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Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born in Berlin on 22 August 1902. Her father, Alfred Theodor Paul Riefenstahl, [page needed] owned a successful heating and ventilation company and wanted his daughter to follow him into the business world. Since Riefenstahl was the only child for several years, Alfred wanted her to carry on the family name and secure the family fortune. However, her mother, Bertha Ida (Scherlach), who had been a part-time seamstress before her marriage, had faith in ...
Jul 5, 2024 · Leni Riefenstahl (born August 22, 1902, Berlin, Germany—died September 8, 2003, Pöcking) was a German motion-picture director, actress, producer, and photographer who is best known for her documentary films of the 1930s dramatizing the power and pageantry of the Nazi movement.. Riefenstahl studied painting and ballet in Berlin, and from 1923 to 1926 she appeared in dance programs throughout Europe.She began her motion-picture career as an actress in “mountain films”—a type of German ...
Leni Riefenstahl was a German dancer, actress, and film director best known for her imposing propaganda films in support of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
Sep 9, 2003 · Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic genius ...
Helene „Leni“ Riefenstahl kam am 22. August 1902 in der Prinz-Eugen-Straße 9, dritter Stock, Berlin-Wedding zur Welt. Dreieinhalb Jahre später wurde ihr Bruder Heinz (1906–1944) geboren. Ihr Vater Alfred Riefenstahl (1878–1944) war ein Handwerksmeister, der sich einen eigenen Installateurbetrieb aufgebaut hatte.
LENI RIEFENSTAHL was born in Berlin in 1902. She studied painting and started her artistic career as a dancer. She became already so famous after her first dance hat Max Reinhardt engaged her for the »Deutsches Theater«.
Leni Riefenstahl. Leni Riefenstahl was born to a wealthy Berlin family in 1902 and spent her teenage years as a ballet dancer. In 1925 she transitioned into cinema and became a prominent actress, appearing in several successful movies, including Der Heilige Berg (1925) and Der Grosse Sprung (1927). In 1932 she wrote and directed Das Blaue Licht (‘The Blue Light’), an escapist fantasy that proved popular with audiences struggling at the height of the Great Depression. It won Riefenstahl ...
Introduction Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.
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Leni Riefenstahl was acclaimed as a cinematic genius -- and ostracized after World War II as a propagandist for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, which financed her films. The monumental vision of ...
