#misc dates

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The Masculine Cover Models of "Die Freundin"

(various dates, 1929-1930)

while most cover models for the magazine were (predictably) feminine women posing for nude photographs alone or in groups, i was able to find these four exceptions* among them in the archive. maybe there were even more in the 3 years that arent collected in the archive! due to the quality of the scans i fully cannot tell if 2 or 3 of these are the same person... nevertheless i can only imagine what their appearance must have moved in girls back in the day - did masculine women have them acting unwise? in any case i felt like unearthing these primordial butches and showing them to tumblr dot com... who knows what happened to them in the years after.

only one of the models is named, and im not entirely sure the picture used was meant to be a "glamorous" photo. her name is Charlotte "Lotte" Hahm and shes most likely on the cover of No. 17, 1929 because of the recent merging of the two ladies' clubs Violetta and Monbijou (discussed by Hahm in an article on page 5-6 of that number). you might recognize her from this picture, which has made the rounds on tumblr (blog: genderoutlaws) in the last few years:

which is also on the cover of an issue of Die Freundin (No.1, 1929). Hahm was actually a prominent lesbian and feminist organizer could really also have an entire post all to herself. she even survived both the Nazi regime and WW2 to keep organizing well into the 1940s and 50s. more about her (and almost equally as important: more pictures of her cool outfits) can be found here (Lesbengeschichte.org, in german). let me know if theres interest in a translation of that site's biography into english!

*there is one more from 1928 that i am omitting from this post because she will be the subject of her own post later. inquisitive readers can find her on the cover of No. 7, 1928.

image IDs under the cut:

(image 1: photograph in black and white of a round-faced fair-skinned woman with short slicked back hair looking to the right, smiling while holding a cigarette in her hand. she is wearing an open suit jacket with a white pocket square, a white dress shirt, and a striped tie)

(image 2: photograph in black and white of a fair-skinned woman with hair that blurs into the dark background of the photograph, seated and looking sternly over her right shoulder. she is dressed in a black tuxedo jacket with large lapels, a white dress shirt with a black bowtie, and a monocle attached to her shirt. she is holding a cigarette in her hand)

(image 3: photograph in black and white of a fair skinned woman looking the the left, dressed in some kind of white and black uniform cap with a leather brim and laurels, black uniform jacket with white braided shoulder boards and a white pocket square, a white dress shirt, and a black bowtie. the photograph is captioned in german as "The modern woman!")

(image 4: photograph in black and white of a fair skinned woman standing with her hands in her pockets facing the camera directly, her hair dark, short, and parted to one side. she is wearing a white dress shirt, white or possibly very light colored tie, dark suit pants, and light colored shoes. the photo is captioned in german as "Lotte Hahm, 1st club president of the Ladies' Clubs Violetta and Monbijou")

(image 5: the same person as in image 4 posing with a sign that reads "Hooray! Die Freundin is here again!" in german, wearing a polka dotted bowtie instead of a long tie. the rest of the outfit is the same as in image 4)

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