Elsie Attenhofer
Elsie Attenhoferstrasse ( born February 21, 1909 as Elisabeth Attenhoferstrasse in Lugano, † 16 September 1999 Bassersdorf ) was a Swiss comedienne, actress, writer and chanteuse.
Life and work
She was the daughter of Max and Emmy Attenhoferstrasse born Landgraf.
Elsie Attenhoferstrasse in 1934 for Cabaret Cornichon, which was famous for its scathing satire in the whole of Switzerland. Her stage partners were, inter alia, Max Werner Lenz and Voli Geiler. She stayed until 1942 an important member of this troupe.
In 1940 she married the German scholars Karl Schmid. The marriage produced two children born 1942 and 1943 emerged, a son and a daughter. In her memoirs, published in 1989 Réserve du Patron Attenhoferstrasse leads with her late husband an imaginary conversation about their lives. In 1990 she was awarded the Culture Prize of the Upper Rhine Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel, and in 1998 it was the Golden Medal of Honour of the Canton of Zurich awarded.