Vogel-Lisi
The Vogel-Lisi (also: Vogellisi ) is a Swiss dialect song from Adelboden in the Bernese Oberland . Although it was probably not written until the middle of the 20th century, it is one of the Bernese folk songs. The song has become a trademark of Adelboden and is one of the most famous dialect songs in Switzerland .
Emergence
The origin of the song is not clear. No references to the song or the figure of Vogel-Lisi are known from old books, documents, traditions or the local archive of Adelboden, nor are there any known references to the old repertoire of the Adelboden choirs. It can therefore be assumed that the song is not a traditional cultural asset, but a modern folk song.
Oral tradition says that the song refers to a herbalist who actually lived in Adelboden earlier. She collected herbs and was accompanied by a bird - an eagle or a raven - which was also found dead after the woman's fatal fall. The embellished story is not an old tradition, but was probably written in more recent times.
According to the Adelboden vice tourism director, Jürg Blum, in January 2011 to Radio DRS, the song was written in the 1950s when the old tavern was opened in Adelboden. The Meisen duo from Zurich played there . When the beautiful, young photographer Lisa entered the restaurant, the duo "spontaneously shook the piece out of their sleeve" to sing about this woman. The song is therefore actually a "pick-up song". The photographer Lisa was a “pretty woman of life” with a “dubious reputation” and had “often changed friendships”. In the 1950s, she photographed the guests in Adelboden's nightclubs and turned many an Adelboden's head in the process.
song lyrics
The song consists of only one verse followed by a refrain . Since it is written in Swiss German , for which there is no uniform spelling, the song texts are different, depending on whether it should come closer to the Bern German dialect or a more general Swiss German dialect (e.g. Zurich German ).
Two variants of the spelling of the lyrics
| If I only knew where it would be | If I only knew where the Vogel-Lisi would be |
| s'Vogellisi chunt from Adelbode | The Vogel-Lisi chunnt from Adelbode |
| Adelbode lies in the Bernese Oberland | Adelbode is in the Bärner Oberland |
| s'Berner Oberland is beautiful | The Bärner Oberland is beautiful-ö-ön |
| yes, z'Oberland yes, z'Oberland | The Oberland, yes the Oberland |
| z'Bernese Oberland is beautiful | The Bärner Oberland is beautiful |
| z'Oberland jo, z'Oberland | The Oberland, yes the Oberland |
| z'Bernese Oberland is beautiful. | The Bärner Oberland is beautiful. |
In high German the text means: "If I only knew where the Vogellisi is / the Vogellisi comes from Adelboden / Adelboden is in the Bernese Oberland / the Bernese Oberland is beautiful ..."
Adaptations
The song was picked up by many artists and sometimes played in their own interpretations ( cover versions ), for example by Matty Valentino in an après-ski version or DJ Ötzi in a duet with Sylvia Michel .
Trivia
In Adelboden, many things were named after the song, for example there is Vogel-Lisi hiking sausage, Vogel-Lisi cheese, Vogel-Lisi tea, Vogel-Lisi- Gonfi , Vogel-Lisi syrup, a mountain run and a music festival with this name . Adelboden Tourismus markets the “Vogel-Lisi” trademark and at times offered several versions of the song on its website, including a giraffe singing the song.
Web links
- Adelboden hymn "Vogellisi" is an old song , article from January 7, 2011 on the website of Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) with a contribution from Swiss radio DRS, 7:02 minutes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bärner Volkslieder on the website edimuster.ch
- ↑ Radio report DRS, from 6:43 am
- ↑ «s'Vogellisi». «S'Vogellisi». Swiss television, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved April 5, 2014 . in songbook no. 8 of the television program « The greatest Swiss hits »
- ↑ The song is on the CD The Biggest Swiss Hits - Heart & Pain , which reached number 1 on the Swiss charts in November 2008, see entry in the Swiss charts .
- ↑ Radio report DRS, from 3:05 am and from 3:45 am
- ↑ Radio report DRS, from 4:03 am
- ↑ Radio report DRS, from 2:10
- ↑ a b Vogellisi's fall into the mysterious , article in the magazine WANDERN.CH
- ↑ see e.g. B. Ds Vogellisi us Adelboden (I don't know where the Vogel-Lisi would be…) ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2015 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.
- ↑ Radio report DRS, from 4:27
- ↑ Matty Valentino - Vogulisi ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2016 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.
- ↑ DJ Ötzi sings with Sylvia Michel s'Vogellisi , video on Youtube
- ↑ Radio report DRS, from 0:35
- ^ Website of the Vogellisi mountain run
- ^ Website of the Vogellisi Festival
- ↑ The MP3 files of the song were saved on the Adelboden Tourism website. Archive version of the page from April 7, 2014 , the MP3 files are not in the archive
- ↑ Giraffe sings Vogellisi song: archive version from April 3, 2016 on the Switzerland Tourism website
