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- The author has stated that the novel does not try to tell a true story. Ebershoff not only imagined most of what he wrote about Elbe's inner life, but also fabricated all of the other characters in the book, most important among them Wegener's blue-blooded American-born wife, Gerda Wegener.
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Nov 24, 2015 · Yes. The true story behind The Danish Girl confirms that Einar Wegener's transformation into Lili Elbe ultimately led to her death. She died from paralysis of the heart due to organ rejection roughly three months after undertaking her fifth and final sex-change operation in June 1931.
Gerda Wegener is portrayed by Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in the 2015 film The Danish Girl, also starring British actor Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe. The film received some criticism for obscuring the actual story of a historical trans person and omitting certain facts [11] and for being based on a fictional book that does not tell the true ...
- Gerda Marie Frederikke Gottlieb, 15 March 1886, Hammelev, Denmark
- 28 July 1940 (aged 54), Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Artist, illustrator, painter
Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of sex reassignment surgery (gender-affirming surgery). She was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener.
- Lili Ilse Elvenes, (legal name)
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- Einar Wegener, 28 December 1882, Vejle, Denmark
The author has stated that the novel does not try to tell a true story. Ebershoff not only imagined most of what he wrote about Elbe's inner life, but also fabricated all of the other characters in the book, most important among them Wegener's blue-blooded American-born wife, Gerda Wegener .
- David Ebershoff
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Sep 28, 2015 · The Danish Girl tells the story of the painter Einar Wegener, who had the world’s first gender-reassignment surgery and became Lili Elbe. But his wife Gerda had a fascinating life and...
Jan 12, 2016 · Based on a true story, The Danish Girl is an extraordinary tale of love, commitment and revolutionary behaviour. By Stephanie Bunbury January 12, 2016 — 2.23pm
