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth in Bettina Behr: stage designers
  2. ↑ exact date of death
  3. ↑ Event calendar 2013
personal data
SURNAME Reihs-Gromes, Hill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reihs-Gromes, Hildegarde; Reihs-Gromes, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian costume designer for stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1987
Place of death Vienna