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Willkomm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aenne Willkomm (1902–1979), later Aenne Kettelhut, German costume designer * Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821–1895), German academic and botanist * Katharina Willkomm (Katharina Kloke, born 1987), German lawyer and politician {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aenne Willkomm
Aenne Willkomm (17 June 1902 – 20 June 1979), later Aenne Kettelhut, was a German costume designer, born in Shanghai. She worked in German silent films in the 1920s, including as costume designer on ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' (1927). Early life Willkomm was born in Shanghai to European parents in 1902. Career Willkomm worked in the fashion industry before she worked with designer Heinrich Umlauff on Fritz Lang's two-part film epic, ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924). She became head of UFA GmbH, UFA-GmbH's costuming department on the strength of her work on that first assignment. She went on to work with Lang on ''Metropolis'', for which she designed and oversaw "literally thousands" of Bauhaus-inspired "futuristic" costumes, including for the film's main character, Maschinenmensch, Maria, played by Brigitte Helm. She often clashed with the demanding Lang on the set of ''Metropolis''. She worked on a few other films, including ''My Leopold (1924 film), My Leopold'' (1924 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (29 June 1821, Herwigsdorf – 26 August 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German botanist who served as a professor of botany at Tharandt, the University of Dorpat and at the University of Prague. He travelled widely across Spain and Portugal and became a specialist on the flora of the Iberian region. Life and work Willkomm was born in Herwigsdorf where his father Karl Gottlob was a theologian and Protestant pastor. After studies at the parsonage of his father he went to the Zittau Gymnasium. A meeting with Julius Christian von Flotow in 1836 made him interested in botany. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1841 and here he was influenced by Gustav Kunze. He was prosecuted in 1844 and forced to leave Leipzig due to his associations with the Burschenschaft. With Kunze's support he travelled around Spain and Portugal, collecting plants which were edited and distributed in an exsiccata series by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
