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Maria Kruse (1908–?), better known by her stage name Lea Niako, was a German exotic dancer and actress. Niako was renowned across Europe for her dance performances in the late interwar period, from 1926 to 1933. She often performed with little to no clothes; nude dancing, or nackttanz, was at the time popular and was seen as an artistic expression of modernity and emancipation. For her unusual and exotic performances, she garnered great attention in the international press. She also broke through into the film industry, appearing in the Portuguese film Fátima Milagrosa (1928) and the Spanish film La Carta (1931).

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  • Lea Niako (Hanburgo, 1908-Berlin?, 1945 inguruan) Lea Maria Kruseren izen artistikoa zen, baita ere Berlingo Dantzaria gisa ezaguna izan zen. Dantzaria, aktorea, artista eta espioia izan zen. Artista gisa nackttanz koreografiako mugimenduaren partaidea izan zen; mugimendu horretan protagonistak askotan publiko aurrean ia biluzik ateratzen ziren. Espezialisten arabera biluztasun hori askapen-keinu gisa ulertu behar zen. (eu)
  • Lea Maria Kruse, conocida artísticamente como Lea Niako o La Bailarina de Berlín (Hamburgo, 1908-Berlín?, no antes de 1945), fue una bailarina, actriz y espía alemana de ascendencia asiática cuya actividad artística se encuadró dentro del movimiento coreográfico denominado nackttanz, en que sus protagonistas llegaban a actuar en ocasiones prácticamente desnudas ante el público, lo que viene siendo interpretado por algunos investigadores como un «gesto de emancipación».​ En su faceta de actriz cinematográfica intervino en las películas Fátima Milagrosa (Rino Lupo, 1928), La carta (Adelqui Migliar, estrenada en el Teatro Buenos Aires de Bilbao el 21 de enero de 1931), Forja de héroes (Karl Ritter, 1939), Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti (Erich Waschneck, 1940) y Carl Peters (Herbert Selpin, 1941).​ (es)
  • Maria Kruse (1908–?), better known by her stage name Lea Niako, was a German exotic dancer and actress. Niako was renowned across Europe for her dance performances in the late interwar period, from 1926 to 1933. She often performed with little to no clothes; nude dancing, or nackttanz, was at the time popular and was seen as an artistic expression of modernity and emancipation. For her unusual and exotic performances, she garnered great attention in the international press. She also broke through into the film industry, appearing in the Portuguese film Fátima Milagrosa (1928) and the Spanish film La Carta (1931). Niako is most famous for her involvement in the German arrest of the Polish spy Jerzy Sosnowski in 1934. She met and fell in love with Sosnowski in Budapest in 1933, not knowing that he was a spy. After Sosnowski told her in Berlin of his espionage activities and she learnt of his numerous affairs with other women she panicked and confided with an acquaintance, who unbeknownst to her passed the information on to the SS. The Abwehr were also already pursuing an investigation into Sosnowski at the time. Niako later withdrew her testimony and might have alerted Sosnowski to his impending arrest but they were both apprehended in early 1934. Upon finding out that Niako's information had reached the SS, Sosnowski accused her of being his accomplice, determined to drag her down with him. Niako was spared from punishment through the intervention of Walter Schellenberg of the SS, who transferred her to his office for unspecified activities, with the threat that the prosecution against her could be resumed at any time she chose not to co-operate with him. Niako had a strained relationship with the Nazi authorities. Her career suffered owing to the Sosnowski affair and she was rarely allowed to perform. In early 1938 she was arrested for treason but shortly thereafter pardoned. She made some further film appearances; her last known acting role was a dancer in the German propaganda film Carl Peters (1941). Niako survived the end of World War II and held dance performances in Berlin as late as 1950. The eventual date of her death is unknown. (en)
  • Lea Niako de son vrai nom Maria Kruse (née en 1908 à Hambourg, elle serait morte assassinée à Berlin en 1945[réf. souhaitée]) était une actrice et ballerine allemande. Elle fait la rencontre de l'espion polonais avec qui elle vit une aventure. Ils sont tous deux interpellés pour espionnage le 24 février 1935 par la Gestapo. Walter Schellenberg du SD propose de la récupérer pour en faire une espionne, ce qu'approuve Heydrich. On ignore son parcours après la guerre. (fr)
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  • Maria Kruse (en)
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  • Maria Kruse (en)
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  • Photograph by Wilhelm Willinger, 1927 (en)
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  • Photographs by of Niako performing in Warsaw in 1932 (en)
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  • Involvement with Polish spy Jerzy Sosnowski (en)
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  • Lea Niako (Hanburgo, 1908-Berlin?, 1945 inguruan) Lea Maria Kruseren izen artistikoa zen, baita ere Berlingo Dantzaria gisa ezaguna izan zen. Dantzaria, aktorea, artista eta espioia izan zen. Artista gisa nackttanz koreografiako mugimenduaren partaidea izan zen; mugimendu horretan protagonistak askotan publiko aurrean ia biluzik ateratzen ziren. Espezialisten arabera biluztasun hori askapen-keinu gisa ulertu behar zen. (eu)
  • Lea Niako de son vrai nom Maria Kruse (née en 1908 à Hambourg, elle serait morte assassinée à Berlin en 1945[réf. souhaitée]) était une actrice et ballerine allemande. Elle fait la rencontre de l'espion polonais avec qui elle vit une aventure. Ils sont tous deux interpellés pour espionnage le 24 février 1935 par la Gestapo. Walter Schellenberg du SD propose de la récupérer pour en faire une espionne, ce qu'approuve Heydrich. On ignore son parcours après la guerre. (fr)
  • Lea Maria Kruse, conocida artísticamente como Lea Niako o La Bailarina de Berlín (Hamburgo, 1908-Berlín?, no antes de 1945), fue una bailarina, actriz y espía alemana de ascendencia asiática cuya actividad artística se encuadró dentro del movimiento coreográfico denominado nackttanz, en que sus protagonistas llegaban a actuar en ocasiones prácticamente desnudas ante el público, lo que viene siendo interpretado por algunos investigadores como un «gesto de emancipación».​ (es)
  • Maria Kruse (1908–?), better known by her stage name Lea Niako, was a German exotic dancer and actress. Niako was renowned across Europe for her dance performances in the late interwar period, from 1926 to 1933. She often performed with little to no clothes; nude dancing, or nackttanz, was at the time popular and was seen as an artistic expression of modernity and emancipation. For her unusual and exotic performances, she garnered great attention in the international press. She also broke through into the film industry, appearing in the Portuguese film Fátima Milagrosa (1928) and the Spanish film La Carta (1931). (en)
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