Karl Tellenbach

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Karl Tellenbach (born April 6, 1877 in Walkringen , † July 31, 1931 in Bern ) was a Swiss master hairdresser and from around 1910 known as the city's original Dällebach Kari .

Life

Karl Tellenbach was born in Walkringen in Emmental in 1877 as the son of the farmer Friedrich Tellenbach. After an apprenticeship as a hairdresser in Worb , he worked as a journeyman in Murten from 1894 to 1896 . In 1901 he became a master hairdresser "after intensive evening course studies". From 1896 Tellenbach lived in Bern; with only one interruption in 1899 when he lived in Couvet in the canton of Neuchâtel .

Because of his harelip , he was always ridiculed, especially by its customers. His love for the high school graduate and the daughter of a manufacturer, Annemarie Geiser, failed because of her family's arrogance of class. Karl Tellenbach remained single and developed into a loner who was known for his humor. Marked by his harelip and the accompanying nasal speech, he tried all his life to give people another reason to laugh than this handicap. His legendary joke has been passed down in numerous anecdotes.

In the city of Bern, he had been running his own hair art salon at Neuengasse 4 in Bern's old town since July 1, 1900 . He was very quick-witted towards his customers and a gifted entertainer. When a tax officer felt that he was being treated a bit rudely and criticized "Kari", he replied: "You have valued me higher than I have for years".

In his free time he is said to have gone on extensive pub crawls . A joke testifies to this as well: «Kari» fell down drunk on the way home at night and couldn't get up. To the two policemen who found him and got him back on his feet, he said that two Italians had brought him to the ground. When the police asked who they were, he said mischievously: "The Chianti and the Barbera !"

After two unsuccessful cancer operations, he died of suicide by jumping from Bern's Kornhausbrücke into the Aare . His body was discovered and recovered around ten days later in Wohlensee .

Remembering the original city of Bern

In 1970 Kurt Früh released the film Dällebach Kari about his life, with Walo Lüönd in the lead role and a song by the Bernese chansonnier Mani Matter . Matter said he wrote it as a commission for the film. The title song is sung by Kari Wie die Blümchen outside tremble from 1851 at the funeral meal .

Tellenbach's urn was buried in the Bremgarten cemetery in Bern , but the grave has since been lifted. According to his niece, Heidi Binggeli-Tellenbach, he was never buried: the urn is said to have been in the family's cellar for a long time. The same niece has also contradicted the portrayal of her uncle as a notorious drunkard - especially mediated by the film -: she herself never found him drunk.

In 2002, Bern city councilor Peter Bühler submitted an interpellation to the local council, asking whether Bern's city government would not finally commemorate the most famous original in some form. But they did not want to rename Neuengasse to Dällenbach-Kari-Gasse or to create any kind of monument . As a result, "Kari" was financed by private sources in April 2004 for a memorial plaque at the location of his "salon".

In the summer of 2006, the play Dällebach Kari by Livia Anne Richard was performed on Bern's local mountain Gurten in honor of the 75th anniversary of his death . Further performances took place there in the summer of 2007.

On July 15, 2010, the musical Dällebach Kari premiered at the Thuner Seespiele . Further performances took place in Thun in summer 2010 and in Zurich in spring 2011. It was played in Bern from the end of September to December 21, 2012.

On this occasion, on April 8, 2010, a 2.70-meter-tall, almost 400-kilogram bronze statue by the Bern painter and sculptor Hansruedi Wüthrich was unveiled on Bern's Waisenhausplatz . The statue traveled through the Bern area until mid-July 2010 as an advertisement for the musical . It is still unclear whether the statue will then be given a permanent location in Bern.

An exhibition about Tellenbach's life was presented from April to October 2010 in the Emmental cheese dairy in Affoltern in the Emmental .

In January 2012, the film “ Eine wen iig, dr Dällebach Kari ” by Xavier Koller premiered at the Solothurn Film Festival. Koller wrote the script and directed, the film was produced by Alfi Sinniger . The film is not based on that of Kurt Früh, but on the play by Livia Anne Richard. As in the musical from 2010, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart played the master hairdresser; Nils Althaus played the young Dällebach Kari .

Testamentary disposition

Will of Karl Tellenbach, cremated in Bern on August 12, 1931

«Everyone who accompanies me on the last corridor should only be contemplative during the sermon and the sinking of the urn. Then it's the turn of coziness and humor. I have reserved a Säli at Frau Jenni's in the Grünegg and paid for a snack with Hamme and, of course, a drop of red in advance. Everyone thinks back to me by refreshing my stories with happiness and conviviality. At the end of the meal, I expressly wish, sing for me once more 'Like the little flowers tremble outside'. I will hear my favorite song. "

- Karl (Kari) Dällenbach

literature

  • Hansruedi Lerch: Dällebach Kari. Lukianos, Bern 1968; Weltbild, Olten 2007, ISBN 978-3-03812-174-9 .
  • Hansruedi Lerch: Kennsch dr Nöischt vom Dällebach Kari. Edition Erpf at Neptun, Kreuzlingen 1985; 2nd A. 2010, ISBN 978-3-85820-231-4 .
  • Hans A. Jenny: Swiss originals. Portraits of Helvetic Individuals. (= Volume 1). Nebelspalter, Rorschach 1991, ISBN 3-85819-158-2 , pp. 25-29.

The text and notes of Mani Matter's Ballade are reproduced in:

Other media

  • Dallsbach Kari. Film by Kurt Früh. DVD 2003
  • Dallsbach Kari. Soundtrack to the musical. Audio CD 2010
  • A little, Dr Dällebach Kari. Film by Xavier Koller , 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jenny, p. 25.
  2. Jenny, p. 27.
  3. Jenny, p. 27.
  4. The Dällebach enchants hearts. Tages-Anzeiger from July 16, 2010.
  5. Website for the musical ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daellebachkari.ch
  6. ^ Monument unveiled by Dällebach Kari. Article with video. Berner Zeitung of April 8, 2010.
  7. ^ Dällebach Kari in the Affoltern cheese dairy. In: Berner Zeitung from April 19, 2010.
  8. Dällebach Kari is back. ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Video in: « 10vor10 » from August 11, 2011 (4:13 minutes) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.srf.ch
  9. Great popularity for Xavier Koller's “Dällebach Kari”. In: Tages-Anzeiger / Newsnet from January 20, 2012.
  10. For further information see the website for the film: daellebachfilm.ch
  11. ^ From: Kurt Marti : funeral speeches. German Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, p. 14.