---
name: "Katrin Aschendorf"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katrin-aschendorf"
fi1m_id: "katrin-aschendorf"
imdb_id: "nm0038492"
tmdb_id: 20612
wikidata_id: "Q95754370"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T18:18:44.271024+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."
---

# Katrin Aschendorf

## Identity

Katrin Aschendorf

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/katrin-aschendorf
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** katrin-aschendorf
- **IMDb ID:** nm0038492
- **TMDB ID:** 20612
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95754370
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95754370, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038492/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20612

Costume designer. Born in Hamburg, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95754370, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038492/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20612

## Coming up

- *Ghost Song* (2026-11-05), Costume Design

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Head-On*](https://film.one/film/head-on.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Katrin Aschendorf is a German costume designer born in Hamburg. She trained in costume work at the theatre, including at the Kulturzentrum Kampnagel in Hamburg, and began in wardrobe and assistant roles in the 1990s before taking on full costume design credits on television episodes and films from the early 2000s.

She is best known for her long collaboration with director Fatih Akin, beginning with *Head-On* (2004, also known as *Gegen die Wand*). Subsequent credits with him include *The Edge of Heaven* (2007), *Soul Kitchen* (2009), *In the Fade* (2017) and *Rhinegold* (2022). Other notable film work includes *Kebab Connection* (2004), *The Door* (2009), *The Cut* (2014) and *The Golden Glove* (2019).

Aschendorf has received Deutscher Filmpreis nominations for best costume design on *The Cut* and *The Golden Glove*. She has also designed costumes for numerous television productions and stage works.

*Sources: imdb.com, crew-united.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Head-On* (2004), Fi1m 72, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/head-on.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Ghost Song* (2026), Costume Design
- *Ein Sommer in Sommerby* (2025), Costume Design
- *Rhinegold* (2022), Costume Design
- *Alles auf Rot* (2021), Costume Design
- *Gipsy Queen* (2019), Costume Design
- *Tage des letzten Schnees* (2019), Costume Design
- *The Golden Glove* (2019), Costume Design
- *In the Fade* (2017), Costume Design
- *Schwarzbrot in Thailand* (2017), Costume Design
- *Letters to Amina* (2017), Costume Designer
- *The Cut* (2014), Costume Design
- *Lovely Louise* (2013), Costume Design
- *Die Kirche bleibt im Dorf* (2012), Costume Design
- *Reiff für die Insel - Neubeginn* (2012), Costume Designer
- *Nord Nord Mord* (2011), series, Costume Design
- *Residual Risk* (2011), Costume Design
- *Fasten à la Carte* (2010), Costume Design
- *The Door* (2009), Costume Design
- *The Edge of Heaven* (2007), Costume Design
- *Die Diebin & der General* (2005), Costume Design
- *Girl Overboard* (2005), Costume Designer
- *Kebab Connection* (2004), Costume Design
- *Head-On* (2004), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/head-on.md)

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