Author: anonymous [ Reinhard, Joakim (1858-1925) ]
Title: Helga : Skuespil i fire Akter
Description: Kjøbenhavn, J.H. Schuhothes Boghandel, 1882. binder's cloth. 18x12cm, 144 pp, Text entirely in Danish. Drama.. Rubbed. Some binding stains. Foxed. Good. ¶ ["Reinhard studied at the University of Copenhagen. Some students took a dislike to his arrogant and affected manners and spread the rumor that he had attempted to seduce two of them. At the same time another student, Martin Kok, caused a scandal at a party in the Student Union by drunkenly groping a cross-dressing student under his skirt. Under the weight of these rumors Reinhard, on his 19th birthday, fled to the US under an assumed name. He had no means of support in New York and a few months later, when the scandal had died down, he returned to Denmark. Privately Reinhard denied having attempted to seduce his fellow students, but his name was forever connected to the first publicised homosexual scandal in Denmark. For a few years he lived discretely in the countryside as a private teacher...Under a pseudonym, he published two novels that were well received. After his return to Copenhagen in 1883, he published several more novels and became a member of a coterie of young literay homosexuals around the talented author and journalist Herman Bang. He also became a flaming queen. Unwisely, in 1889 Reinhard in a newspaper article attacked Georg Brandes, the dominant figure of modern literary criticism and cultural opposition in Denmark. A few days later a newspaper, owned and edited by Brande's brother, ridiculed Reinard as Martin Kok's "comrade in arms" (i.e. as a homosexual). Other newspapers hinted at Reinhard as a sexual pervert and in November 1889 he emigrated to the US...." -Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History (2001)].

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