"Mata Hari" is only a artistsname meaning "Eye of the rising sun" in Indian's Hindu language, her real name was Margaretha Mac Leod. Margaretha whas born at August 7. 1876 in the city Leeuwarden, Friesland a district of the Nedderlands north, her maiden name was Margaretha Gertrude Zelle. She was the daughter of an hatmaker named Adam Zelle. As wonder the girl looks like an asian people but her family comes really since many generations from the nedderlands country. Betwen here dancers career she tells some stories by herself about her alleged origin from India, education betwen Indian buddhist priests and the introduction of indian templedances. This all gives a aura of secrets about her person who goes on after her dead since today.

Mata Hari never learn real temple dances or oriental bellydance before she begins with here carrier. She only has some talent for dancing and interpretation of dances she have seen on Java. In the salons of Paris at 1905 nobody can be asses, how good or real she dance. Her show was full of smells and wonderfull mutch exotic so the athmosphere make the public like be whiched. The people whould be excitemental watch her dance. Final she takes off her clothes more and more, dancing naked at end and charmed moving her hands and body, she makes the public enchant. At this time this kind of dance was a real sensation.

She is strong, brunette and full of blood, her dark teint, her shadowed mouth and the light wet eyes tells about the sun of exotic countries and powerful rainfalls. She winds her Body like a snake under veils who simultaneus covering and showing her naked skin
We have nerver see some like this. Her breasts go up and down the eyes wet shining. The hands go up and sinking finaly down, like she are tired from sun and heat. In front of her there is an golden Goodssculpture, a old wooden Goodspicture. Hands go in the air for praying to him who never be alike our hands. Mouthes beseech with betelblack tooth who not be alike than our mouthes. Her dance is praying like; the voluptuousness whould be to praying self. We dont know what she do pray.
The dancer beware the mistery of her praying hands like the goodspicture with his strong looking eyes. It is everytimes demand for the undecidet who goes up to the unknown. The pretty body prays, winds and give himself: it is like the disperse from desire in the request.

Her glory whould be more and more and she prefers events in hole Europe but since 1910 Mata hare whould be forgotten by the People. In this time she begins some affairs mostly with high military officiers. She loves the uniforms and the men in it so much. She begins the relations only with men who spend the money for her expensive rooms in Hotels and some much more she need for a good life.

After 1910 Mata Hari became more and more in to a world of prostitution and bad people. She want to go out there and want to come back as the great dancer she was before, but she comes not out. In this time the world war one begins in 1914.

At february 13. 1917 she was arrestet in Paris by the accusation of spying for the oppositet Germany. Sometime she sit in Jail and after an lawsuit Mata Hari - Margaretha Zelle was executed at the firing range of Vincennes near Paris oat October 15. 1917.
She dont want to have some bandage on her eyes. Eleven projektils goes in to her Body (only one shoot past) so she goes down bindet at a wooden pile with some wire. She tells her last words the chief officier "Monsieur, i thank you." Another officier shot her a projectile more in to the ear in the head of her dead Body.

The legend of the dancer and spyer Mata hari begins and many rumors, wrong informathions and exagegerations, also by her own telled lies and a Film about her life make she immortal and more mysterious as she was at her time of life.

Said Bustany, January 2001