Rifenshtal biography

Bibliography is a biography of a German by nationality, Leni Rifenshtal lived an amazingly long life long a year. During this time, she managed to prove herself as a film director-documentary and photographer, dancer and actress, as well as to know both worship and hatred. Without realizing this, the woman promoted the Nazi party and the bloody activity of her leader.

Despite such a gloomy spot in the biography, Rifenshtal was able to realize herself in various fields of art and introduce her own name to world history. Childhood and youth of Berte Helena Amalia Rifenshtal was born on August 22 in the Wedding working area, located in the German capital. The girl’s family was many children, she grew up with three brothers, one of which - Hinz - was only 2.5 years younger than Helena.

The father of the Alfred family was the owner of a large company engaged in the sale and installation of heating and ventilation devices. Helena's mother was called Bert Ida. Twice a week for 5 years, the father drove her to an art school. Further, the girl began to engage in painting and quite successfully-truly high-quality landscapes came out of her brush.

Despite this, neither drawing nor music classes aroused special interest in her. In fact, Leni dreamed of dancing. Although Alfred was categorically against this, the mother supported her daughter’s desire and took her side. In M, the woman began to secretly drive Helena to the choreographic class. The first public performance of a novice dancer led to a scandal in the family of Rifenshtal.

Father blurted out in anger that he would send his child to a closed -type boarding school. In an effort to avoid such a fate, the girl agreed to enter the Berlin Art College, in which she began to study painting. Alfred released the situation from control only when the matured Helen promised to escape from the house if she was not allowed to speak on stage.

Embed from Getty images Leni Rifenshtal in her youth did not lose - she had an unconditional talent for dancing.

In his youth, joining the troupe of the German theater, the girl showed brilliantly performed both single performances and in the general composition. She managed to harmoniously combine innovative ideas and classic PA. However, in the future, Leni connected her fate not at all with dancing. Due to the rupture of the ligaments and long recovery, the doctors issued a verdict: such physical activity was strictly prohibited for her.

And then the girl began to look for a new hobby for herself. The acting career in the year on large screens was released by the film "Mountain of Fate", which started well at the box office. Leni Rifenshtal, who appeared at one of the sessions, left the cinema as an updated person. The girl was so impressed by the picture that she decided at all costs to get acquainted with the creator of the project - director Arnold Fank.

The man at the first meeting was also fascinated by Helena, to such an extent that he composed the script for his new project called "The Holy Mountain" specifically for her. The girl was preparing intensely for the beginning of the filming - she studied climbing with professionals and skiing. Leni Rifenstal Frame from the film "Blue Light" after playing a debut role, the filmography of Rifenstal was replenished with several more films, such as the "Big Jump" by the GO, "white madness - a new ski miracle" go.

Having gained experience, she realized that she was capable of something more. In the year, the premiere of her own film called "Blue Light" - laziness appeared as an actress, and director, and screenwriter. Rifenshtal transformed into the main character named Yunt. The ribbon about a woman with a contradictory and difficult fate, filled with mysticism and mystery, was to Adolf Hitler himself.

Director in February Hitler made his fiery propaganda speech within the walls of the Berlin Sports Palace. Among the spectators who were present there was Leni Rifenshtal. She so admired the Oratory of Fuhrer that she decided to certainly inform him of this in a letter. The answer was not long in coming - Adolf, who by that time was already familiar with the picture "Blue Light", he himself wanted to communicate closer to the talented creator of the movie.

Embed from Getty images Leni Rifenshtal on the set and the reasons for this were not only purely personal-Hitler at that time was actively looking for a director who would deal with the shooting of a documentary about the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Rifenshtal, who was still under the influence of the charm and charisma of the leader of the Third Reich, happily accepted his proposal.

