Ursula Welter (costume designer)
Ursula "Uschi" Welter ( July 29, 1946 - January 29, 2010 ) was a German costume and set designer .
Life
Ursula Welter already painted costume designs as a little girl. In Kassel she did an apprenticeship as a tailor. At the end of the 1960s she moved to Berlin and studied stage and costume design. She lived in a shared apartment on Wielandstrasse, worked at the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer and frequented the “ jungle ” and SO36 . The theater was her great love, her best friend was Frank Herterich.
She became known in 1979 with her work on the film Shadow Limit by Wolf Gremm . In the early 1980s she moved to Munich . Her favorite director was Jo Baier , for whom she worked in 1996 on the production of the television film The Most Beautiful Day in Life . She dressed actors like Monica Bleibtreu , Katharina Thalbach , Barbara Sukowa and Hannah Herzsprung . In addition to her love for her job, she was worried that she would get fewer jobs.
Already seriously ill, she appeared at her friends' openings and premieres. At her request, she ended her hospital stay and died at home on January 29, 2010. In April 2010, Uschi Welter was posthumously nominated for the German Film Prize.
Trivia
She attentively brought small gifts to her clients and friends.
Filmography
- Production design
- 1975: Ties for the Olympics
- Costumes
- 1978: Cold home
- 1978: material rank
- 1979: shadow border
- 1981: Don Quixote's children
- 1981: After midnight
- 1983: The flambéed woman
- 1988: Pizza Express
- 1991: super jam
- 1991: Forever young
- 1992: Gudrun
- 1992: My daughter is mine
- 1993: Mr. Bluesman
- 1993: Dance of Death
- 1994: Deadly Net
- 1995: Man (s) looking for a woman
- 1996: the best day in life
- 1996: Greenhorn
- 1998: The store (three-part)
- 1999: Long Hello and Short Goodbye
- 2000: tough guys
- 2000: school
- 2002: What's the matter with my men?
- 2002: Police call 110 - Silicone Walli
- 2002: Pommery and turkey breast
- 2003: The miracle of Bern
- 2003: The Class of '99 - School was yesterday, life is now
- 2004: The Wish Tree (three-part)
- 2004: Stauffenberg
- 2005: Once as I want
- 2005: Schiller
- 2005: Pommery and wedding cake
- 2006: Pommery and funeral feast
- 2006: The robber Hotzenplotz
- 2006: Father Undercover - On behalf of the family
- 2007: The star chef
- 2007: Mr. Bello
- 2008: patchwork
- 2008: Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin
- 2008: in one fell swoop
- 2008: Crime Scene - Bunny in the Pit
- 2009: Vision - From the life of Hildegard von Bingen
literature
- Film and Television Design Annual '93 / '94. Yearbook of the Association of Production Designers, Film Architects and Costume Designers - SFK Association. 7th year 1993/94. P. 200.
Web links
- Ursula Welter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film and Television Design Annual '93 / '94, p. 200
- ↑ Ursula Welter at filmportal.de
- ↑ Susanne Kippenberger: Obituaries - Ursula Welter (born 1946) , Der Tagesspiegel from April 23, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welter, Ursula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Welter, Uschi (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German costume and production designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1946 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2010 |