Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert ( born January 20, 1865 in Paris, † February 2nd 1944 in Aix -en- Provence) was a French singer of the 19th century.
Life
Yvette Guilbert worked as a clerk in the Paris department store Printemps and as an art model and took singing and acting lessons next.
Come quickly to success, she performed at the Moulin Rouge and the Berlin conservatory. She impressed loud contemporary reviews less by their singing talents than by their manner of performance. Her songs were more like a chant; important here were the concise representation and the sharp, often time-critical texts.
The poet and critic Alfred Kerr wrote about her singing:
Nowadays one knows Yvette Guilbert most likely still from the images by Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, who represented with red hair and black gloves.
Less well known is that she was involved in the 1920s and 1930s in several films as an actress. The best known are fist - a German folk tale by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Marcel L' Herbiers Zola adaptation L'Argent. She also authored two books on the Belle Époque. She and her husband, Max Schiller had with Sigmund Freud exchanged letters; Freud sketched while his personal interpretation of the " phenomenon Yvette Guilbert ".
Works
- The half - old. Translation of Ludwig changer. Seemann, Leipzig o.J. ( around 1900 ).
- The Brettl king. Translation by Paul Bornstein. Langen, Munich 1902.
- Song of my life. Translation of Franz Hessel, foreword by Alfred Polgar. Rowohlt, Berlin 1928.
- I sang the earth. Travel memories. Translation and foreword by Hedda owls mountain. Droste, Dusseldorf 1950.
- The art of singing a song. With ten songs from the repertoire of Yvette Guilbert in adaptations of Bettina Wegner. Henschel, Berlin 1981.