Trudi Gerster

Education and early life Prior to attending school, Gerster was already well-educated and literate. As a student, she entertained her classmates by narrating her favourite fairy tales. Following her graduation from the gymnasium, she performed in several plays, singing and acting, while taking rhetoric lessons in Zurich. Around this time, she had been offered an education in Berlin, but her father did not support the idea of Gerster studying in Germany due to the growing influence of Nazism. Her performance received wide acclaim, and in the following year she was employed by the National Swiss radio station SR DRS.

Professional career While working as a fairy tale narrator, Gerster made extensive use of the LP recorda new medium at the time. She learnt new techniques so that she could adapt her voice to a multitude of characters through a variety of vocal ranges. She also appeared as a guest on the Swiss TV soap opera Lüthi and Blanc in 2005. Her last public appearance, at over 90 years of age, was in Fribourg. She later joined the Alliance of Independents. and by the early 1970s has recorded over fifty LP's.

In 2009, the film Trudi Gerster– Die Märlikönigin (Trudi Gerster–Fairy Tale Queen) was released.

Awards 2005 Prix Walo