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name: "Herbert Strabel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/herbert-strabel"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "14 October 1927"
died: "21 October 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T05:38:27.575642+00:00"
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# Herbert Strabel

Production designer. Born 14 October 1927 in Berlin, Germany. Died 21 October 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 14 October 1927, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 21 October 2017
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Strabel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1609165, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833016/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/124457

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Cabaret*](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md) (88)

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## Biography

Herbert Strabel (14 October 1927 – 21 October 2017) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Born in Berlin, he shared the Academy Award for Best Art Direction–Set Decoration for his work on the 1972 film *Cabaret* with Rolf Zehetbauer and Hans Jürgen Kiebach.

Strabel contributed to numerous international productions, including art direction on *The Serpent's Egg* (1977), *Despair* (1978), *From the Life of the Marionettes* (1980), *Lili Marleen* (1981), *The NeverEnding Story* (1984) and *Enemy Mine* (1985). He also worked as set decorator on *Brass Target* (1978) and received an Emmy nomination for art direction on the 1982 television film *Inside the Third Reich*.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cabaret* (1972), Fi1m 88, Production Design, Set Dresser, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Enemy Mine* (1985), as Art Direction
- *The NeverEnding Story* (1984), as Art Direction
- *Wunderland* (1983), Set Designer
- *Ace of Aces* (1982), as Set Decoration
- *Lili Marleen* (1981), as Art Direction
- *From the Life of the Marionettes* (1980), as Art Direction
- *The First Polka* (1979), Production Design
- *Son of Hitler* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Brass Target* (1978), as Art Direction
- *Despair* (1978), as Art Direction
- *The Serpent's Egg* (1977), as Art Direction
- *White King* (1975), as Art Direction
- *Der Fliegende Holländer* (1975), Set Designer
- *Eine Nacht in Venedig* (1974), Production Design
- *Alle Menschen werden Brüder* (1973), Production Design
- *Cry of the Black Wolves* (1972), as Set Decoration
- *Cabaret* (1972), Production Design, Set Dresser — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md)
- *Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious* (1965), as Art Direction
- *The Nutcracker* (1964), as Art Direction
- *Meine Tochter und ich* (1963), as Art Direction
- *Orden für die Wunderkinder* (1963), as Art Direction
- *Er kann's nicht lassen* (1962), as Art Direction
- *Murder Party* (1961), Production Design
- *Enchanting Arabella* (1959), as Painter

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1973: Best Production Design (won), for *Cabaret*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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