Asta Nielsen as a female Hamlet

Asta Nielsen and Lilly Jacobson in *Hamlet*. German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, nº 644/6. Photo: Art-Film. Asta Nielsen-Film. Asta Nielsen as a female Hamlet and Lilly Jacobsson as the love interest Ophelia in *the 1921* German silent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Svend Gade, Heinz Schall). Asta Nielsen produced the film herself. | src Flickr

Erika Mann und Pamela Wedekind

**Erich Sogalla ::** Erika Mann (links) und Pamela Wedekind. Auf der Suche nach der Queerness bei Erika Mann · How Erika can queer us. | src and © Münchner Stadtbibliothek · Monacensia

Photographer unknown, Former soldier
Christine Jorgensen at a press reception in London to launch the film
The Christine Jorgensen Story, September 14, 1970
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