Category:Elvira Madigan
Elvira Madigan, born Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen (4 December 1867 – 19 July 1889) was a Danish tightrope walker and trick rider famous for her illicit affair and dramatic death at the hands of her lover. While performing in Sweden she met a Swedish cavalry officer, Lieutenant Count Bengt Edvard Sixten Sparre. The two became lovers but their love was impossible, partly due to the fact that Sparre was married and the father of two children. They ran away together to Denmark in June 1889, where they spent about a month. When they ran out of money, they packed a picnic basket, went out to the Nørreskov ("North forest") on the island Tåsinge, Denmark, and had a last meal, after which Sparre shot Madigan and himself with his service revolver. Madigan's and Sparre's grave is situated on the cemetery of Landet on Tåsinge and is still today visited by tourists and lovers from all over the world. Their tragic love story has been the subject of three films, the most famous of which is Bo Widerberg's Elvira Madigan produced in Sweden in 1967.
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Date of birth | 4 December 1867 Flensburg Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen | ||||
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Media in category "Elvira Madigan"
The following 21 files are in this category, out of 21 total.
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Elvira 8801 Marcus Y(1).jpg 785 × 1,107; 257 KB
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Elvira Madigan (1888) sepia.jpg 2,500 × 3,150; 1.91 MB
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Elvira Madigan (1888).jpg 2,500 × 3,150; 735 KB
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Elvira Madigan 1886.jpg 387 × 622; 195 KB
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Elvira Madigan by J A Braae.jpg 421 × 673; 75 KB
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Elvira Madigan ca 1885.jpg 1,000 × 1,511; 443 KB
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Elvira Madigan ca 1886.jpg 799 × 1,133; 246 KB
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Elvira Madigan og Sixten Sparres grav.jpg 3,283 × 2,462; 3.93 MB
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Elvira Madigan og Sixten Sparres gravar.JPG 3,648 × 2,736; 3.52 MB
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Elvira Madigan.jpg 362 × 500; 65 KB
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ElviraMadigan01.jpg 350 × 494; 21 KB
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Hedvig Jensen.jpg 3,264 × 2,448; 2.43 MB
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Nordenskirker Landet(01).jpg 800 × 544; 83 KB
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Poster for Ciniselli's circus, Saint-Petersburg 23. april 1879.jpg 735 × 1,544; 1,016 KB
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SixtenBanjo67.JPG 3,264 × 2,448; 2.41 MB
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Skt. Jørgens Kirke.JPG 1,925 × 1,210; 640 KB
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Bengt Edvard Sixten Sparre ca 1889.jpg 425 × 600; 46 KB
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Bengt Edvard Sixten Sparre ca. 1889.jpg 425 × 600; 72 KB
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