Isabella Ploberger

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Isabella Ploberger , nee Isabella Hartl , also Isabella Schlichting , (born April 6, 1913 in Wels , Austria-Hungary ; † November 24, 2002 in Oberalm ) was an Austrian film architect .

biography

The native Isabella Hartl received her training in Vienna , where she studied two semesters at the Technical University and six semesters at the School of Applied Arts in the master class for architecture with Clemens Holzmeister. As a qualified architect, she began her professional career on September 1, 1938 in Berlin in the architecture office of Ernst Petersen. She married the painter of the New Objectivity and costume designer Herbert Ploberger (1902–1977).

On the recommendation of her employer, the young architect got a job at Riefenstahl-Film in 1940, which was currently planning the production of Leni Riefenstahl's opera film Lowland . "The young architect Isabella Ploberger, who, thanks to her great talent, successfully prevailed against her experienced colleagues, had set up a wonderful decoration" (quote from Memoirs Leni Riefenstahl, p. 399, about the final frame of the lowland film). That was the start of her career as a film architect. After the war ended, she worked as an architect for the Americans in Linz. In 1949 she resumed her work as a film architect, from the beginning at the side of the well-known German film architect Werner Schlichting , who later became her second husband. The congenial Schlichting / Ploberger team designed the film structures for numerous top German and Austrian productions. Occasionally the couple was also used for US productions filmed in German-speaking countries. a. hired by Walt Disney and Anatol Litvak.

In 1969 she withdrew into private life with her husband and went to Spain for 20 years. It was not until autumn 1989 that Werner and Isabella Schlichting returned to Austria, to the Salzburger Land, where they spent their twilight years in a retirement home (Schloss Oberalm).

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 265.
  • MEMOIRS Leni Riefenstahl, Verlag Albrecht Knaus, 1987, p. 399. ISBN 3-8135-0154-X

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personal data
SURNAME Ploberger, Isabella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartl, Isabella (maiden name); Schlichting, Isabella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2002
Place of death Oberalm