Tabea Blumenschein

Tabea Blumenschein (11 August 1952 – 2 March 2020) was a German painter, actress, film director, screenwriter, costume/set designer and musician.Blumenschein was born in Konstanz. She studied art at Kunstschule Konstanz and moved to Berlin in 1973. She starred in 5 films by Ulrike Ottinger. She designed the collection "Big Birds" for Berlin Knitweardesigner Claudia Skoda which was presented at Berlin Kongresshalle in 1979. She was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis in Gold 1981 for her Setdesign for the Film "Looping". She collaborated with the performance art and music group Die Tödliche Doris and recorded with Gudrun Gut, Bettina Koester, Frieder Butzmann, and with Die Dominas. Blumenschein died in Berlin, aged 67.