Willibald von Sadler-Grün was a Baltic German aristocrat and was associated with Magnus Hirschfield's Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee before the Great War. He was a noted transvestite, and with Herman von Teschenberg was photographed en femme for the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen.
Sadler-Grün performed on stage, often under the name Urany Verde, and made a tour of Germany. He usually performed in the role of either a queen or a princess, and sang soprano as well as baritone.
- W.S. "Vom Weibmann auf der Bühne. Eine Studie"(Women on Stage). Jahrbücher für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, 1901.
- Iwan Bloch. The Sexual Life of Our Time In Its Relations to Modern Civilization. London: Heinemann, 1908: 500.
- C.J. Bulliet. Venus Castina : famous female impersonators, celestial and human. Bonanza Books, 1928: 129.
- Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller. “Sadler-Grün, Willibald von”. Mann für Mann: biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte von Freundesliebe und mannmännlicher Sexualität im deutschen Sprachraum. 1, A - Ras. Münster [u.a.]: Lit-Verl, 2010: 602-3.
- Robert Beachy. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Alfred A Knoff, 2014: 61.
Grün is German for green, Verde is Spanish for green. Urany Verde is Green Uranian. Uranian is the anglicization of Ulrich's Urning.
I have found no mention indicating that Willibad survived the First World War.
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