Ines Torelli (née Ines Stierli; 14 June 1931 â€" 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.Born and raised in St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen
in Switzerland to Walter Stierli, Ines Torelli worked as a domestic
helper in 1948/50, the so-called Welschlandjahr which at that time
usually teenage women absolved in western Switzerland (Welschland) to
improve the knowledge of the French language. As an autodidact Torelli
got a first chance in the "Cabaret Rüeblisaft" those member she
became between 1954 and 1956. Subsequently, she was engaged by the
Cabaret Federal in Zürich, followed by various tours along with
Schaggi Streuli, among others in "Sie und de Chef". On Theater am
Hechtplatz Torelli embodied the title roles in various musicals, 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.Ines Torelli played in various farces
at Bernhard Theater Zürich, as partner of Jörg Schneider and Paul
Bühlmann, so among other things in 1968 in "Mademoiselle Pepsi", "Der
keusche Lebemann" in 1972, in 1974 in "Die Schwindelfiliale" and in
1976 in "Der fidele Casimir". Unsatisfied by these roles, in 1977 she
starred, with artistic but not a commercial success, in the solo
program "Torelli total". Nevertheless, she continued to play in
comedies like "Potz Millione", with Rainer and Walter and directed by
Inigo Gallo, on 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.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 Räuber 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.
a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage, voice and film actress
starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and
stage productions.Born and raised in St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen
in Switzerland to Walter Stierli, Ines Torelli worked as a domestic
helper in 1948/50, the so-called Welschlandjahr which at that time
usually teenage women absolved in western Switzerland (Welschland) to
improve the knowledge of the French language. As an autodidact Torelli
got a first chance in the "Cabaret Rüeblisaft" those member she
became between 1954 and 1956. Subsequently, she was engaged by the
Cabaret Federal in Zürich, followed by various tours along with
Schaggi Streuli, among others in "Sie und de Chef". On Theater am
Hechtplatz Torelli embodied the title roles in various musicals, 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.Ines Torelli played in various farces
at Bernhard Theater Zürich, as partner of Jörg Schneider and Paul
Bühlmann, so among other things in 1968 in "Mademoiselle Pepsi", "Der
keusche Lebemann" in 1972, in 1974 in "Die Schwindelfiliale" and in
1976 in "Der fidele Casimir". Unsatisfied by these roles, in 1977 she
starred, with artistic but not a commercial success, in the solo
program "Torelli total". Nevertheless, she continued to play in
comedies like "Potz Millione", with Rainer and Walter and directed by
Inigo Gallo, on 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.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 Räuber 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.
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