In April, she began to work on the creation of the film "Triumph of Will". Adolf set a difficult but understandable task in front of the crew - thus showing the party and its leader so that it appears to the audience in the most profitable light. More people worked on the documentary, 30 cameras and the same number of operators were involved.Each of them was obliged to learn to easily skate right during the filming process in order to remove episodes in motion.

Installation of the film lasted more than 6 months. Embed from Getty images Leni Rifenshtal and Adolf Hitler in the spring of Go Fuhrer was able to evaluate the works of his team - the long -awaited mounted film in the timing was completely ready for showing large screens of Germany. Success was stunning. Rifenshtal, who instantly received recognition, and with him awards, decided to compose a book that the documentary was left behind the scope of the tape.

Cooperation with Adolf Hitler ensured laziness of a comfortable existence. The talented and multifaceted artist was happy in any society, and professional sentences came one after another. However, only some of them were consent to some of them. The director set about shooting the film "Olympia", which tells about the Olympic Games of Go who held in Berlin. And to this day, this picture is considered to be a model of documentary.

Operators moved along specialized rails, which facilitated their work. And when there was a need for filming in the air, it was decided to place the cameras in the airships. Hitler was delighted with the result: the movie turned out to be modern and not straightforwardly propaganda. However, she did not have to stay behind the ocean for long - information about the Jewish pogroms that the Fuhrer's followers arranged for the Americans.

The mayor of New York proposed prohibiting the “Triumph of Will” for showing, and Helen first thought that she had made a fatal mistake, agreeing to sing the Nazi regime. The Embed from Getty images Leni Rifenshtal shoots the film "Olympia" further, gradually learning about the details of cruelty from the ruling party, Rifenshtel tried to move away from cooperation with Hitler. After some time, Leni began to perceive the “triumph of will” as its mistake, claiming in the infrequent interview that it was absolutely apolitical.

Later, the artist admitted that she was influenced by Adolf Hitler, who had an unconditional gift of conviction. However, her excuses were touched by few by the soul. When the overthrow of the political regime occurred, Leni Rifenshtal projects stopped financing. Embed from Getty images Leni Rifenstal performs the film in M. The woman was subjected to denacing, which all followers of the Nazi regime were obliged to “cleanse” from old ideas.

The director was arrested, after which it was sent by force to a psychiatric hospital, where the "treatment" by an electric shock took place. Leni did not stop praying that such horror would quickly come to an end. Having survived the terrible emotional and physical shocks, the woman wanted to restore lost strength. In April, when Rifenshtal was 53 years old, she went on a trip to hot Africa.

However, instead of the camcorder, Leni carried a camera with her everywhere. Returning to her homeland, the woman sent the received photos to the editor of some glossy magazines that were successfully published. Of course, the matter was not without a camera for the underwater filming that a woman took with her to fix what she saw. In total, Rifenshtal made about 2 thousand dives in his life.

The result of its perennial works was the photo albums "Miracle underwater" and "Coral Gardens", as well as the documentary "Coral Paradise". In the year, she presented an album with a photo chronicle from the life of the Nubians - the inhabitants of the Nobe tribe. The work was called "people who came from another star." Personal life personal life of a cult woman developed actively, as well as creative.

Among her lovers, among whom, according to rumors, was the cult German writer Erich Maria Remarck and husbands went many rumors. Young people met in the year on the set of the painting "Valley", which took place in Austria. The man arrived there to recover after being wounded and star in the film as a stuntman. The wedding of the lovers took place on March 21 in the Austrian resort city of Kitsbuel.

Horst Kettner and Leni Rifenshtal in recent years, the second and last spouse Rifenstal became the film operator Horst Ketner, who was 40 years younger than his chosen one in recent years. They lived together until the death of Helena. In old age, a woman was sad about only one thing - that she could not have children. The height and weight of laziness are not known for certain.

Death to the cause of the death of Leni Rifenstal was a malignant tumor. She died on September 8, 2 weeks after her birthday. Cremation took place 4 days later, the ashes were buried in the Waldfriedhof cemetery in Munich.