Pola Kardum, born in Berlin, worked as a fashion designer from 2009 to 2014 for various film productions in various positions in the costume department. Since 2011 she has been working as a freelance costume designer for film, theater and opera productions. Internationally at the Opéra National de Lyon, at La Monnaie in Brussels and at the Theater an der Wien with the director David Marton for Orfeo ed Euridice, La damnation de Faust, Don Giovanni, Dido and Aeneas, Queen of Spades, Capriccio and Der Freischütz. Her national theater productions included: to the HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Maxim Gorki Theater, Prinzregententheater and the Munich Kammerspiele, with projects such as La Sonnambula and On the Road directed by David Marton, The Kränkungen der Menschschaft and 1000 Serpentine Angst in Directed by Anta Helene Recke, as well as Chorus never dies by Marta Gornicka and We call wonder by Christiane Huber. She also created the costume design for the German films I Don’t Want to Get Artificially Excited and Weitermachen Sanssouci by Max Linz, both of which had their premieres at the Berlinale. The film Golden Twenties by Sophie Kluge was shown at the Munich Film Festival. Her last cinema production, The Theory of Everything, directed by Timm Kröger, celebrated its premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival as part of the main competition.