Ines Torelli

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Ines Torelli
Torelli, ca. 1963
Born
Ines Stierli

(1931-06-14)14 June 1931
St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Died21 August 2019(2019-08-21) (aged 88)
Rose Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
NationalitySwiss
Occupation(s)Comedian, radio personality, actress
Years active1954 – 2019
Spouse
Edi Baur
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(m. 1991; died 2009)​

Ines Torelli (née Ines Stierli; 14 June 1931 – 21 August 2019) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage, voice and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Early life and education

Born and raised in

Cabaret Federal in Zürich, followed by various tours along with Schaggi Streuli, among others in "Sie und de Chef".[2] On Theater am Hechtplatz Torelli embodied the title roles in various musicals,[3] so in 1965 in "Bibi Balù", in 1967 in "Golden Girl", in 1968 "Pfui Martina" and in 1972 in "Viva Banana". In 1968 she starred alongside Ruedi Walter and Margrit Rainer as Olly Moreen in Die kleine Niederdorf-Oper at the Corso Theater in Zürich.[4][5][2]

Theater, cabaret, voice acting, television and film

Ines Torelli played in various farces at

Bernhard-Theater in 1979/80 that also became a big tour success, and in 1982 in Yves Jamiaque's "Acapulco, Madame" in the dialect version of Schneider and directed by Gallo at the Theater am Hechtplatz.[2]

Torelli had also great success and was very popular as a chanson singer, so with "De Gigi vo Arosa" and as Iduna in Burkhard's "Der schwarze Hecht" at the Corso Theater in 1981. From 1986 to 1994 she was the head of the

Zürcher Märchenbühne, and besides of her own dialect version of The Robber Hotzenplotz and Jörg Schneider's 1994 fairytale edition of "Das brave kleine Schneiderlein", Torelli staged among others again with Schneider in numerous musicals with children.[2]

She also became popular by numerous radio appearances and roles in Swiss and German films, among them in Oberstadtgass in 1956 and in one episode of Fascht e Familie. Beside the stage and television and film, again with Jörg Schneider and Paul Bühlmann, Ines Torelli became also very popular in the German speaking area by fairytale-radio plays records.[9][10]

In 1993 she emigrated with her husband to Canada to reside on the Lunenburg peninsula on the east coast of Canada. In 1996 they acquired an empty factory and rebuilt it into the Starlight Theatre to house up to 500 spectator seats. End of 1998 the financially unsuccessful private theater had to close.[2]

Personal life

Ines Torelli was a citizen of the

Canton of Aargau. In 1991 she married Edi Baur, a Swiss theatre director and actor,[1] who died on 14 October 2009.[11] Although lived in Canada since 1996, the friendship with Jörg Schneider survived until his death in 2015.[12]

Torelli died on 21 August 2019 at her home in Rose Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada at the age of 88.[13]

Filmography

  • 1995: Fascht e Familie (Television series, 1 episode)
  • 1981: Potz Millione (stage, broadcast on Swiss television)
  • 1975: De grotzepuur
  • 1971: Professor Sound und die Pille - Die unwahrscheinliche Geschichte einer Erfindung (Television film)
  • 1969: Pfarrer Iseli
  • 1968: Die sechs Kummerbuben
  • 1961: Chikita [de]
  • 1959: Café Odeon
  • 1957: Bäckerei Zürrer
  • 1956: Oberstadtgass

References

  1. ^ a b Hansruedi Lerch (2011-07-27). "Torelli, Ines" (in German). HDS. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e Thomas Hostettler (2013-12-05). "Ines Torelli" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  3. ^ Tanja Stenzl (2013-12-05). "Theater am Hechtplatz, Zürich ZH" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
  4. ^ "Ruedi Walter" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  5. ^ "Margrit Rainer" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2015-08-22.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Bernhard-Theater, Zürich ZH" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-11-22. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  7. ^ a b "Jörg Schneider" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  8. ^ "Paul Bühlmann" (in German). theaterwissenschaft.ch. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  9. ^ Karl Baldinger (2015-08-22). "Archiv-Perlen: Die schönsten Jörg-Schneider-Momente" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  10. ^ "Jörg Schneider ist tot" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  11. ^ H. Elias Fröhlich and B. Torricelli (2009-10-28). "Ines Torelli: Als Edi starb, hielt ich seine Hand" (in German). glueckspost.ch. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  12. ^ "Überraschungsanruf: Ines Torelli rührt Jörg Schneider zu Tränen" (in German). srf.ch. 2015-01-18. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
  13. ^ "Schauspielerin Ines Torelli ist gestorben" (in German). SRF. 23 August 2019.

External links

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