Yvette Guilbert

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Yvette Guilbert (1895)

Yvette Guilbert (born January 20, 1865 in Paris , † February 2, 1944 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French singer ( soprano ) and actress.

Life

Yvette Guilbert greets the audience in 1894, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Yvette Guilbert first worked as a saleswoman in the Parisian department store Printemps and as an art model and also took singing and acting lessons.

Quickly achieved success, she appeared as a celebrated chansonette in Parisian variety theaters such as the Moulin Rouge and in the Berlin Winter Garden . According to contemporary reviews, she impressed less with her singing skills than with her way of speaking. Their songs were more like spoken chants ; The pointed presentation and the sharp, often time-critical texts were important. She later sang French folk songs .

The poet and critic Alfred Kerr wrote of her singing:

Desert tragedy. Soft mockery.
Churches of love and the scaffold.
Further waltz. Soft humming.
Laugh. Brooding. And fall silent.

Nowadays, Yvette Guilbert is best known from the pictures by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , who portrayed her with red hair and black gloves.

Although based in Paris, she toured all European capitals, Africa and the USA. Between the world wars she tried to promote international understanding on an artistic level.

What is less well known is that she also appeared in a few films as an actress in the 1920s and 1930s. The best known are Faust - a German folk tale by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Marcel L'Herbier's Zola- adaptation L'Argent . She also wrote two books on the Belle Époque . She worked on French chansons with G. Ferrari ( Chansons anciennes , 6 volumes, 1911 ff.). She and her husband Max Schiller were in correspondence with Sigmund Freud ; Freud outlined his personal interpretation of the “Yvette Guilbert phenomenon”.

Works

  • The half-olds. Translation by Ludwig Wechsler . Seemann, Leipzig undated (around 1900).
  • The board king. Translation by Paul Bornstein . Langen, Munich 1902.
  • Song of my life Translation by Franz Hessel , foreword by Alfred Polgar . Rowohlt, Berlin 1928.
  • The earth sang to me. Travel memories. Translation and foreword by Hedda Eulenberg . Droste, Düsseldorf 1950.
  • The art of singing a chanson. With ten chansons from the repertoire of Yvette Guilbert in adaptations by Bettina Wegner . Henschel, Berlin 1981.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Annette Ziegenmeyer: Yvette Guilbert. Pioneer of musical mediaeval studies for listening. Verlag Dohr, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86846-111-4 .

Web links

Commons : Yvette Guilbert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures. Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 201.
personal data
SURNAME Guilbert, Yvette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French singer (soprano) and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1944
Place of death Aix-en-Provence