Moidele Bickel
Moidele Bickel (6 March 1937 – 16 May 2016) was a German costume designer. She has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a César Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
Moidele Bickel
- Name
- Moidele Bickel
- Born
- 6 March 1937
- Birthplace
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Died
- 16 May 2016
- Place of death
- Berlin, Germany
- Occupation
- Costume designer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Fields
- opera
- Honours
- César Award for Best Costume Design · German Film Award for Best Costume Design
- Languages
- German
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Moidele Bickel (6 March 1937 – 16 May 2016) was a German costume designer. She has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award and a César Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
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• Name — Moidele Bickel • Other Names — Bernadette Vilard • Born — 6 March 1937 • Birthplace — Munich, Bavaria, Germany • Died — 16 May 2016 • Place of death — Berlin, Germany • Occupation — Costume designer • Years Active — 1972–2016
Career
Career
Bickel was born and raised in Munich, Bavaria. She began her career creating costumes for various productions at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt. In 1970, she moved to Berlin and began frequent collaboration with renowned director Peter Stein on his many theater and opera productions, a partnership that lasted 22 years. They first worked together at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer before relocating to the newly renovated venue at Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in 1981. Beside her work on various stage designs, Bickel was known for her extensive career in German as well as international film productions. In particular, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design for Éric Rohmer's historical drama film The Marquise of O (1976) and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for another period piece, Patrice Chéreau's Queen Margot (1994).
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Moidele Bickel is recorded as having received César Award for Best Costume Design and German Film Award for Best Costume Design.
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1937
Moidele Bickel born at Munich.
2016
Moidele Bickel died at Berlin.
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Bickel died on 16 May 2016, at the age of 79 at her home in Berlin.
Awards and nominations
• Association — Year — Category — Work — Result — Ref. • Academy Awards — 1995 — Best Costume Design — Queen Margot • British Academy Film Awards — 1977 — Best Costume Design — The Marquise of O • César Awards — 1995 — Best Costume Design — La Reine Margot • David di Donatello Awards — 1995 — Best Costumes • German Film Awards — 2010 — Best Costume Design — The White Ribbon
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