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  • Lilli Palmer as Charlotte Buff Kestner wearing a white gown with pink detailing in the 1975 film "Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns)."
    • DEFA Stiftung

    Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns)

    1975

    Costume seen on Lilli Palmer as Charlotte Buff Kestner

  • Katharina Thalbach as Lotte wearing a white gown with pink detailing in the 1976 film "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther)."
    • DEFA Stiftung

    Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther)

    1976

    Costume seen on Katharina Thalbach as Lotte

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The GDR was famously chronically strapped for cash. Luckily, that did not hinder the DEFA film company to keep on filming. As may be expected: It shows!

Like with this costume, so pared back, one can hardly pinpoint the time period it was supposed to represent. On the other hand, it was very coherently reused: It (presumably) first appeared on Martina Wilka and Lilli Palmer playing young and older Charlotte Kestner, respectively, in 1975’s Lotte in Weimar – who, Thomas Mann argued, was fellow scribe Goethe’s inspiration for his Werther’s Lotte.

So, Lotte got to wear the costume in 1976’s The Sorrows of Young Werther – where Katharina Thalbach played her. Both films were directed by Egon Günther and costumed by Christiane Dorst, who worked on a large portion of 1970 to mid-1990s 19th century set German movies.

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The GDR was famously chronically strapped for cash. Luckily, that did not hinder the DEFA film company to keep on filming. As may be expected: It shows!

Like with this costume, so pared back, one can hardly pinpoint the time period it was supposed to represent. On the other hand, it was very coherently reused: It (presumably) first appeared on Martina Wilka and Lilli Palmer playing young and older Charlotte Kestner, respectively, in 1975’s Lotte in Weimar – who, Thomas Mann argued, was fellow scribe Goethe’s inspiration for his Werther’s Lotte.

So, Lotte got to wear the costume in 1976’s The Sorrows of Young Werther – where Katharina Thalbach played her. Both films were directed by Egon Günther and costumed by Christiane Dorst, who worked on a large portion of 1970 to mid-1990s 19th century set German movies.

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The GDR was famously chronically strapped for cash. Luckily, that did not hinder the DEFA film company to keep on filming. As may be expected: It shows!

Like with this costume, so pared back, one can hardly pinpoint the time period it was supposed to represent. On the other hand, it was very coherently reused: It (presumably) first appeared on Martina Wilka and Lilli Palmer playing young and older Charlotte Kestner, respectively, in 1975’s Lotte in Weimar – who, Thomas Mann argued, was fellow scribe Goethe’s inspiration for his Werther’s Lotte.

So, Lotte got to wear the costume in 1976’s The Sorrows of Young Werther – where Katharina Thalbach played her. Both films were directed by Egon Günther and costumed by Christiane Dorst, who worked on a large portion of 1970 to mid-1990s 19th century set German movies.

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