Silke Sommer

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Silke Sommer (born August 24th in Dortmund ) is a German costume designer who has been designing cinema and television films as well as theater and art projects since the 1990s.

Life

Silke Sommer grew up in Dortmund. Her parents were business owners of costume workshops, which had been run in family tradition since 1864 and created international outfits for opera and film. She completed training as a tailor and hat maker and volunteered in the costume department of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She later completed her diploma at the Berlin University of the Arts . She worked with Roland Suso Richter , Marc Rothemund , Omer Fast , Maleonn and Maurice Bejart , among others . She has worked with director Stefan Krohmer for many years. So far she has shot in China, Russia, Iran, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.

The film Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten , for which she was responsible for the costume design, won the German Film Prize 2015 in the category Best Children's Film. She first received the German TV Prize for Costume Design in 1999 for the film Die Bubi-Scholz-Story . Other films in which she was responsible for the costume design were awarded the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize ( Risky Patients , 2012), the Golden Spatz 2011, the Adolf Grimme Prize with Gold in 2002 and 2004, and the Max Ophüls Prize in 2003 .

In 2015 Silke Sommer was appointed to the competition jury of Sehsuchten , the international student film festival at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

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SURNAME Summer, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24 around 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund