Lilo Wanders

Ernie Reinhardt, better known as Lilo Wanders, (born 22 September 1955 in Celle as Ernst-Johann Reinhardt) is a famous German transvestite entertainer, comedian and theatre/television host.

Reinhardt attended the Gymnasium Walsrode and went on to become an entertainer. He was one of the founders of the Schmidt-Theater on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in 1988. From 1994 on until 2004 he was in his transvestite role as Lilo Wanders the host(es) of the German TV sex/erotic show Wa(h)re Liebe (a pun on true love and commodity love) on VOX.

He has described himself as being gay; nevertheless, he has a wife, two children and one foster child. Reinhardt and his family also lived with a second man in the past.

• Lilo Wanders: Tja, meine Lieben, Econ 1997, ISBN 3-612-26361-7
• Lilo Wanders: Wa(h)re Liebe – A-Z, Heel 2001, ISBN 3-89880-021-0
• Lilo Wanders: Exotische Scharfmacher, Europa Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 3-203-85055-9