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Moidele Bickel (6 March 1937 – 16 May 2016) was a German
costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...
. She has received various accolades, including a 
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 and a 
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, in addition to a nomination for an 
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.


Career

Bickel was born and raised in
Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
, Bavaria. She began her career creating costumes for various productions at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt. Then she moved to Berlin in 1970 and started frequent collaborations with renowned director Peter Stein on his numerous theater and opera productions, a partnership that lasted for 22 years. They first worked together at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer before relocating to the newly renovated venue at
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz The (Theatre on Lehniner Square) is a famous theatre in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, located on the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. It is a conversion of the ''Universum'' cinema, built according to plans designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 1928 ...
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 attained a great deal of acclaim and received the
BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design The BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards to recognize a designer who has delivered outstanding costume design in a film. ...
for
Éric Rohmer Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (; 21 March 192011 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the Post-war, p ...
's
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film ''
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'' (1976) and a nomination for the
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for another period piece, 
Patrice Chéreau Patrice Chéreau (; ; 2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films '' La Reine Margot'' and ''I ...
's '' Queen Margot'' (1994).


Awards and nominations


Death and legacy

Bickel died on 16 May 2016, at the age of 79 at her home in Berlin.


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* 1937 births 2016 deaths Best Costume Design BAFTA Award winners German costume designers Women costume designers {{Germany-film-bio-stub