---
name: "Aenne Willkomm"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/aenne-willkomm"
fi1m_id: "aenne-willkomm"
imdb_id: "nm0932523"
tmdb_id: 20536
wikidata_id: "Q19973540"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "17 June 1902"
died: "20 June 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:23:01.178976+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Aenne Willkomm

## Identity

Aenne Willkomm

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aenne-willkomm
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** aenne-willkomm
- **IMDb ID:** nm0932523
- **TMDB ID:** 20536
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19973540
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aenne_Willkomm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19973540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932523/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20536

Costume designer. Born 17 June 1902 in Shanghai, China. Died 20 June 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 17 June 1902, Shanghai, China
- **Died:** 20 June 1979
- **Also known as:** Änne Willkomm
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aenne_Willkomm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19973540, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932523/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20536

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Metropolis*](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) (87)

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## Biography

Aenne Willkomm, also credited as Änne Willkomm, was a German costume designer. She was born on 17 June 1902 in Shanghai, China, and died on 20 June 1979 in Hamburg, Germany.

She trained as a fashion illustrator at the Lette-Verein in Berlin. Producer Erich Pommer brought her to film in 1922. Her first assignment was designing costumes with Heinrich Umlauff for Fritz Lang's *Die Nibelungen* (1924). She later headed UFA's costume department and worked on *Metropolis* (1927), *Mein Leopold* (1924), *Schwester Veronika* (1926) and *Der Katzensteg* (1927).

Willkomm retired from film after 1927 or 1928 and married production designer Erich Kettelhut, with whom she had collaborated on the Lang films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Metropolis* (1927), Fi1m 87, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Cat's Bridge* (1927), Costume Design
- *Schwester Veronica* (1927), Costume Design
- *Metropolis* (1927), Costume Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)
- *Die Nibelungen: Siegfried* (1924), Costume Design

## Gallery

- ![Grabstätte des deutschen Bühnenbildners und Firmarchitekten Erich Kettelhut auf dem Hamburger Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Planquadrat H 8 (südwestlich Rosengarten nahe B (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/104069/gallery-1d9f2f0897e0.jpg) Grabstätte des deutschen Bühnenbildners und Firmarchitekten Erich Kettelhut auf dem Hamburger Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Planquadrat H 8 (südwestlich Rosengarten nahe B (2019) — Vitavia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Grab_Erich_Kettelhut_FriedhofOhlsdorf_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Grab_Erich_Kettelhut_FriedhofOhlsdorf_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Grabstätte des deutschen Bühnenbildners und Firmarchitekten Erich Kettelhut auf dem Hamburger Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Planquadrat H 8 (südwestlich Rosengarten nahe B (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/104069/gallery-4483ddb6fd07.jpg) Grabstätte des deutschen Bühnenbildners und Firmarchitekten Erich Kettelhut auf dem Hamburger Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Planquadrat H 8 (südwestlich Rosengarten nahe B (2019) — Vitavia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Grab_Erich_Kettelhut_FriedhofOhlsdorf_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Grab_Erich_Kettelhut_FriedhofOhlsdorf_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Grabstätte Erich Kettelhut 2020](https://film.one/media/person/104069/gallery-80e97b4fba95.jpg) Grabstätte Erich Kettelhut 2020 — Bernhard Diener, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Grabst%C3%A4tte_Erich_Kettelhut_2020.jpg/1280px-Grabst%C3%A4tte_Erich_Kettelhut_2020.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Grabstein von Änne Kettelhut im Garten der Frauen auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf in Hamburg (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/104069/gallery-347fa4e3abee.jpg) Grabstein von Änne Kettelhut im Garten der Frauen auf dem Friedhof Ohlsdorf in Hamburg (2022) — Rita Bake, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/%C3%84nne_Kettelhut.jpg/1280px-%C3%84nne_Kettelhut.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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