Costume design
Wernigerode Fulda

Biography

For almost forty years, Irms Pauli designed costumes for film and television. She participated in over 200 productions and was one of the most industrious woman working in the German film business. She started her career as an assistant for Erna Sander on Wolfgang Staudte"s "Schicksal aus zweiter Hand". In 1953, she helmed the costume department for the first time in Géza von Cziffra"s "Das singende Hotel". In the 1950s, she worked on the then-popular musicals and comedies as well as on the numerous WWII dramas which coincided with the rearmament of West-Germany. She also emulated a distinctively British look for nine films in the immensely successful Edgar Wallace series.

Her costume designs for the adaptations of Karl May"s Western novels became nothing less than iconic for a whole generation of movie audiences. In the 1960s, she worked on Harald Reinl"s monumental "Die Nibelungen" and Robert Siodmak"s equally lavish "Kampf um Rom" ("The Fight For Rome"), with both films featuring several thousand extras who needed to be dressed in period costumes. In the 1970s, she chose the wardrobe for the "Jerry Cotton" series and high-profile literary adaptations. From 1961 on, she also worked in television, providing an authentic and often meticulously researched look for seminal productions like "Die Pawlaks" (1982). During the shooting of the TV series "Mit Leib und Leben" in 1988, Irms Pauli died in a car accident.

 

Filmography

1987
  • Costume design
1984/1985
  • Costume design
1982
  • Costume design
1982
  • Costume design
1980
  • Costume design
1980
  • Costume design
1978
  • Costume design
1979
  • Costume design
1978
  • Costume design
1978
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1976/1977
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1975
  • Costume design
1976
  • Costume design
1968/1976
  • Costume design
1975/1976
  • Costume design
1975
  • Costume design
1973/1974
  • Costume design
1973/1974
  • Costume design
1972/1973
  • Costume design
1973
  • Costume design
1972
  • Costume design
1972
  • Costume design
1971
  • Costume design
1971
  • Costume design
1970/1971
  • Costume design
1970/1971
  • Costume design
1970
  • Costume design
1969/1970
  • Costume design
1968/1969
  • Costume design
1968/1969
  • Costume design
1968
  • Costume design
1967/1968
  • Costume design
1968
  • Costume design
1967/1968
  • Costume design
1968
  • Costume design
1966/1967
  • Costume design
1967
  • Costume design
1967
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1966
  • Costume design
1965
  • Costume design
1965
  • Costume design
1965
  • Costume design
1965
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1965
  • Costume design
1965
  • Costume design
1965
  • Costume design
1964
  • Costume design
1964
  • Costume design
1964
  • Costume design
1963/1964
  • Costume design
1963/1964
  • Costume design
1962/1963
  • Costume design
1963
  • Costume design
1963
  • Costume design
1963
  • Costume design
1962
  • Costume design
1961
  • Costume design
1961
  • Costume design
1961
  • Costume design
1960
  • Costume design
1960
  • Costume design
1960
  • Costume design
1959/1960
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1959
  • Costume design
1958/1959
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1959
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1959
  • Costume design
1959
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1958
  • Costume design
1958
  • Costume design
1958
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1958
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1957
  • Costume design
1957
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1957
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1957
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1956
  • Costume design
1956
  • Costume design
1956
  • Costume design
1956
  • Costume design
1955
  • Costume design
1955
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1954
  • Costume design
1954
  • Costume design
1954
  • Costume design
1953
  • Costume design
1953
  • Costume design
1953
  • Costume design
1952
  • Costume design
1950/1951
  • Costume design
1951
  • Costume design
1949/1950
  • Costume design
1949
  • Costume design
1949
  • Costume design