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Nov 24, 2015 · 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.
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
Sep 8, 2015 · Lili Elbe was born Einar Wegener in Vejle, Denmark in 1882 and moved to Copenhagen to study art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts as a teenager. After marrying Gerda Gottlieb, Elbe...
Nov 25, 2015 · In The Danish Girl, based on a true story, Redmayne plays Lili Elbe, a Danish trans woman and, as the movie asserts, one of the first known individuals to undergo gender confirmation surgery....
- Zainab Akande
The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff 's 2000 novel about them was an international best-seller and was translated into a dozen languages. 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.
- Gerda Marie Frederikke Gottlieb, 15 March 1886, Hammelev, Denmark
- 28 July 1940 (aged 54), Frederiksberg, Denmark
- Artist, illustrator, painter
Sep 2, 2015 · Their marriage reaches a turning point when Einar "begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world's first transgender women, Lili Elbe."
The Danish Girl is a novel by American writer David Ebershoff, published in 2000 by the Viking Press in the United States and Allen & Unwin in Australia. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
