Yvonne George

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Yvonne George, 1928

Yvonne George , actually Yvonne de Knops , (* 1896 in Brussels ; † April 22, 1930 in Genoa ) was a Belgian singer and feminist actress .

Life

During the German occupation of Belgium in World War I , George was said to have had an affair with Hermann von Wedderkop . George began her acting career in the theater and was friends with Jean Cocteau at the time . Paul Franck , who was then director of Paris Olympia , discovered George in a cabaret in Brussels in the 1920s . George premiered at Olympia in 1922. The French poet Robert Desnos dedicated numerous poems to her, including the poem J'ai tant rêvé de toi (I have dreamed so much about you) . Desnos also made her take opium . During this time he also wrote his novel La Liberté ou l'Amour (Freedom or Love) , which was convicted of obscenity by the Tribunal de la Seine . In the interwar period , George campaigned for the emancipation of women . George fell ill with tuberculosis and died after unsuccessful treatment at the age of 33 in a hotel room near the port of Genoa on April 22, 1930.

Discography

  • J'ai pas su y faire (Cartoux - Costil - Yvain) - 1925
  • C'est pour ça qu'on s'aime (Telly - Borel-Clerc) - 1925
  • Le petit bossu (inconnu) - 1925
  • Je te veux ( Erik Satie ) 1925
  • J'ai pas su y faire (deuxième version) - 1926
  • You Know You Belong to Somebody Else - 1926
  • Pars (Lenoir) - 1926
  • Chanson de marin (Auric) - 1926
  • Toute une histoire (Jeanson) - 1926
  • La mort du bossu - 1926
  • Adieu chers camarades - 1926
  • Ô Marseille (Vienna) - 1927
  • Chanson de route (Wiener) - 1927
  • C'est pour ça qu'on s'aime (deuxième version) - 1928
  • Si je ne t'avais pas connu (Boyer - Boyer - Verdun) - 1928
  • J'ai pas su y faire (troisième version) - 1928
  • Le bossu (deuxième version) - 1928
  • Les cloches de Nantes - 1928
  • L'autre (Lenoir) - 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Benn , Thea Sternheim , Mopsa Sternheim: Correspondence and records. 2004, p. 376.
  2. ↑ Andrea Oberhuber: Chanson (s) de femme (s): Development and typology of the female chanson in France 1968-1993. In: Study series Romania Volume 10, 1995, p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME George, Yvonne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Knops, Yvonne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian singer and feminist actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1930
Place of death Genoa