Apr 9, 2025
This costume (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. Learn more about this costume at: Bit.ly/StuGeo158