About

Vita

Die gebürtige Hamburgerin Jula Reindell lebt als selbstständige Kostüm- und Bühnenbildnerin in Bad Kreuznach.  Ihre Ausbildung zur Kostüm- und Modedesignerin hat sie an der Hochschule Pforzheim mit dem Diplom, sowie an dem London College of Fashion mit ihrem „Master of Arts- Fashion Design and Technology“, absolviert. Ihre Masterarbeit wurde mit dem „Bayerischen Staatspreis für junge Modedesigner 2008“ ausgezeichnet.

Sie sammelte vor, während und nach ihrem Studium Erfahrungen in verschiedenen Häusern, wie dem Staatstheater Mainz, der Wiener Oper und dem Theater Dortmund, wo sie zwei Spielzeiten als feste Kostümassistentin in den Bereichen Oper und Ballett arbeitete. Während dieser Zeit entwarf sie erste Kostüm- und Bühnenbilder für verschiedene Stücke. Unter anderem entstand ein Projekt mit dem Künstlerpaar Lundahl&Seitl, welches in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, im Stadtmuseum Berlin, im Nationalmuseum von Stockholm und bei den Salzburger Festspielen erfolgreich aufgeführt wurde. Weitere Stücke folgten für das Ballett Dortmund, unter der Leitung von Xin Peng Wang, für Benjamin Millepied und für das Kinder- und Jugendtheater Dortmund. 

Ihr Kostümentwurf »Im Weissen Rössl« für das Luzerner Theater wurde für den Prix Juste-au-Corps 2012 nominiert. Seitdem entwirft sie regelmäßig Kostümbilder für den Choreographen Stéphen Delattre an den Kammerspielen Mainz. Eine enge Zusammenarbeit verbindet sie mit dem Bühnenbildner und Regisseur Michiel Dijkema und der Regisseurin Sonja Trebes. 

Sie sammelte ebenfalls in umfangreichem Maße Erfahrung im Ausland. So lebte sie für zweieinhalb Jahre in London, wo sie dem Londoner Modedesigner Hussein Chalayan, der für seine künstlerische und konzeptionelle Arbeiten bekannt ist, bei mehreren Kollektionen assistierte. Ihr Beruf führte sie aber auch immer wieder nach Asien. Als Kind lebte sie bereits fünf Jahre lang mit ihren Eltern auf den Philippinen. Während ihres Praxissemesters machte sie ein siebenmonatiges Praktikum in Bangkok, bei „Studio Léa“. Dort lernte sie alles über Seide, unter anderen auch über deren Herstellung, kennen. Zwischen 2010 und 2014 unterrichtet sie für einige Wochen im Jahr regelmäßig als Dozentin an der Modeuniversität CIDI in Bangkok. 

Seit 2020 hat sie einen Lehrauftrag inne an der Modedesignschule Manuel Fritz in Mannheim.

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Originally from Hamburg, Jula Reindell works as a freelance costume and set designer in Bad Kreuznach.
She completed her training in costume and fashion design at Pforzheim University with a diploma, and at the London College of Fashion, where she earned a Master of Arts in Fashion Design and Technology. Her master’s thesis was awarded the Bavarian State Prize for Young Fashion Designers in 2008.

Before, during, and after her studies, she gained experience at various institutions such as the Staatstheater Mainz, the Vienna State Opera, and Theater Dortmund, where she worked for two seasons as a permanent costume assistant in the fields of opera and ballet. During this time, she created her first costume and set designs for various productions. Among other projects, she collaborated with the artist duo Lundahl & Seitl on a piece that was successfully presented at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Stadtmuseum Berlin, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and the Salzburg Festival.

Further productions followed for Ballett Dortmund under the direction of Xin Peng Wang, for Benjamin Millepied, and for the Children’s and Youth Theater Dortmund.
Her costume design for “Im Weißen Rössl” at the Lucerne Theater was nominated for the Prix Juste-au-Corps in 2012. Since then, she has regularly created costume designs for choreographer Stéphen Delattre at the Kammerspiele Mainz. She also maintains a close working relationship with set designer and director Michiel Dijkema, and with director Sonja Trebes.

