A random collection of over 1910 books and audiobooks authored by or about my transgender, intersex sisters, and gender-nonconforming persons all over the world. I read some of them, and I was inspired by some of them. I met some of the authors and heroines, some of them are my best friends, and I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing some of them. If you know of any transgender biography that I have not covered yet, please let me know.
Original title: "Vom Hitlerjungen zur Domina: Ein transsexuelles Leben im 20. Jahrhundert (Lebensgeschichte)" (From Hitler Youth to Domina: A Transsexual Life in the 20th Century - Life Story)
Kirsten Nilsson was born in 1931 as Karl Erick Böttcher in a tranquil village in Germany. Shortly before the end of the 2nd World War in 1945, the family fled from the Red Army from Küstrin to Upper Bavaria, where Karl Erick first trained as a hairdresser, then a costume tailor.
In Munich, in the post-war period, he studied acting and dance, immersed himself in the gay scene, and worked at the circus in England and Switzerland before he found his vocation as "Sylvia" at the end of the 50s as a "lady impersonator" in the travesty clubs of Munich, Berlin, and Hamburg.
2017,
German,
Kirsten Nilsson,
Linda Strehl,
