Elsbeth Janda

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Elsbeth Janda (born December 27, 1923 in Mannheim ; † April 9, 2005 in Heidelberg ), own Elsbeth Nötzoldt-Janda , b. Elisabeth Janda, was a German conférencière , cabaret artist , actress , author and editor . It became popular through the promotion of the Kurpfälzer dialect .

Life

Urn niche in the crematorium of the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof with a marble plaque on which the life data of Elisabeth Janda and her husband Fritz Nötzoldt are recorded

Elsbeth Janda grew up in Mannheim, where she graduated from the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium . She then studied musicology , art history and philosophy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After that, she initially taught as a music teacher .

Her stage career then began in the 1950s : with her husband, the writer and journalist Fritz Nötzoldt , she was on the road for many years and, also through the Goethe-Institut , worldwide with cultural and historical cabaret programs. Since 1962 she has worked continuously for radio and television , from 1978 to 1986 she was a presenter at the television station Südwest 3 . She was known nationwide z. B. as the Palatinate voice of the dog lady Schlabbinchen from the cartoon clips " Äffle und Pferdle " of the SWR and the ARD .

With her programs “Pfälzer Leut” (1 and 2), “ Liselotte von der Pfalz - her life and her letters” as well as with her book publications, she established her reputation as the grande dame of the Electoral Palatinate. Her genres as a writer were Kurpfalz dialect in poetry and prose , texts for theater and cabaret as well as publications on the cultural history of the Kurpfalz . Her repertoire also included essays on Palatinate dialect , morality , bank songs as well as Yiddish songs and ballads .

After the death of her partner and husband Fritz Nötzoldt († 1987), she performed as a lecture artist and conférencière both solo and with cabaret ensembles and theater groups. Even after her 80th birthday, until the beginning of the year of her death, she still acted regularly in television plays , radio plays and on the stage, e.g. B. in the Frankenthaler Theater Alte Werkstatt (TAW) .

After suffering from breast cancer in 1993, she became involved in the follow-up care of breast cancer , the long-term effects of which she finally succumbed. She was buried at her husband's side on April 18, 2005 in Heidelberg. In 2012 the Elsbeth Janda Library in the Mannheim City Archives was named after her .

Works

Author

  • The frog in the milk and another history of the Palatinate . cjm Verlag, Speyer 1993

Editor

  • The morality of the banter . Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1959
    Partial volume Why are you crying, the lovely gardener's wife, 1965
  • Songs from the ghetto . (together with R. Max Meyer spokesman) Fischer Frankfurt / M. and Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich, 1962
    part volume Jiddische Lieder 1970, 1964 also Nederl. (including an early version of the " Tsen Brider ")
  • Humor in our city of Heidelberg . Fink Verlag, Stuttgart 1971
  • Humor of the Palatinate . Fink Verlag, Stuttgart 1972
  • The laughing Palatine . Badenia Verlag, Karlsruhe 1978

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheim/mannheim-stadt/wertvolle-bucher-finden-neue-heimat-1.712383
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Janda, Elsbeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nötzoldt-Janda, Elsbeth (full name); Janda, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conférencière and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2005
Place of death Heidelberg