Monika Bauert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Monika Bauert (born December 31, 1943 in Posen , German Reich , today Poland ) is a German set designer , film architect and costume designer .

Live and act

At the end of the war in 1945, Bauert was expelled from her hometown of Poznan by the Poles and grew up in Wuppertal . She received her professional training at the local craft school. Then Monika Bauert started working as a set designer at German venues such as Ulm, Dortmund and Oberhausen. Her specialty is acting, but Bauert also designed the sets for operas and operettas, musicals and ballet performances and also contributed the costumes. A two-year theater tour took the artist across South America. In 1970 Monika Bauert first came across television.

In the following period she designed the costumes for selected productions such as the English-language films The Odessa Files , Hidden Objective and Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy by Wolfgang Petersen , whose internationally well-received large-scale production Das Boot Bauert a few years earlier, also in terms of costume technology had looked after. At the beginning of the 1990s, Bauert shifted her field of work more and more in the direction of film architecture and in the same decade worked on some very successful German cinema comedies such as The Moving Man , The Super Woman and Knockin 'on Heaven's Door . Monika Bauert has hardly worked for film or television since 2010.

Monika Bauert is godmother and lecturer at the International Film School in Cologne for the "Scenography advanced training program" and is committed to training and promoting the next generation. She is on the board of the German Film Academy .

Filmography

As a costume designer

As a film architect

literature

  • Film and Television Design Annual, 2nd year 1987, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 110
  • Film and Television Design Annual, 7th year 1993/94, hrgg. from the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers eV, p. 145

Web links