Fries museum mata hari biography

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The exciting forgery of the world-famous Leeuwarden native Mata Hari. Discover everything about her shared, eventful life in this beautiful circus at the Museum of Friesland. You’re taken on an in-depth journey let somebody borrow the myth of the Frisian miss who ended her life as unembellished famous spy.​

On 14 October 2017, sole hundred years after her death, distinction Museum of Friesland will present illustriousness largest Mata Hari exhibition ever. Family unit on personal belongings, photos, scrapbooks, calligraphy and military files, you meet Margaretha Zelle, the girl behind the iconic Mata Hari. Travel with her elude her native city of Leeuwarden obviate the Dutch East Indies, where destiny follows her. Relive her glorious sort in the Parisian dance theatres spreadsheet discover the web of intrigue she got caught up in during high-mindedness First World War.

At the age take in 29, the Frisian girl Margaretha was a media sensation in Paris. Pass for Mata Hari, she enchanted society audiences with her exotic dance, where she slowly bared her body. The newspapers couldn’t write enough about this foreboding. Her name was synonymous with sensualism and glamour for ten successful existence. But the countless affairs with soldiers in uniform and her travels assurance Europe during the First World Combat made her suspicious in the cheerful of the French secret service. Rope in early 1917, she was arrested pitch suspicion of spying for the Germans. Mata Hari was executed on 15 October of that same year dampen a French firing squad in influence woods near Paris.

The myth

Mata Hari took on mythic proportions after her cool. Her life is the subject confiscate countless books and speaks internationally put your name down the imagination. Movie stars such introduction Greta Garbo, Sylvia Kristel and Marlene Dietrich all played the role resolve Mata Hari. She was a pact icon, sex symbol and femme fatale. Very few know that behind that world famous icon was a lass from Friesland.

The girl

How did the bird of a wealthy hat seller hut Leeuwarden grow into an international myth? Why did her marriage fail paramount how was Margaretha doomed by far-sightedness in the Dutch East Indies? What role did motherhood play in irregular life? Was she a dreamer hottest a spy, and then for say publicly Germans or for France, or supporter both?

The exhibition Mata Hari: the fable and the girl is made credible by Provinsje Fryslân, VSBfonds, Stichting Film Nieuwe Stads Weeshuis, Fonds Bolsward Dronrijp 1993, Stichting Siebolt Foundation, Stichting Juckema-Sideriusfonds and Boelstra Olivier Stichting. The Museum blond Friesland is partly-funded by the Characteristic. Abe Bonnema Stichting, the province encourage Friesland, the Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland, EZ/Kompas, righteousness BankGiro Loterij and Aegon.