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Index to the Life of Leni Riefenstahl, film-maker

- ADL chief’s outrage as 2004 Oscars ceremony honours Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl’s home page | another good website besides her own
- Daily Irving diary on meeting with Leni Riefenstahl, Jul 14, 1989
- Orange County Register, Dec 7, 1999: Making a Riefenstahl biopic: Why bother?
- New York Daily News, December 2, 1999: Jodie Foster to star in film about one of the world’s most controversial figures
- The Times, Jan 7, 1999: “Hitler’s beloved film-maker comes in from the cold”
- Globe & Mail reports, Dec 2000: “Even at 98, Leni’s will still triumphs”
Death at 101 of Hitler’s film-maker Leni Riefenstahl Obituaries: The Times | Neue Zürcher Zeitung | Spiegel | Bild | Süddeutsche Zeitung | The Guardian: Leni Riefenstahl. The German film director and photographer whose career was curtailed by antipathy to her status as Hitler’s favourite film-maker | The San Diego Union Tribune: Hitler’s filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, revered and reviled for her work, dies at 101 | Washington Post: German Film Director, Leni Riefenstahl, Dies at 101 | BBC News | New York Times: Leni Riefenstahl, Filmmaker and Nazi Propagandist, Dies at 101 | Der Spiegel: “Es gibt keinen Dokumentarfilm, der nicht von ihr beeinflusst ist” | Berliner Zeitung: Die Unberührbare: Die Regisseurin Leni Riefenstahl ist im Alter von 101 Jahren gestorben – ein Nachruf | Süddeutsche Zeitung: Leni Riefenstahl: Das Vermächtnis der Kriegerin | “Eine Shakespeare-Gestalt im Mythos des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts”: Werner Bräuninger writes on Riefenstahl
- Sergei Romanov of Moscow, draws parallels between film makers Sergei Eisenstein and Leni Riefenstahl (Letter) | Bill Anchors reflects on her life | John Taylor of South Africa spots a significant excision from The Independent’s obituary of Riefenstahl | Postscript on Lenin Riefenstahl >: letter from Chicago Sun-Times film critic
- Leni Riefenstahl: Jodie Foster to play part of Nazi film making genius Leni Riefenstahl after all | more | comments
– Taking a cowardly kick at a legend no longer able to defend herself: Leni: fully exposed, reviewed in The Observer – Flashback: Daily Telegraph, Oct 5, 2000: Jodie Foster film about Hitler aide angers Jews | Riefenstahl opposes Jodie Foster’s plans to make a film of her life
- David Irving visits Leni Riefenstahl in 1989 (from the Irving memoirs)
Outlinks:
A biography with many links
Internet Movie Databank
The Trials and Triumphs of Leni Riefenstahl
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) – Video review
“Wherever you may run, you cannot escape him”: Leni Riefenstahl’s Self- Reflection and Romantic Transcendence of Nazism in Tiefland
Leni Riefenstahl und der deutsche Bergfilm (images)
Leni Riefenstahl.Tänzerin, Regisseurin, Photographin (Biographie)

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