Apr 20 2007
La Mome…
… bedeutet im Französischen soviel, wie: “Das Gör…”.
“La Mome” ist der Originaltitel des Films über Edith Piaf, der bei uns unter dem etwas süsslichen (Lied)titel “La vie en rose…” in die Kinos gekommen ist. Brilliant inszeniert, eine Entdeckung: Marion Cotillard als Piaf.
Mein Vater war grosser Piaf Fan.
Ich erinnere ihn “Je ne regrette rien” schmetternd in unserem Wohnzimmer. Ungewöhnlich für einen deutschen Mann in den frühen 60er Jahren….
“Triumph and Disaster” zu Ehren von Edith Piaf, Marion Cotillard und Paul Evers proudly presents:
Edith Piaf: “Non je ne regrette rien” in einer frühen Schwarzweissaufnahme:
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Georg Stefan Troller portraitiert Edith Piaf für sein “Pariser Journal” im Jahr 1962:
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For the english readers:
I watched the french Film “La Mome” recently.
Marion Cotillard stars as Edith Piaf.
Piaf belonged to my fathers heroines.
My grandmere (his mother) was born in Alsace Lorain. She and her two sibblings during world war two where citizens of three different nations (German, French and Luxemburg).
Grandmere and her three children lived up to this semi french origin and cultivated it verbally and a la cuisine.
I liked the idea of being half french.
Like my father I proudly wore my barret basque.
I do not know exactly how old I was, maybe six or eight when I heard my father sing “Je ne regrette rien” in our living room.
Not so common, I guess, for a respectable German husband in the sixties.
The first video here shows Edith Piaf performing.
The second is an interview conducted by Georg Stefan Troller one of the best documentarists in German with Piaf and her husband Theo Sarapo.
