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- Birth nameElse Margaretha Luisa von Carlberg
- Sent Mahesa was born on August 17, 1883 in Riga, Latvia. She was an actress, known for Die entschleierte Maja (1917) and Haß (1920). She died on November 19, 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- She was also portrayed by Max Ernst, Max Beckmann and Bernhard Hoetger.
- In 1907 she moved to Berlin with her sister Erika, who later worked as an actress, translator and poet, to study Egyptology.
- Hannah Höch, in her famous photomontage, placed in the top right anti-dada quadrant the body of Sent M'Ahesa in Middle Eastern costume, juxtaposed with the head of Federal Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the emblem of the German military effort in World War I.
- The Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis thus described the show she attended in Berlin in 1923 as one of the most beautiful pleasures of his life. He stated that she danced Indian religious dances and savage funerals. In addition, an amazing religious dance with masks.
- Like the American dancer Ruth St. Denis , Sent M'ahesa also extended her repertoire to other Indian, Native American, Thai dances.
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