Sabine von Oettingen

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Sabine von Oettingen (* 1962 in Berlin ) is a German artist , costume and stage designer and fashion designer .

The artist Sabine von Oettingen

Life

Sabine von Oettingen comes from a family of artists. Her father was the writer Hans von Oettingen . She has four siblings. Von Oettingen her career in 1979 began as Kascheur housemaid and decorator at the Berliner Ensemble and the Pantomime Theater from Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin (East). From 1980 she was a member of the Berliner Pantomimentheater under the direction of Eberhard Kube . This is followed by costume and stage design assistants with Lothar Scharsisch, Ursula Scheib and Manfred Bofinger . In 1983 Sabine von Oettingen co-founded the alternative East German fashion label ccd .

In 1985 the autodidact received the "proper professional ID" as a freelance costume and stage designer from the Berlin magistrate (GDR). That was the prerequisite for free artistic work in the GDR. It followed u. a. Commissions for costume designs at the Berlin Volksbühne , the Schwerin City Theater , the Neubrandenburg Puppet Theater and the Halle Opera . In 1987 he left for the USA with a second home in Berlin (West). After making costume designs in Paris and St. Brieux, she received the Berlin Designer Prize for Creativity in 1989 and was invited to Haute Couture Paris by Nina Ricci .

In the years since 1990 von Oettingen has received orders for stage and costume design in Nuremberg, Weimar, Berlin, Bad Pyrmont, Erfurt, Jena, Reutlingen, Halle, Rostock, Paris and Leipzig. The German Historical Museum bought 1,997 parts of their collection on from the 1980s.

In 1999, Sabine von Oettingen and her partner, the French writer and accountant Thierry Benquey, began to expand the Obermühle in Polleben . However, on September 17, 2003, a fire destroyed the almost completed building. The mill itself was completely destroyed. The house was rebuilt and revitalized, but sold in the 2010s.

In 2009 von Oettingen was the protagonist in the film Comrade Couture - A Dream in Strawberry Foil by Marco Wilms, which shows the parallel world of the fashion and survival artists of East Berlin .

The German House of New York University dedicated a two-month personal exhibition to her in 2011 with the photographer Jürgen Hohmuth under the title "New York is Where We Are".

Sabine von Oettingen lives in Halle / Saale .

“My fashion is always somehow theatrical, that's because my love is for the stage from which I come. In everyday life I need a good sweater, decent jeans and walking shoes, nothing else is necessary. But fortunately there are still any wonderful occasions on which we absolutely need one of these dresses, robes or elegant covers that are made like diary pages. "

- Sabine von Oettingen

Awards

literature

  • Kathrin Schmidt, Jürgen Hohmuth: 1055 Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg 1980-1990 . Edition Braus, 2011, ISBN 978-3862281107 .
  • Jürgen Hohmuth: Sabine von Oettingen. A picture book . Zeitort Verlag.
  • Women art . Busse Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3512040016 .
  • Moritz Götze: A time of great freedom . Hasenverlag Halle, 2016 ISBN 978-3945377260 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New York is Where We Are. In: deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ Paul Kaiser, Claudia Petzold: Boheme and Dictatorship in the GDR - Catalog for the exhibition of the German Historical Museum from September 4 to December 16, 1997 . Berlin 1997, Verlag Fannei & Walz, p. 370ff., ISBN 978-3927574397
  3. ↑ Stefanie Dörre: About strong women, self-sewn clothes and fashion items: how fashion in the GDR could create freedom. In: goethe.de. Archived from the original on June 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Berlin Foundation German Historical Museum (ed.): We write history: 25 years of the German Historical Museum . Deutsches Historisches Museum, 2011, pp. 35f., ISBN 978-3861021735 .
  5. ↑ Obermühle. In: polleben.eu. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Frieder Fahnert: Family fate: Parents are looking for solitude. In: mz-web.de. October 6, 2003, accessed August 19, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Grit Thönnern: Mode: Leap into the gray. In: zeit.de. April 21, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ When clothes fall out of the ordinary. In: mainpost.de. September 8, 2009, accessed August 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Helga Langelüttich: Designer presents rainwear. In: mz-web.de. March 17, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oettingen, Sabine von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, costume and set designer and fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin