What is Mopsa Sternheim?
{{multiple issues| {{cleanup|reason=|date=April 2024}} {{complex|date=April 2024}} {{copyedit|date=April 2024}} {{wikify|date=April 2024}} }} [[File:CH-NB - Frankreich, Paris- Menschen - Annemarie Schwarzenbach - SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-08-237.jpg|thumb|photo by Annemarie Schwarzenbach in 1933]] '''Dorothea “Mopsa” Sternheim''' (born '''Elisabeth Dorothea Löwenstein''' 10 January 1905 Oberkassel - 11 September 1954 Paris ) was a German set designer , costume designer and resistance fighter in France. In the 1920s, before emigrating to Paris, she designed costumes and sets for plays by Carl Sternheim and Klaus Mann . She was a member of the Resistance; she was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . == Life == Dorothea Löwenstein was the daughter of the writer Thea Sternheim and the playwright Carl Sternheim , . During the divorce in 1906, she and her older sister Agnes lived with their father, then following her remarriage in 1912 joined their mother.. In 1913, the family moved to [[La Hulpe]] . She moved to the Netherlands at the end of the First World War, then to [[Uttwil]] in 1919 and to near Dresden from 1922 to 1924. Mopsa Sternheim was educated by tutors and her mother. As a child, she already read Kleist , Dostoyevsky , Tolstoy and Schiller . <ref>{{Cite web|title=Mopsa Sternheim|url=https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/mopsa-sternheim/|access-date=2024-04-07|website=www.fembio.org|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Die Poesie der Hörigkeit: Roman|last=Singer|first=Lea|date=2017|publisher=Hoffmann und Campe|isbn=978-3-455-40625-2|location=Hamburg}}</ref> Mopsa Sternheim studied drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1923. She received a commission for set design and costumes for a production of her play ''Der Nebbich'' in Berlin. In 1924, she began an apprenticeship as a costume designer and set designer at the Cologne Theater . She became friends with Klaus Mann , Erika Mann, actress Pamela Wedekind Sternheim was responsible for the costumes and set