#473. My complex me and brain. A new WORM production by Lieuwe Zelle.
A production made for Worm/Klangendum/Concertzender, april 2023.
Name: Lieuwe Anthonie Zelle.
06-03-1956 The Hague.
they/them.
Original a toy salesman working in a toyshop technical toys like
model-railroad trains and stuff and plastic
model kits and so on. In that time you had to have a diploma to sell
toys or to be a shop-manger.
Besides that I played drums in a´Hard Rock band’. Later-on in life I
found that playing music an working in a toyshop was not enough to
support my family.
Due to my family history -I am related to Mata Hari whose real name was
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (Leeuwarden, 7 augustus 1876 – Vincennes,
15 oktober 1917) sometimes I would be her or even have a relation with
her across time and gender.
Mata Hari
Myth:
There are stories that are connected somewhere in the distant past to a
person who lived in that distant past.
Over time, these stories have become true myths that probably contain
some truths, but the full truth has
been lost in the mists of time. It requires a true historian to find
out the full truth where possible, because many discoverable facts have
often remained in the mist of history.
But even if the truth is historically justified with facts and
documents, the myth is stronger than the truth/facts.
In a number of cases the myth changes to divine status, hero stories
about the saints of the Roman Catholic
Church and even Greek and Roman mythology.
Or even closer stories in the time of which the real facts are difficult
to find out, such as a story from the
family about Red Devil, an inland shipping flat-bottomed skipper from
the early 1800s or so.
But also a book that has largely determined our European and Dutch
society, the Bible is not good at
determining what histories are correct or where it is more a testimony
of faith and society from the time of the
writers.
Let’s now talk about my great-great-aunt and great-uncle, each of whom
has achieved some fame.
And with some narcissistic pleasure also myself your undersigned writer
to introduce you, because if you
don’t imagine yourself, you’re nothing.
Margreet Zelle ls daughter of Adam Zelle was already a free-spirited
young lady/girl in her youth, the favorite
of her father who, by the way, was not devoid of any kind of
exaggeration in who and what he was.
A fairly successful businessman and seller of hats and caps from his
shop in Leeuwarden.
But business failures ensure that dad goes bankrupt and Margreet is
referred to looking for a husband, as it
were.
Hum yes you can see the rest of the story in the movie Mata Hari The
naked spy or read the book about the
history of Mata Hari.As I want to be.
I am Mata Hari eye of the day.
I am light let disappear the darkness yes your light of day woman nor
man I am goddess and god at the
same time beauty and inspiration I am Mata Hari,
Goddess and God I am man and woman and give you light, light of the
world through the world.
As a few in time and eternity I descend and give my light, wisdom, and
blinded you with beauty to all who are
worthy of my temptation in money and power but I remain light and the
darkness behind me and before me.
Paris :
I was posing for a famous artist in Paris frivolously yet virtuous when
the Director of the Opera came in and invited me to present myself in a
new production as a young virtuous lady as a kind of introduction. Since
I still had good hopes of obtaining custody of my daughter back in
Holland, I have to decline the offer, a virtuous life is necessary for
custody.
Rotterdam 1904
I am now at the Tivoli as there are no rehearsals so I have a moment to
discuss a few
things with you my dear second cousin. You are my voice you are my body
my survival on stage in front of the audience.
Rotterdam 2019
Dear Aunt, it is a lot that you ask me, but may I be with many my Aunt
my Aunt Margreet.
Parijs
Played or better I danced tonight at Musée Guim for the first time to
general amazement
only a few who looked and really saw. Yes my dear be with many my voice
my body my name.
Rotterdam 2019.
We are Mata Hari we are the eye we are Margreet Zelle.
Now Listen to my sound and music or what I call a sound-experience.
Rotterdam 10-04-2023.
Lieuwe Zelle they/them.
