My hats:

I design and make small ranges of ready-to-wear hats as well as one-off pieces. like traditional hat making techniques where the hat is formed over locks, mine are mainly constructed from flat materials.

Working with the material rather than against it; I use fabrics, ribbons or cords made from cotton, silk, wool, sinamay, plastic, fake fur and woven steel thread.

I attempt to design hats that are extravagant but wearable. A hat is not aesthetically independent of the face but also complimentary.

Together, hat and person can blossom.

My Costumes:

In the last years I have been designing costumes for the Shakespeare Festival at the Rosenburg Castle in Austria.

This opportunity has offered me the creative freedom to explore my interests in the history of clothes within the context of theatrical fantasy.

C.V.:

Born in Salzgitter, Lower-Saxonia, Germany

1982-1992, Study of History/Art History/German literature in Berlin; dissertation: Fashion in the Third Reich.

1992-1995, Self employed designer, Member Applied Art Association of Berlin, exhibited (AKBB, since 2004).

1996-2001, Exhibited at the Frankfurt Fair AMBIENTE and TENDENCE.
(Selected for merit in 96, 97, 98 and 99)

1996: exhibited at various craft fairs in
Berlin, Bochum, Hamburg, Hannover, Kassel, Kopenhagen, Potsdam, Stuttgart, Weyern, München, Rotterdam

1998, 2000, 2002, 2003:
Exhibited at GRASSI MESSE, Leipzig

2003: Workshop in London.

since 2004:
Costume design for the Shakespeare Festval on the Rosenburg, Austria,
-> Hamlet in 2004,
-> Taming of the Shrew in 2005,
-> Much ado about nothing in 2006,
-> Twelfth Night in 2007
-> The Merchant of Venice in 2008 and
-> A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2009
-> Romeo and Julia in 2010
-> Othello in 2011
(see Shakespeare auf der Rosenburg ).

• Handwerksform Hannover,
  62. Weihnachtsschau,
  Kunst-Handwerk-Design, ,
  November 26 - Dezember 19, 2011,
  Handwerksform Hannover,
  Berliner Allee 17, Hannover
  (www.handwerksform.de)
• Zeughausmesse, Decorative Arts Fair ,
  December 08 - 12, 2011,
  Deutsches Historisches Museum,
  Schlüterhof im Zeughaus,
  Unter den Linden 2, Berlin.
  (www.zeughausmesse.de)
• Origin, The London Craft Fair,
  Crafts Council Exhibition,
  23-29 September 2010
  Old Spitalfields Market
  London, E1 6EW
  Stand number: M21
  (see http://www.originuk.org)
• The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
  at Spinningfields
  21-24 October 2010
  Great Northern Events
  23 Belfield Rd
  Didsbury
  Manchester
  M20 6BJ
  (see: http://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk)
• Grassimesse
  Leipzig 2010
  Trade Fair for
  Applied Art and Design
  29-31 Oktober 2010
  GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts
  Johannisplatz 5-11,
  04103 Leipzig
  (http://www.grassimesse.de)
• LUSTRE 2010
  Lakeside, Nottingham
  13+14 November 2010
  DH LAWRENCE PAVILION & DJANOGLY ART GALLERY
  LAKESIDE ARTS CENTRE
  University of Nottingham
  (http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Crafts/LUSTRE/Lustre-2010.html)
• Zeughausmesse, Decorative Arts Fair,
  April 15 - 18, 2010
  Deutsches Historisches Museum,
  Schlüterhof im Zeughaus,
  Unter den Linden 2, Berlin.
  (www.zeughausmesse.de)
• Shakespeare festival Rosenburg Austria,
  2010 (premiere Fr., Juli 2):
  Romeo and Juliet
  (www.shakespeare-festspiele.at)
• Handwerksform Hannover,
  60. Weihnachtsschau,
  Kunst-Handwerk-Design, ,
  November 28 - December 20 2009,
  Handwerksform Hannover,
  Berliner Allee 17, Hannover
  (www.handwerksform.de)
• Origin, The London Craft Fair, Crafts Council Exhibition, 6-11 October 2009
  (first week only, stand number G9);
  Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA.
  (see: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/origin)
• Hereford Contemporary Craft Fair 2009,
  13-15 Nov. 2009,
  Courtyard Centre for the Arts, Edgar Street, Hereford (see http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/craftfair)
• Selvedge Magazine,
  Issue 19, Sep/Oct 2007, page 15.
  (http://www.selvedge.org/default.aspx)
• Die Hutgalerie in Frankfurt,
  Ruth Rabenhaupt-Klein, Sandweg 62,
  60316 Frankfurt (http://www.hutgalerie.com).
• FiLZFAKTOR!, Joschka Pauleschitz, Neubaugasse 11, Wien. (www.filzfaktor.at)
• Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein e.V., Galerie für angewandte Kunst München. (www.kunsthandwerk-bkv.de)
• Galerie Vahinger Radolfzell Intermezzo, 19.-21.11.2004. (www.galerievahinger.de)
• Frau mit Hut (www.frau-mit-hut.de)