Josefine from Krepl

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Josefine von Krepl , also Josefine Johanna Therese Edle von Krepl (born June 7, 1944 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ) is a German fashion designer , fashion journalist and founder of the fashion museum in Schloss Meyenburg .

Life

Josefine von Krepl was born in 1944 as a descendant of Austrian nobles from Vienna . The father was committed to war in a torpedo factory in Fürstenwalde during the Second World War, and his wife followed him from Vienna to Fürstenwalde. For the first five years, Josefine von Krepl grew up in Fürstenwalde. In 1950 the family moved to East Berlin . Even while she was still in high school , Josefine von Krepl sewed unusual, unconventional clothing. After graduating from school, she began studying medicine . After a short time she broke off her studies and first learned to tailor. Later she started studying fashion. After completing her studies, Josefine von Krepl was supposed to design buttons and belt buckles in Schmölln . Not wanting to leave Berlin, she started as a trainee at a fashion magazine and studied journalism in Leipzig .

From 1967 she worked as a fashion journalist and fashion designer for the GDR women's magazine Für Dich . Their designs for the popular magazine were often considered too "western" or did not meet the requirements of the GDR fashion institute. In 1980, the journalist submitted the notice to the publisher and opened one of the few private fashion boutiques in the GDR in Berlin-Friedrichshain . Here she made creative fashion from natural fibers , some of which she procured from stocks of the Red Army and unconventional fabrics such as dyed sheets , molton towels or sewn underwear. Since the mid-1980s, after having passed an examination, she was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and organized numerous vernissages .

A few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall , Josefine von Krepl left the GDR and opened a shop with antique fashion in West Berlin . In 1996 she returned to the eastern part of Berlin and settled on Kollwitzplatz . Disappointed by the fashion development in the former GDR after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which had completely turned away from the creative and individual fashion scene and concentrated on western mass-produced goods, she began to increasingly collect worn clothing items from the 20th century.

Josefine von Krepl was married twice and has two sons.

Collection Josefine Edle from Krepl

Entrance to the fashion museum in Meyenburg Castle

After her two sons did not want to take over the extensive collection of clothing in 2003 and some of their clothes were temporarily exhibited in the German pavilion at the Expo 2000 , Josefine von Krepl looked for a way to present her extensive collection on a permanent basis. One of the most famous collectibles is the dress that Jacqueline Kennedy wore when her husband John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in 1960.

Since 2006, Meyenburg Castle in Prignitz has housed the collection of several thousand items of worn clothing and accessories that Josefine von Krepl has been collecting since the late 1950s. The core of the collection is clothing and jewelry from the first eight decades of the 20th century, supplemented by matching pieces of furniture from this period. Around a tenth of the collection is presented to the public today. From 2006 until her retirement in 2015, Josefine von Krepl managed the museum herself, and since 2015 the sponsoring association Modemuseum Schloss Meyenburg e. V. runs the museum.

The Josefine Edle von Krepl collection is one of the most extensive fashion collections of the 20th century. On her 74th birthday, Josefine von Krepl finally handed over the management of the museum to the new managing director Irena Berjas.

literature

  • Fashion museum Schloss Meyenburg: women's fashion of the 20th century. Collection Josefine Edle von Krepl , 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Kupfermann (ed.): The great GDR fashion book: Stories and pictures from everyday fashion . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-359-02261-9 , pp. 112 f .
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang Steil: Josefine Edle von Krepl . March 17, 2017 ( wdr.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Katja Iken: GDR fashion: Shrill from the gray area . In: Spiegel Online . June 7, 2010 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Fashion designer Josefine Edle von Krepl - Smart fashion from Prenzlauer Berg . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Prignitz. A companion . 1st edition. terra press GmbH, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-942917-25-4 , p. 177 .
  6. ↑ What is ... the noble von Krepl doing? In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 11, 2003, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 22 ( taz.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Rags-Fines finest treasures . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on November 25, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Fashion Museum Schloss Meyenburg e. V - The collection. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  9. ^ Fashion Museum: Meyenburg buys part of the collection. Retrieved November 25, 2018 (German).
  10. ^ Fashion in Meyenburg. Retrieved November 25, 2018 (German).
  11. ↑ At the fashion countess . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  12. ^ Henry de Winter was enthusiastic. Retrieved November 25, 2018 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Krepl, Josefine von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krepl, Josefine Edle from; Krepl, Josefine Johanna Therese Edle von (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fashion designer, fashion journalist and museum founder
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenwalde