Английская Википедия:Hjelmar von Danneville
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Dr. Hjelmar von Danneville (1860-1930) was a prisoner in New Zealand suspected of being an imposter during World War I due to her gender non-conformity.
Life
Born in Denmark in 1860, she arrived in Wellington in 1911, claiming to have studied medicine in Switzerland.[1] She also claimed to have been a correspondent working on the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.[2]
Because of her short hair, masculine style of dress, and foreign accent, von Danneville was suspected of being a German imposter by the New Zealand authorities during World War I.[2] She was subjected to a forced medical examination by the military to determine her sex, and was interned for six weeks on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour in 1917.[3][4] She was the only woman to be interned on the island.
von Danneville moved to San Francisco in 1918, where she continued to fight with local authorities - including her arrest in 1925 "for masquerading as a man" - but ultimately obtained a permit to wear masculine clothes. She died in San Francisco in 1930.[5]
Based on her personal letters, modern historians have suspected that von Danneville may have been a lesbian.[6]
In popular culture
von Danneville was the subject of an exhibition at Wellington's Enjoy Public Art Gallery in 2018.[7][8]
Her story was featured in a 2019 non-fiction book by historian Jared Davidson, Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914–1920.[9]
References
External links
- Video biography, nzhistory.govt.nz
- Exhibition page, Enjoy Public Art Gallery
- Essay on Von Danneville, Garage Collective
- Английская Википедия
- Danish emigrants to New Zealand
- Danish emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century New Zealand women
- People from San Francisco
- 1860 births
- 1930 deaths
- Impostors
- Prisoners and detainees of New Zealand
- People interned during World War I
- Female-to-male cross-dressers
- 1910s in Wellington
- New Zealand transgender people
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