Sent M'Ahesa

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Hanns Holdt : Sent M'Ahesa around 1928

Sent M'Ahesa (born August 17, 1883 in Riga as Else von Carlberg ; † in mid-November [buried November 19 ] 1970 in Stockholm ) was an expressive dancer of the modern age who worked in Germany until the 1920s.

Life

Else von Carlberg was the elder of two daughters of the Riga statistician and city secretary Nikolai Walter-Carlberg (* 1858 in St. Petersburg , † 1921 in Hameln ) and his wife Jutta, née. Paling († 1892). In 1907 she came to Berlin with her sister Erika (1886–1951), who later worked as an actress, translator and poet, to study Egyptology. In 1909 she appeared for the first time in Munich with a program of ancient Egyptian dances .

She was portrayed by Max Beckmann , Bernhard Hoetger , Dietz Edzard and Adolf Münzer . The Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis saw her dancing in Berlin in 1923 (“She only danced once and then went back to her villa in Munich”) and wrote to his wife: “Since I saw Sent M'Ahesa dance, I don't want any other kind of dance Dance see more. I saw its highest form. "

In 1932 she surprisingly ended her dance career and moved to Sweden, her family's country of origin. From then on she translated Swedish books (e.g. Frans G. Bengtssons Rödeorm and Hans Pettersson's Oceanographie ) and worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the magazine Atlantis . She spent the last years of her life on the tenth floor of a Stockholm suburban skyscraper with a view of Lake Mälaren .

literature

  • The ancient Egyptian dance artist Sent M'Ahesa . In: Reclams Universum 26.1 (1910), p. 604.
  • Herbert Petersen: Sent M'ahesa , in: Yearbook of Baltic Germanism 1972, Lüneburg 1971, pp. 71–83
  • Katja Lembke: Hanover's Nefertiti. The portraits of Sent M'Ahesa by Bernhard Hoetger , Hanover 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Sent M'Ahesa. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Carlberg (Walter), Nikolai (v.). In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  3. ^ Karl Eric Toepfer: Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. in: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism Series 13, Berkeley: University of California Press 1997, ISBN 9780520918276 , p. 175
  4. ↑ Portrait of the dancer Sent M'Ahesa (1921) , MoMA
  5. ^ Head of the dancer, Sent M'Ahesa , 1917
personal data
SURNAME M'Ahesa, Sent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlsberg, Else von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Expressive dancer of modernity
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1970
Place of death Stockholm