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Lili Elbe

Lili Ilse Elvenes, better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery.

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culture · Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931) · painter · also Lili Elbe, Lili Ilse Elvenes, Einar Mogens Andreas Wegener, Einar Wegener, Elbe

Born 28 December 1882 · Died 13 September 1931 · Q1140735

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Albuquerque Journal: U.S. premiere of trans opera ‘Lili Elbe’ a triumph
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The Santa Fe New Mexican: 'Lili Elbe' 101: A Danish visual artist undergoes a voyage of self-discovery and gender transformation
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2026· 5 entries

Aug 8, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Albuquerque Journal: U.S. premiere of trans opera ‘Lili Elbe’ a triumph

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Jul 31, 2026Documented record69% confidence

The Santa Fe New Mexican: 'Lili Elbe' 101: A Danish visual artist undergoes a voyage of self-discovery and gender transformation

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Jul 22, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Bay Area Reporter: Tobias Picker’s ‘Lili Elbe’ – Historic trans life gets an operatic tribute

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Jul 11, 2026Documented record75% confidence

Public attention spiked: 2,859 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 675, with 0 article edits.

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2026Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

It was announced that The Danish Girl would be adapted into a stage musical

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2023· 2 entries

Dec 1, 2023Documented record69% confidence

BroadwayWorld: Tobias Picker's New Opera LILI ELBE To Stream On OperaVision, December 8

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Dec 1, 2023Documented record69% confidence

BroadwayWorld: Tobias Picker's New Opera LILI ELBE Will Stream on OperaVision

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2015· 1 entry

2015Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

It was made into a film of the same name, produced by Gail Mutrux and Neil LaBute, starring Eddie Redmayne as Elbe

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2000· 1 entry

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David Ebershoff wrote The Danish Girl, a fictionalized account of Elbe's life

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Under the title Man into Woman: An Authentic Record of a Change of Sex

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1931· 3 entries

Sep 13, 1931Documented record86% confidence

Died 1931-09-13.

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Elbe returned for her fourth surgery, to transplant a uterus and construct a vaginal canal

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1931Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Lili Elbe was living in Denmark collaborating with her friend, Ernst Harthern, on a memoir of her life

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1930· 2 entries

1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Changed her legal name to Lili Ilse Elvenes, stopped painting, and later adopted the surname Elbe

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1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Elbe went to Germany for sex reassignment surgery, which was highly experimental at the time

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1912· 1 entry

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Where Elbe could live more openly as a woman by posing as Gottlieb's sister-in-law

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1907· 1 entry

1907Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And exhibited at Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (the Artists' Fall Exhibition) at the Vejle Art Museum in Denmark, where she remains represented, and in the Saloon and Salon d'Automne in Paris

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1904· 2 entries

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When Elbe would have been just eighteen if the 1886 date were correct

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1904Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

When Gottlieb was nineteen and Elbe twenty-two

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1882· 2 entries

Dec 28, 1882Documented record86% confidence

Born 1882-12-28.

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1882Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

In Vejle, Denmark, the child of Ane Marie Thomsen and spice merchant Mogens Wilhelm Wegener, according to the registry at St

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