Bernhard Stirnemann

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Bernhard Stirnemann (born September 12, 1936 in Bern ; † March 23, 2011 ibid) was a Swiss actor , director , songwriter , cultural entrepreneur and politician ( SP ).

Life

Bernhard Stirnemann completed a teacher training seminar after a broken carpenter's apprenticeship and worked as a teacher until 1998. Independently of Mani Matter , he wrote his first chansons in the 1950s , inspired by the French chansonniers. In 1961 he founded the cellar theater Die Rampe in Bern's Kramgasse , which he also directed himself until it closed in 1982. There he appeared for the first time in 1966 with the Bern troubadours , to which he has belonged ever since. From 1968 to 1970 he also directed the theater at the Käfigturm .

He was also active in cultural policy for years, from 1972 to 1982 in the Bern City Council (parliament) and from 1982 to 1998 in the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern .

In 1992 he and friends founded a cooperative that has since run the Musigbistrot , a Parisian-style cultural bistro, in Bern . It was opened on the 20th anniversary of Mani Matter's death.

On March 23, 2011, at the age of 75, he died within a year as the third of the Bern troubadours , after Fritz Widmer and Markus Traber .

Works

Songbook

Recordings with the Bern troubadours

  • Berner Troubadours - Live , LP with chansons by all six Troubadours, Zytglogge, Gümligen 1971 (CD: zyt 4016)
  • Alti Hüet , LP with live recording of their “nostalgia program” on September 18, 1978 in Bern, Zytglogge (zyt 39), Gümligen 1978
  • The concert , 2 LPs (or CDs) with live recording of their anniversary program on November 27, 1985 in the Stadttheater Bern , Zytglogge, Gümligen 1986 (CD: zyt 4052)
  • The new program , CD with live recording (Krebs, Stirnemann & Traber) from May 16, 1991 in the Mahogany-Hall in Bern, Zytglogge (zyt 4067), Gümligen 1991
  • 30 years old, older, newer and new , 2CDs with live recording from November 19, 1995 from the Stadttheater Bern , Zytglogge (zyt 4076), Gümligen 1996
  • Gangs as usual - Program 2000 , 2 CDs, live from the Capella in Bern (La Cappella LIVE DCD), Bern 2000
  • 40 Years of the Bern Troubadours , CD with live recordings from the Stadttheater Bern on February 13 and March 20, 2005, Zytglogge (zyt 4095), Gümligen 2005

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Barth, however, mentions the year 1958, see drama, music theater and dance on g26.ch ( memento of October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), section From small theaters to independent groups
  2. ↑ Fred Zaugg: Chansons on threads of light . In: The Bund . March 24, 2011, accessed November 13, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Stirnemann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actor, director, songwriter, cultural entrepreneur and politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2011
Place of death Bern , Switzerland