-
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
Photographed
