Gilberte de Courgenay
Gilberte de Courgenay , actually Gilberte Montavon (born March 20, 1896 in Courgenay , † May 2, 1957 in Zurich ) was a Swiss waitress who became an idol of soldiers.
Life
At the beginning of the First World War she was 18 years old and then worked during the war in her parents' Hôtel de la Gare in Courgenay. The village, located near the French border , became a military base; Gilberte entertained thousands of soldiers and officers and was enthusiastically revered by them. Hanns In der Gand made the song La petite Gilberte de Courgenay , written and composed by the Entlebuch military musicians Robert Lustenberger and Oskar Portmann, known in the winter of 1915/16 . This quickly became popular and so Gilberte became known throughout the country. After their wedding, she moved to Zurich. She died of cancer in 1957 and was buried in the Nordheim cemetery in Zurich.
In the service of intellectual national defense during the Second World War , Gilberte finally became the protagonist of a novel by Rudolf Bolo Maeglin (1939), a play and two films ( August Kerns Marguerite et les soldats from 1940 to 1941 and Franz Schnyder's Gilberte de Courgenay from 1941) to the patriotic cult figure.
literature
- Dominique Prongué: Gilberte de Courgenay. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Damien Bregnard: Gilberte de Courgenay: les années 1914–1918. Courgenay 2001.
- Janine Schmutz: Idéal de femme suisse. The heroine of the Swiss film “Gilberte de Courgenay” (1941) as a female model. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 53 (2003), pp. 174-196 ( online )
- Franz Burgert: The Song of Courgenay: the true story of origin; the most wondrous song fate. The Entlebucher Medienhaus, Schüpfheim [2016], ISBN 978-3-906832-02-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gilberte de Courgenay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information about Gilberte de Courgenay on Archive g26.ch ( Memento from April 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Theater Steffisburg 2003 with photo gallery by Gilberte de Courgenay ( Memento from 7 December 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Text of the song about Gilberte de Courgenay
- Margritli and d'Soldier - seriousness and Heiteres from the border occupation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gilberte de Courgenay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sound document from Fonoteca Svizzera, Lugano: https://www.fonoteca.ch/cgi-bin/oecgi4.exe/inet_fnbasedetail?REC_ID=111333.011&LNG_ID=DEU
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Courgenay, Gilberte de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montavon, Gilberte (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss waitress who became a soldier idol |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Courgenay |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1957 |
| Place of death | Zurich |