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Dorothea “Mopsa” Sternheim (born Elisabeth Dorothea Löwenstein 10 January 1905 in Oberkassel - 11 September 1954 Paris ) was a German set designer , costume designer and resistance fighter in France. In the 1920s, before emigrating to Paris, she designed costumes and sets for plays by Carl Sternheim and Klaus Mann . Because of her membership in the Resistance , she was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Dorothea Löwenstein's parents were the playwright Carl Sternheim (1878–1942) and the writer Thea Sternheim (1883–1971), Mopsa Sternheim studied drawing at the Dresden Art Academy in 1923 . In 1924 she began an apprenticeship as a costume and set designer at the Cologne Theater .[1]

This may be useful: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopsa_Sternheim

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  1. ^ "Mopsa Sternheim". www.fembio.org (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-01.