Elsie Attenhofer

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Elsie Attenhofer (born February 21, 1909 as Elisabeth Attenhofer in Lugano , † September 16, 1999 in Bassersdorf ) was a Swiss cabaret artist , actress , writer and diseuse .

Life

Elisabeth Attenhofer was the daughter of Max Attenhofer and Emmy geb. Landgrave. In 1934 she joined the Cabaret Cornichon , which was famous throughout Switzerland for its biting satire. Your stage partners were u. a. Max Werner Lenz and Voli Geiler . She remained an important member of this troop until 1942. She also performed at the Stadttheater Basel and had her own chanson evenings.

Elsie Attenhofer also worked as a sculptor. Among other things, she created a - lost - almost three meter high statue of Joseph made of reddish clay, which stood in the garden of her parents' apartment building. Thomas Mann , who had found out about her work on it, visited her in her studio in August 1934. He suggested that she translate the work into a statuette , and she took up the suggestion. Mann set her a literary monument in the figure of Marie Godeau in Doctor Faustus , who has attributes from the life of the Protestant artist. Mann confessed in a letter in 1950: "I was in love with her at the time of my 60 years in May!"

In 1940 Attenhofer married Karl Schmid, a Germanist and secondary school teacher . The marriage resulted in a son (Christoph) and a daughter (Regine), born in 1942 and 1943. In 1976 she received the Culture Promotion Prize of the Canton of Zurich and in 1977 the Ida Somazzi Prize . The hourglass cabaret was founded in 1978 . In her souvenir book Réserve du Patron , published in 1989 , Attenhofer and her deceased husband had an imaginary conversation about their lives.

In 1988 she was awarded the Swiss Cabaret Prize of the Olten Cabaret Days , which is called the "Cornichon" based on her old ensemble. In 1990 she was awarded the Upper Rhine Culture Prize of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel; In 1998 she was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor of the Canton of Zurich.

What is less well known is that Elsie Attenhofer was one of the first female pilots in Switzerland. She obtained her pilot's license in 1931.

Filmography

Works

  • 1945 Who throws the first stone? Time piece in 4 acts. Artemis-Verlag, Zurich 1945.
  • 1959 The lady with the lamp.
  • 1959 You know Overbeck.
  • 1969 The green bucket. Com. 1969.
  • 1975 Cornichon. Memories of a cabaret. Benteli Verlag, Bern 1975, ISBN 3-7165-0040-2 .
  • 1981 The flight around the golden mosquito. Experienced stories. Reinhardt, Basel 1981.
  • 1989 Réserve du Patron , Rothenhäusler, Stäfa 1989

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Attenhofer, Elsie. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Heinz J. Armbrust: "Weakness for her since ever". Elsie Attenhofer (1909-1999). In: Ders .: "Dear friend, ... women around Thomas Mann" . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2014, pp. 75–84, quotation p. 78.
  3. ↑ Attenhofer, Elsie. In: Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XXIV edition of Degener's “Who is it”? Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Olten Cabaret Days: Previous winners ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kabarett.ch
  5. ↑ Elsie Attenhofer - WHO'S WHO biography. Retrieved November 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Attenhofer, Elsie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Attenhofer, Elisabeth (maiden name); Schmid, Elisabeth (after marriage)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cabaret artist, actress, writer and diseuse
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1999
Place of death Bassersdorf