---
name: "Monika Jacobs"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/monika-jacobs"
fi1m_id: "monika-jacobs"
imdb_id: "nm0414559"
tmdb_id: 1080
wikidata_id: "Q95209974"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "29 April 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T15:30:53.754819+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."
---

# Monika Jacobs

## Identity

Monika Jacobs

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/monika-jacobs
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** monika-jacobs
- **IMDb ID:** nm0414559
- **TMDB ID:** 1080
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95209974
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95209974, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414559/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1080

Costume designer. Born 29 April 1946.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 29 April 1946
- **Active:** 1987–2011
- **Frequently works with:** [Franka Potente](https://film.one/person/franka-potente.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 82 (1), 2010s 77 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, Fantasy 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1, War & Politics 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $11m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95209974, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414559/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1080

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Wings of Desire*](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md) (88)
- **Disney+:** [*Run Lola Run*](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md) (82)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Sinking of the Laconia*](https://film.one/tv/the-sinking-of-the-laconia.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Monika Jacobs is a German costume designer. Born on 29 April 1946, she completed an apprenticeship as a dressmaker before studying at art academies in Vienna and Berlin. She began working in theatre and from 1977 also designed costumes for film and television.

Her credits include Rainer Werner Fassbinder's *Querelle* (1982), Wim Wenders' *Wings of Desire* (1987) and several films by Tom Tykwer, beginning with *Deadly Maria* (1993) and continuing with *Run Lola Run* (1998), *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000) and *Heaven* (2002). Other notable work encompasses *The Last Station* (2009) and *Night Train to Lisbon* (2013). She received a German Film Award nomination in 2011 for *Lessons of a Dream*.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Sinking of the Laconia* (2011), Fi1m 77, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sinking-of-the-laconia.md)
- *Run Lola Run* (1998), Fi1m 82, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Fi1m 88, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *The Interpreter of Silence* (2023), series, Costume Design
- *The Master Butcher* (2019), Costume Design
- *Night Train to Lisbon* (2013), Costume Design
- *Lessons of a Dream* (2011), Costume Design
- *The Sinking of the Laconia* (2011), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sinking-of-the-laconia.md)
- *The Last Station* (2009), Costume Design
- *Heaven* (2002), Costume Design
- *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), Costume Design
- *Run Lola Run* (1998), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)
- *Das schafft die nie* (1994), Costume Design
- *Te Rua* (1991), Costume Design
- *Cinderella* (1989), Costume Designer
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Costume Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)
- *Querelle* (1982), Costume Designer
- *Veronika Voss* (1982), Costume Assistant
- *Berlin Alexanderplatz* (1980), series, Costume Assistant

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