Ida Albertina Gawell-Blumenthal (4 November 1869 – 14 May 1953) was a Swedish author, storyteller, singer and actress, known under the name Delsbostintan.
Biography
Gawell-Blumenthal was the daughter of a priest from Arbrå. She is best known under the pseudonym Delsbostintan, under which she first performed in 1895 at Skansen as a performer of folk songs and stories from Hälsingland.Skansen och Artur Hazelius; en skiss och minnesbok by Johan Levart, (Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag, 1901) pp. 51–55. She toured for many years in the Nordic countries as well as Swedish communities in the US, as a storyteller of humorous Hälsingland stories, often with musical illustrations on the spilåpipa and singing.Stintans amerikafärd by Ida Gawell-Blumenthal, (Stockholm: Skoglund, 1908).
She moved to Stockholm in 1895 for studies at the Technical School and was married from 1898 to 1921 to the physician Moritz Blumenthal, who died in 1923.
Awards Ida Gawell-Blumenthal received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus in 1929. In 2003, on the 50th anniversary of her death, a statue of her was erected in the square in Delsbo.
Bibliography
Filmography
1923 – En rackarunge 1923 – Eld ombord 1926 – Fänrik Ståls sägner-del I 1926 – Fänrik Ståls sägner-del II 1936 – Kungen kommer 1944 – Delsbostintan berättar (short film) 1944 – Hemma i Hälsingland (short film) 1944 – En erfaren husmors råd (short film) 1945 – Det var en gång... 1949 – Delsbostintan språkar litet om Lång-Lasse (short film) 1962 – Fåfängans marknad
References
External links
Delsbostintan at newfield.nu Photos from Uppland Museum Delsbostintan at Swedish Media Database Delsbostintan at Swedish entertainment music, revues and film 1900–1960