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Leni Riefenstahl

By miss_dee_23

  • Leni is born

  • Attended Grimm Reiter School for Dance

  • Period: to

    Professional dance career

    Soloist at Munich Tonhalle
    Recieved mostly postive reviews
    Tore a ligament in her knee

  • Ways to Strength and Beauty is released

    FILM DEBUT

  • The Holy Mountain is released

    Riefenstahl acted. Recieved successful reviews

  • Hitler runs for president and fails

  • Reichstag election

    NSDAP is the strongest party with 37.3% of votes

  • Directed the Blue Light

    Wins 1933 Venice Biennale, silver

  • Meeting with Hitler at Wilhelmshaven

    Suggests she work for him

  • Reichstag election - NSDAP loses 34 seats

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • State film industry established

    Jews were banned from the film industry

  • Victory of Faith is filmed

  • Night of the Long Knives

  • Nuremburg Rally

    Riefenstahl films and makes Triumph of the Will

  • Nuremburg laws came into place

  • Triumph of the Will is released

    Wins German Film Prize, 1935

  • Berlin Olympics

  • Olympia is released

    Won German film award

  • Axis surrender

  • Released from American custody in Austria

    Post WWII, taken into Amercian custody. Released and put on house arrest in Kitzbuhel.
    Rearrested by French when they siezed Kitzbuhel

  • Potsdam conference

    Leni is announced as a Nazi sympathiser
  • Nuba photography

    Nuba photography

    Photographed