Sibylle Boden-Gerstner

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Sibylle Boden-Gerstner, b. Sibylle Boden, also under the pseudonym Sibylle Muthesius (born August 17, 1920 in Breslau ; † December 25, 2016 in Berlin ), was a German costume designer , painter and fashion journalist . She was the founder and namesake of the GDR fashion magazine Sibylle .

Life

Sibylle Boden came from a German-Jewish family. Her father was a fur manufacturer and mail order company who later died in a Nazi prison , her mother a business woman. In 1936, at the age of 16, Boden-Gerstner began studying at what was then the textile and fashion school in Berlin . This was followed by studying painting and illustration at the Berlin Art Academy . Due to the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, Boden-Gerstner was soon no longer able to continue her studies because she was considered half-Jewish because of her father .

In 1939/40 Boden met her future husband, Karl-Heinz Gerstner . Thanks to his mediation, she managed to escape to Paris in the autumn of 1940 . There, Boden resumed her painting studies at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts . In the summer of 1944 she returned to Berlin and took part in political campaigns against the Nazi regime. After the end of the war she married Karl-Heinz Gerstner.

Gravestone for Sibylle Gerstner and her daughter Sonja Gerstner at the Kleinmachnow forest cemetery

Boden-Gerstner had two daughters: the writer Daniela Dahn and the painter and writer Sonja Gerstner ; the latter committed suicide at the age of 19 as a result of a psychotic illness. Ten years later, in 1981, Boden-Gerstner published her daughter's poems and paintings under the pseudonym Sibylle Muthesius and added his own comments. The book Flucht in die Wolken was received as critical of psychiatry .

At Christmas 2016, Sibylle Boden-Gerstner died at the age of 96 in Berlin in the house of her daughter, with whom she had lived for a long time. She could no longer take part in the opening of the Sibylle exhibition in Rostock.

Act

From 1945 to 1949 Boden-Gerstner worked as a teacher at a private Berlin fashion school, from 1949 she was mainly active as a costume designer. She worked with the directors Wolfgang Staudte , Slatan Dudow and Gustav von Wangenheim , a. a. for the DEFA films Wolf Among Wolves (1963), Little Man, What Now? (1967) and Farewell to Peace (1979). She dressed film actors like Angelica Domröse , Inge Keller and Manfred Krug .

In 1956 she conceived and founded the fashion magazine Sibylle . The title of the zero number was its first name, which was then retained and later became a trademark. From 1958 to 1961 Gerstner, as deputy editor-in-chief, played a key role in determining the style and appearance of the magazine. After her fashion concept was criticized as "too French", she left the editorial team in 1961.

In the following decades she worked again as a freelance costume designer for DEFA and German television broadcasting . In addition, she was also a freelance interpreter for French and English.

Sibylle Boden-Gerstner painted oil paintings and watercolors throughout her life.

Escape to the clouds

  • Sibylle Muthesius (Sibylle Boden-Gerstner): Escape into the clouds. Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin / GDR 1981 (a compilation of poems / song texts, excerpts from Sonja Gerstner's diary and letters , reproductions of her paintings, memories and interpretations of Sibylle Boden-Gerstner as well as references from her literature. Several, slightly different editions).
    • Escape to the clouds. Afterword by Margarete Mitscherlich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-10-050703-7 ( licensed edition of the book publisher Der Morgen, GDR Berlin. - Edition for the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, Austria and Switzerland).
    • Felhőgyerek . Translation by Gergely Erzsébet. Magvető Kiadó, Budapest 1984, ISBN 963-14-0281-9 (Hungarian).
    • Pony ou la fuite dans les nuages . Translation by Martine Keyser. Robert Laffont, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-221-02341-2 (French).
    • Bijeg u oblake . Globus, Zagreb 1987, ISBN 86-343-0202-4 (Croatian).
    • Escape to the clouds. 7th, unchanged. Edition. Morgenbuchverlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-371-00361-2 (text abbreviated post- turnaround edition without color reproductions of paintings).

Exhibitions

  • April 3 - June 7, 1998 SIBYLLE Gerstner-Boden-Muthesius. Film Museum Potsdam . Review, temporary exhibition
  • December 18, 2016 - April 17, 2017 Sibylle. Rostock art gallery
  • August 24th - October 16th, 2020 watercolors, oil paintings & pastels. Kulturküche Bohnsdorf, Berlin-Bohnsdorf

Movie

  • Grandchildren of the story. Germany 2011/2012, short documentary: Laura Laabs films an interview with her grandmother Sibylle Gerstner

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Founder of the GDR fashion magazine "Sibylle" has died ( Memento from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: svz.de, Schweriner Volkszeitung , December 27, 2016, accessed on July 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Leo : Our man in Paris. Karl-Heinz Gerstner, German anti-fascist and member of the Resistance. Sept. – Oct. 2006. In: antifa . September 5, 2013, accessed July 25, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c watercolors, pictures & pastels. In: kulturnews - news of the Kulturring in Berlin e. V. 30. Vol. 317, Berlin July / August 2020, ISSN  1437-5958 , p. 22 ( kulturring.berlin [PDF; 1.2 MB]).
  4. ↑ Martin Stefke: The eponym ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Märkische Allgemeine . August 7, 2010, accessed August 23, 2012.
  5. ^ SIBYLLE Gerstner-Boden-Muthesius. In: filmmuseum-potsdam.de, accessed on July 25, 2020.
  6. ↑ December 18, 2016 - April 17, 2017. SIBYLLE. THE EXHIBITION ( Memento from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: kunsthallerostock.de, accessed on July 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ Grandchildren of History. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Boden-Gerstner, Sibylle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boden, Sibylle (maiden name); Gerstner, Sibylle; Muthesius, Sibylle (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German costume designer, painter and fashion journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2016
Place of death Berlin