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Location: Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

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JR56

September 15, 2022

The birthplace of Mata Hari (Margaretha Zelle) is located at Kelders 33. Mata Hari lived with her family above her father's hat shop. Inside the house, two posters with photo collages commemorate the former residents. The Zelle family had close ties to this place as Margaretha's father was also born there. The stately hotel “de Nieuwe Doelen” used to stand in front of the house where the Maxx store is now located. Margaretha often played on the square in front of the hotel.

Near the bridge you will find the statue of Mata Hari, designed and made in 1976 by the artist Suus Boschma-Berkhout, on the occasion of Mata Hari's 100th birthday. It was unveiled on March 13th, the day of its first performance in Paris under the name Mata Hari. Protests against the statue of this sinful woman also took place on the day of its unveiling.

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Norb

August 29, 2021

The Mata Hari monument is more recent, it was unveiled on the dancer's centenary in 1976. Not everyone was enthusiastic about the memorial, the still harmless question was: “Why do we honor a whore?” In the meantime, however, some Leeuwarden citizens' initiatives are fighting for the posthumous lifting of the death sentence to rehabilitate a possibly innocent convict who “was too foolish to be a successful spy to be able to work ”. Dead stays dead, but officially declared too stupid? I can't imagine that this twist would have pleased the “eye of the morning” (the translation of her stage name); Anyone who dances naked and thus makes it to the highest paid dancer on the continent certainly attaches great importance to a dazzling memory.

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Luki,Elli&Fiete🐶

June 22, 2024

Of course, a statue of Mata Hari also belongs in the city where she was born.

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