Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Informationen zum Autor Karin Wieland lives in Berlin and is an historian of political theory at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture. Shelley Frisch is the prize-winning translator of biographies of Nietzsche, Einstein, and Kafka. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Klappentext Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, born less than a year apart, lived so close to each other that Riefenstahl could see into Dietrich's Berlin flat. Coming of age in the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's silent film industry. While Dietrich's depiction of Lola Lola in The Blue Angel catapulted her to Hollywood stardom, Riefenstahl-who missed out on the part-insinuated herself into Hitler's inner circle and directed Nazi propaganda films, most famously, Triumph of the Will. Dietrich could never truly go home again, while Riefenstahl was contaminated by her political associations. Moving deftly between two stories never before told together, Karin Wieland contextualises these lives, chronicling revolutions in politics, fame and sexuality on a grand stage. Zusammenfassung This magisterial dual biography illuminates two complex lives that began alike but were on opposite sides of the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Karin Wieland, Wieland Karin
• Assisted by: Shelley Frisch (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2016
• EAN: 9781631492280
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-228-0
• Series: Liveright
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Individual actors & performers, Biography: arts & entertainment, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry