Life and legacy
Ebel was born on 10 November 1881 and died on 9 June 1961. She was among the first trans women to receive gender-affirming surgery.
Literature
Toni Ebel
German painter and one of the first trans women to receive gender-affirming surgery.
Toni Ebel was a painter and a member of the housekeeping staff at Berlin’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. She lived and worked within the institute’s trans community during the early 1930s.
Worth knowing
Painter and institute worker
Ebel was a painter and worked as housekeeping staff at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.
The institute’s Berlin memorial
The Memorial Stele for the Institute for Sexual Science marks the institution where Ebel lived and worked within its trans community during the early 1930s.
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Lived here
Memorial Stele for the Institute for Sexual Science
The artist lived and worked within the institute's trans community during the early 1930s.
Follow the story on foot
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