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A Danish court annulled the couple's marriage in October 1930, [35] and Elbe was able to have her sex and name legally changed, even receiving a passport as Lili Ilse Elvenes. [36] The name "Lili Elbe" was first used in print in a Danish newspaper article written by Copenhagen journalist Louise "Loulou" Lassen for Politiken in February 1931.
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 .
The Danish Girl has been criticised as being written similarly to forced feminization erotica, obscuring the actual story of a historical transgender woman, [59] [60] and for being based on a fictional book that does not tell the true story of Elbe and Wegener.
Her story has since been told in her autobiography, Man into Woman: The First Sex Change, and, most recently, in The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff -- which was later adapted into a film in 2016.
Looking back. Though Eddie Redmayne received an Oscar nomination for his role of Lili Elbe in 2015’s The Danish Girl, he caught flak from critics who felt he was the wrong choice for the ...
Warning: This post contains spoilers from The Girl With the Needle. In Denmark, most people know at least the basic facts of the horrifying true story that makes up the backbone of the new film ...
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.
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