Ines Torelli

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Ines Torelli (seated), next to Jörg Schneider (right) around 1963

Ines Torelli (born June 14, 1931 in St. Gallen as Ines Stierli ; † August 21, 2019 in Nova Scotia , Canada ) was a Swiss cabaret artist , singer and popular actress . In most of the roles she spoke the Swiss German dialect .

Life

Ines Torelli was born as Ines Stierli. Even as a child, she dreamed of performing on stage. After school she completed an apprenticeship as a tailor. In 1955 she got her first engagement at the Aargauer Cabaret Rüeblisaft , where she met her future husband Edi Baur (1919–2009), who was then a theater photographer . Together with Oskar Hoby , Regine Brandt and Alfred Bruggmann , she was part of the original line-up of the Cabaret; later she was replaced by Vera Furrer . In 1958 she switched to Cabaret Fédéral and later to “Äxgüsi”.

With growing success a stage name was needed. She freely translated her surname into Spanish (Toro = bull) and emphasized her combative nature with the little bull "Torelli".

In the 1970s she dared to take to the stage as a cabaret artist with her own program “Torelli total” and, among other things, delighted with her legendary parody of Marlene Dietrich . She sang and played in “ Bibi Balù ” as well as the “ small Niederdorfoper ” by Paul Burkhard , directed by Jörg Schneider.

A major success was the hit Gigi von Arosa , which premiered in January 1975 , a Swiss-German humorous adaptation of Dalidas Gigi l'Amoroso . Gigi is a ski instructor and a heartthrob here. As a singer with an unmistakable voice, she also performed with the Cabaret Rotstift .

Ines Torelli also made a career in Swiss television . In the 1970s she hosted the Saturday evening program “Zum doppelten Engel” together with Rosemarie Pfluger .

She became particularly well-known through the recordings of Kasperli sound carriers by and with Jörg Schneider and Paul Bühlmann . In 1982, 1 million records were sold.

In 1995 she emigrated with her husband, the theater producer Edi Baur, to Riverport in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia , where they had a wooden house built on a hill on a peninsula on Rose Bay. Edi Baur was able to open his own theater in the nearby town of Lunenburg in 1996 , two years later the authorities forced him to give up with high taxes. He died in 2009. The Swiss-Canadian dual citizen Torelli stayed in Canada and died in August 2019 at the age of 88.

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  1. ^ Actress Ines Torelli has died , bluewin.ch, August 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Annual report. (PDF; 3.8 MB) suissimage, 2006, p. 6 , accessed on February 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ At the age of 88 - actress Ines Torelli died on: SRF from 23 August 2019
  4. ↑ Ines Torelli enjoys the little things in life. In: srf.ch from June 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Gigi vo Arosa on Youtube
  6. ↑ Princesses, that's way too boring! - The Swiss actress Ines Torelli is dead in Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 23 August 2019
  7. ↑ The great happiness is in the great pond. In: Schweizer Familie , No. 24, June 15, 2006, p. 12.
  8. ↑ Theater producer Edi Baur has died. Press release City of Zurich, October 20, 2009.
  9. ↑ At Ines Torelli in Canada - Part 2. In: glanz & gloria , June 15, 2011, at 2:58
  10. ↑ Actress Ines Torelli has died. In: srf.ch, 23 August 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Torelli, Ines
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stierli, Ines (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folk actress and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2019
Place of death Nova Scotia , Canada