Draft:Mopsa Sternheim

Dorothea “Mopsa” Sternheim (born Elisabeth Dorothea Löwenstein 10 January 1905 in 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. Because of her membership in the Resistance, she was imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Dorothea Löwenstein's parents were the playwright Carl Sternheim (1878–1942) and the writer Thea Sternheim (1883–1971), Mopsa Sternheim studied drawing at the Dresden Art Academy in 1923. In 1924 she began an apprenticeship as a costume and set designer at the Cologne Theater.