Ladislaus Coppel

Ladislaus Coppel (born March 12, 1895 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary as Fülop László Coppel ; † March 5, 1949 in New York , USA ) was a Hungarian fashion designer , draftsman and costume designer for stage and film.

Life

Coppel started working as a fashion designer shortly after the end of the First World War . Early activities took him from Budapest to Paris and Vienna . There he made his first contacts as a costume designer (and sketch artist) to the theater, especially cabarets and variety shows . In addition, Ladislaus Coppel designed costumes for the first time for the (Austrian) film ( Miss Hobbs, The Toys of Paris ). Since 1923 he has appeared as an outfitter of revues at Viennese ( Ronacher ) and Berlin ( Theater des Westens ) venues. As artistic advisor to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin (1931/32) and its counterpart in Munich (1932/33), he also collaborated with Max Reinhardt , whose production of Jacques Offenbach's Die Schöne Helena he furnished with costumes in 1931 at Berlin's theater on Kurfürstendamm . In 1930 he was also involved in the costume designs for the UFA film Burglar with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch .

As a Jew, marginalized in Germany in 1933 , Coppel returned to Austria and continued his theater work in Vienna ( Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna State Opera , Burgtheater ) and Salzburg ( Festival ) until 1937 . He also taught as a professor at Vienna's Reinhardt Seminar from 1935 to 1938 . In 1935 there was another order for a film, of which an Italian version was also made.

As a result of the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Ladislaus Coppel fled to western countries. In London , where he had designed the Palladium Theater in 1937 , he still designed the costumes for Gabriel Pascal's lavish film adaptation of Shaw's Pygmalion in 1938 . In mid-1938 Coppel traveled on to the USA. There he worked again as a teacher, this time at the Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research . On Broadway in New York, Coppel designed the costumes for operettas such as Die Fledermaus (aka Rosalinda , 1942) and Helen Goes to Troy (1944). A week before his 54th birthday, Ladislaus Coppel committed suicide.

Filmography

• 1921: Miss Hobbs
• 1925: The Toys of Paris
• 1930: burglar
• 1935: Diary of the beloved
• 1938: The novel of a flower girl (Pygmalion)

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 568.

Web links

• Ladislaus Coppel in the Internet Movie Database (English) - wrong year of birth "1904"
• Ladislaus Coppel in filmarchiv.at (PDF; 1.1 MB)