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Sylta Busse (born July 7, 1906 in Westerland , Sylt ; † March 3, 1989 in Augsburg ) was a German costume designer .

The daughter of Marie Busse b. Sachse and the painter and hotelier Georg August Busse (1867–1947) initially worked as a draftsman and bookbinder in Berlin. She married the Hungarian journalist and photo reporter of Jewish descent János Reismann at an early age . Due to the political situation, it was no longer possible to return to Germany from a joint trip to Moscow in 1933, which is why they settled in the Soviet Union. From 1933–1938 she worked as a costume designer in Moscow and Kiev before moving to Paris in 1938, where she worked at the émigré theater. In 1940 she was arrested and interned at Camp de Rieucros in Mende, Lozère department. There were three sketchbooks with drawings of prostitutes, gypsies and other inmates. From 1941 to 1945 he stayed in various sanatoriums as a result of his imprisonment.

From 1946, Busse worked as a costume designer and head of the clothing department at the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, later as an artistic assistant and costume master at the Stuttgart State Theater . It was there that she began working with Hans-Ulrich Schmückle , whom she married in 1957. From 1958 she was a costume designer on numerous national and international stages. She took part in various exhibitions and worked with many important intendants and directors, u. a. with Boris Erdmann, Walter Felsenstein , István Kertész , Fritz Kortner , Gabor Ötvös, Erwin Piscator , Hermann Scherchen , Maxim Valentin, Helene Weigel and Manfred Wekwerth .

The artistic legacy of Sylta Busse is archived in the Sylta-Busse archive of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) .

Fonts

• With Hans-Ulrich Schmückle: theater work. A documentation. Edited by Eckehart Nölle. 1985. ISBN 3-44612017-3
• Mechthild Gilzmer: Women's internment camp in France: Rieucros and Brens / Orlandofrauenverlag ISBN 3-929823-10-1

Web links

• Sylta-Busse-Schmückle-Archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin