Ladislaus Czettel


Ladislaus Czettel was a Hungarian fashion designer, draughtsman and costume designer for stage and film.

Life

Born in Budapest, Czettel began working as a fashion designer shortly after the end of the First World War. Early activities took him from Budapest to Paris and Vienna. There he made his first contacts as a costume designer in the theatre, especially in cabarets and vaudeville. Along the way, Ladislaus Czettel also designed costumes for the first time for films. From 1923 onwards, he appeared as a costume designer for revues at the Viennese Ronacher and Berlin's Theater des Westens venues. As artistic advisor to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and its pendant in Munich, he also collaborated with Max Reinhardt, whose production of Jacques Offenbach's La belle Hélène he designed with costumes at Berlin's in 1931. In 1930, Czettel was also involved in the costume designs for the UFA film Burglars with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch.
Ostracised as a Jew in Germany in 1933, Czettel returned to Austria and continued his theatre activities in Vienna and Helen Goes to Troy. One week before his 54th birthday, Czettel committed suicide.

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