ABOUT
Sibylle Ulsamer was born in Munich, Germany, on 22 May 1939.
She studied and graduated in Historical Cut and as Costume Designer in Cologne (Werkschulen) and Düsseldorf, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts with Master Theo Otto for Stage Design.
She graduated with a “Master of Fine Arts” in silversmithing and jewellery design at the Indiana University, USA, with Prof. Alma Eikerman.
After several years of professional activities as assistant to Costume Departments in Cologne, at the National Opera Theatre of Munich, at the Festival of Salzburg and Recklinghausen, and as free-lance costume designer in Germany, she accepted the invitation to work at the “Piccolo Teatro” of Milan with the famous Strehler-Damiani artistic alliance, as director of the Wardrobe Department.
This lead her to the decision to continue the activity in Italy, especially in intense collaboration with Master Luciano Damiani, with whom she worked for many years, alternating the activity as costume designer and stage designer between Italy and the rest of Europe. Her work also included fashion design and stage design projects, and costume making with directors and stage designers of international renown at the main theatres.
Her personal repertoire goes from classic Greek to contemporary theatre, through opera, drama, ballet, cinema and television.
She received the important EMMY award (the Oscar award for television) for the mini-series “Peter the Great” from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, LA, USA.
She managed the Costume Deaprtement of the Opera Theatre of Rome and that of the Institution of the “Arena di Verona”/Philharmonic Theatre.
She also organized specific training courses of Historical Cut and Costume Design for the regional authority of Emilia-Romagna in cooperation with the ‘Teatro Regio’ of Parma, of Tuscany (workshop on Classic Drama, University of Siena), as well as Campania: Benevento “Techne” and Salerno “FormArt Lavoro”.
She organized exhibitions such as “La Bandiera Argento”, Cava de’ Tirreni, or the personal exhibition of Mathew Spender, sculptor, in Villa Rufolo, or the painter Maro Gorky, in Badia di Cava.
She worked as a teacher in costume design, and organized practice workshops on the creation of historical costumes.