She has also gained extensive international experience. She lived in London for two and a half years, where she assisted London-based fashion designer Hussein Chalayan — known for his artistic and conceptual work — on several collections. Her profession has also taken her to Asia on multiple occasions. As a child, she lived in the Philippines for five years with her parents. During her practical semester, she completed a seven-month internship in Bangkok at Studio Léa, where she learned everything about silk, including its production.

From 2010 to 2014, she regularly taught for several weeks each year as a lecturer at the fashion university CIDI in Bangkok. Since 2020, she has held a teaching position at the Manuel Fritz Fashion Design School in Mannheim.

2012 -2024

2010 – 2012

Jula worked from February to April 2011 as a tutor in pattern cutting and illustration at CIDI-Chanapatana International Design Institute in Bangkok.  After that she worked as permanent costume assistant at Theatre Dortmund and was in charge of large opera and ballet stage plays, such as Hamlet, Swan Lake, as well as guest pieces by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Christian Spuck and Mauro Bigonzetti. She assisted important Opera pieces such as the Flying Dutchman, Norma, Così fan tutte.During this period she was allowed to design her own costumes for Theatre Dortmund. Therefore a ballet evening, Identities, was created using her costumes and décor that the ballet director Xin Peng Wang had choreographed. Furthermore the ballet stage play Sarabande by Benjamin Millepied and the costume design for the first co-production of the Young Opera and the Young Theatre Dortmund was successfully developed.
In addition she created costumes for the family musical Alice in Wonderland for an open air theatre in Coesfeld, Germany. On the occasion of Kleist Year 2011 she designed and made a costume and room installation for the double exhibition Kleist: Crisis and Experiment at the Ephraim Palais, Berlin.  Costumes for The White Horse Inn were designed by her for Theatre Luzern and was nominated for Prix Juste-au-Corps 2012. Since the summer of 2012 she has worked as a freelance costume designer based in Mainz and has worked successfully as a production organizer for the big ballet piece Dream of the Red Chamber by Xin Peng Wang.

2006 – 2009

An internship at the Vienna costume studio Art for Art gave her the opportunity to work for the Vienna Opera and to assist in the two big operas Madame Butterfly and Moses and Aron. She went on to receive a scholarship from ASA and went to live and work at Almaty in Kazakhstan. Her task was to organise and teach traditional felt makers how to design and develop felted products. Referring to this local market research, an autumn-winter collection of scarves and cuffs developed together. After her stay in Kazakhstan she moved to London to study her Masters in fashion design and technology at London College of Fashion. She graduated with distinction and won the Unilever Award and the Bavarian state prize for young designers.

Following this she created the first set and costume designs for artist duo Lundahl & Seitl, for the performance My Voice that was presented at BAC-Battersea Arts Centre at London, as well as Symphony of a Missing Room at the National Museum Stockholm, Sweden. As assistant of design and pattern cutting she worked for the London based fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and took part in the Paris Fashion show S/S 2009 and S/W 2009/10. In this way she developed her knowledge in draping and pattern design.

2000 – 2005

In summer 2000 she completed her A-levels at Bad Kreuznach after which she gained her first experience as a trainee in costume-making at Theatre Mainz, with the musical Evita.
To gain more understanding in sewing and pattern cutting she took part in a special course in Ladies Dress Making at the temple Wat Tatong in Bangkok. For a further three months she worked as an intern in an industrial tailoring company at Bad Kreuznach. In 2001 she started her studies in Fashion Design at University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim. During this time she did a seven-month internship in Bangkok, at Studio Léa, a Unesco award-winning organisation, that produces and deals with silk fabric. Jula Reindell was allowed to design a whole collection that was showcased in a fashion show. In 2005 she graduated successfully with a Diploma in Fashion Design and had the great opportunity to present her final collection with four other students in a fashion show at MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. For her presentation she collaborated with dancers from the Tanzquartier and met the dancer Ottilia Gaurean who asked her to create costumes for a dance piece at Tanzquartier, Vienna.