Conversation with Birgit Hutter
Birgit Hutter studied painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Art Students League in New York. After receiving her degree in set and costume design from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, she continued her studies in theater arts. Since the 1970s, Hutter has worked internationally as a costume and set designer for film and TV as well as theater, the latter in Vienna, Hamburg, and Berlin, among other places. She has worked with film directors including John Malkovich, Uli Edel, Urs Egger, Michael Verhoeven, Raúl Ruiz, Roger Spottiswoode, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Luc Bondy, Peter Patzak, Oliver Hirschbiegel, and Axel Corti.Hutter is a founding member of the Austrian FilmdesignersAssociation and has received many prizes, including the 1988 German Film Award for Das weite Land (1987, Luc Bondy). In 2015, she was nominated for an American Costume Designers Guild Award for her work on Houdini (2014, Uli Edel) and in 2017, she was the first costume designer to receive the Platinum Romy Award for her life's work. (A.P.)
Birgit Hutter in conversation with Anna Zeitlhuber, who has worked in the costume department for the past 15 years. In 2012, she met Hutter at the Volkstheater while doing her first internship. Since 2019, Zeitlhuber has worked as a costume designer for film and TV. Popular projects of hers include the Sky series Der Pass (2019-2023), the Netflix production Exterritorial (2023), and the Netflix series Totenfrau (2022-2025).
Conversation with Birgit Hutter and Anna Zeitlhuber
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