Selected fan mail
These selected letters are not representative in a statistical sense – however, they might give an impression of fan letter writing in the 1910s (and early 1920s). Unlike in our future project publications, strict philological editing principles have not been applied to the transcripts and translations shown here. The English translations provided should be considered as preliminary working translations.
The letters are shown by courtesy of the Danish Film Institute, the University Library Lund and the Royal Library Copenhagen. Please contact us if you have rights to these letters – we do not want to infringe these rights.
Fan letter of the month, February 2026:
- »En forelsket« (»One in love«) (Denmark), undated, to Olaf Fønss
- Anita B. (France), 7.1.1912, to Clara Wieth
- Pavel Pavlovitsch Pirkovskij-ter-Prytynkovich (Russia), 2.2.1913, to Clara Wieth
- Erna von Dassel (Germany), 28.1.1914, to Olaf Fønss
- Irene Hlavazek (Austria), 24.5.1914, to Olaf Fønss
- Viviane Castora (France), 9.6.1914, to Olaf Fønss
- Herna López (Cuba), 7.12.1914, to Betty Nansen
- Hano & August from somewhere in Russia, 25.1.1916, to Asta Nielsen
- L. Boyce (England), 20.2.1916, to Asta Nielsen
- Maria von Wallenstern (Germany), 21.7.1916, to Valdemar Psilander
- Five girls from Kapfenberg (Austria), 15.5.1917, to Olaf Fønss
- Rita Bertolai [?] & Mimi Marjan (Austria), undated (but probably from 1917), to Olaf Fønss
- Csöby Keresztény & Idus Réthy (Hungary), 27.6.1917, to Olaf Fønss
- Maja Gilardone (Germany), 11.9.1917, to Olaf Fønss
- Elfriede L[...] (Germany), 30.10.1917, to Olaf Fønss
- ›Fräulein X‹ (Denmark), 25.12.1917, to Olaf Fønss
- Teruwo Sakuma (Japan), 8.8.1919, to Emilie Sannom
- Sofie Ruppert (Czechoslovakia), 28.10.1919, to Olaf Fønss
- Libor Navrátil (Czechoslovakia), 1.2.1920, to Olaf Fønss
- Maria Stamberg (Czechoslovakia), 9.10.1920, to Olaf Fønss
- Olof Appelqvist (Sweden), 13.4.1920, to Asta Nielsen
- Curtis S. Staniland (England), 1.7.1921, to Clara Wieth
- André Piron (Belgium), 27.2.1922, to Olaf Fønss
- Else Krebs (Germany), 16.9.1922, to Olaf Fønss
(DFI, the only existing fan letter to Valdemar Psilander)