Ida Gawell-Blumenthal


Ida Albertina Gawell-Blumenthal was a Swedish author, storyteller, and singer, 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. 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.
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.

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
  • 1944 – Hemma i Hälsingland
  • 1944 – En erfaren husmors råd
  • 1945 – Det var en gång...
  • 1949 – Delsbostintan språkar litet om Lång-Lasse
  • 1962 – ''Fåfängans marknad''