Leni Riefenstahl

Berta Helene Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (August 22, 1902 - September 8, 2003) was a German actress, director and filmmaker widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film technique. Her most famous works are documentary propaganda films for the German Nazi Party. Rejected by the film industry after World War II, she later became a photographer.

Works

Actor

• Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit - Ein Film über moderne Körperkultur (Ways to Strength and Beauty, 1926)
• Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain, 1926)
• Der Große Sprung (The Great Leap, 1927)
• Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg (The Destiny of the Habsburgs, 1928)
• Der Weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (The White Hell of Pitz Palu, 1929)
• Stürme über dem Mont Blanc (Storm Over Mont Blanc, 1930)
• Der Weiße Rausch (The White Flame, 1931)
• Das Blaue Licht (The Blue Light, 1932)
• SOS Eisberg (SOS Iceberg, 1933)
• Tiefland (Lowlands, 1954)

Director

• Das Blaue Licht (The Blue Light, 1932)
• Der Sieg des Glaubens (Victory of Faith, 1933)
• Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will 1934)
• Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht (Day of Freedom, 1935)
• Olympia (Part 1 known as Festival of the Nations, Part 2 as Festival of Beauty, 1938)
• Tiefland (Lowlands, 1954)
• Impressionen unter Wasser (Underwater Impressions, 2002)

Photographer

• The Last of the Nuba (Harper, 1974; St. Martin's Press, 1995, ISBN 0312136420)
• The People of Kau (Harper, 1976; St. Martin's Press reprint edition, 1997, ISBN 0312169639)
• Vanishing Africa (Harmony 1st American edition, 1988, ISBN 051754914X)
• Africa (Taschen, 2002, ISBN 3822816167)
• Riefenstahl Olympia (Taschen, 2002, ISBN 382281945X)

Author

• Leni Riefenstahl by Leni Riefenstahl, autobiography (Picador Reprint edition, 1995, ISBN 0312119267)
• Coral Gardens by Leni Riefenstahl (Harpercollins 1st U.S. edition, 1978, ISBN 0060135913)