---
name: "Esther Walz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/esther-walz"
fi1m_id: "esther-walz"
imdb_id: "nm0910639"
tmdb_id: 20079
wikidata_id: "Q69820146"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "20 December 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T19:42:07.321635+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."
---

# Esther Walz

## Identity

Esther Walz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/esther-walz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** esther-walz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0910639
- **TMDB ID:** 20079
- **Wikidata ID:** Q69820146
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69820146, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910639/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20079

Costume designer. Born 20 December 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 20 December 1958
- **Active:** 1986–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (2), 2020s 66 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 70 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 2, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $81m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69820146, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910639/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20079

## Coming up

- *The Perfect Holiday* (2026-10-22), Costume Design

## Biography

Esther Walz is a German costume designer and production designer. Born on 20 December 1958, she trained at the Academy of Jewelry Art and Parsons School of Design in New York. She made her film debut in 1980 and worked as assistant costume designer on *The Name of the Rose* (1986) and in the props department on *Wings of Desire* (1987).

Walz has designed costumes for numerous German and international productions, including *Faraway, So Close!* (1993), *Beyond the Clouds* (1995), *A Sound of Thunder* (2005), *The Elementary Particles* (2006), *Pope Joan* (2009), *The People vs. Fritz Bauer* (2015), *The Silent Revolution* (2018) and *The Conference* (2022). She won the Deutscher Filmpreis for best costume design for *The People vs. Fritz Bauer* and received further nominations for *Pope Joan*, *The Silent Revolution* and other films. She has also designed for television series such as *Barbarians* and *Furia*, and worked in theatre.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Weight* (2026), Fi1m 66, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-weight.md)
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Fi1m 88, Property Master — [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)
- *The Name of the Rose* (1986), Fi1m 77, Wardrobe Coordinator — [page](https://film.one/film/the-name-of-the-rose.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *The Perfect Holiday* (2026), Costume Design
- *The Weight* (2026), Costume Design — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-weight.md)
- *Virginia Woolf's Night & Day* (2026), Costume Design
- *Other People's Money* (2025), series, Costume Designer
- *Chantal in Fairyland* (2024), Costume Designer, Costume Design
- *Measures of Men* (2023), Costume Design
- *The Conference* (2022), Costume Design
- *Furia* (2021), series, Costume Design
- *The Silent Revolution* (2018), Costume Design
- *Renegades* (2017), Costume Design
- *Salt and Fire* (2016), Costume Design
- *The Verdict* (2016), Costume Design
- *The People vs. Fritz Bauer* (2015), Costume Design
- *Jack* (2014), Costume Design
- *Confession of a Child of the Century* (2012), Costume Design
- *The Coming Days* (2010), Costume Design
- *Hinterkaifeck - Die wahre Geschichte hinter Tannöd* (2009), Costumer
- *Pope Joan* (2009), Costume Design
- *Lulu and Jimi* (2009), Costume Design
- *The Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island* (2007), Costume Design
- *The Elementary Particles* (2006), Costume Design
- *A Sound of Thunder* (2005), Costume Design
- *Me and My Sister* (2004), Costume Design
- *Eine Liebe in Afrika* (2003), Costume Design
- *Pierre or, The Ambiguities* (2001), series, Costume Design
- *Pola X* (1999), Costume Design
- *Tykho Moon* (1996), Costume Design
- *Beyond the Clouds* (1995), Costume Design
- *Faraway, So Close!* (1993), Costume Design
- *Tiger, Löwe, Panther* (1989), Production Design
- *The Curse* (1988), Production Design
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), as Property Master — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)
- *The Name of the Rose* (1986), Wardrobe Coordinator — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-name-of-the-rose.md)

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