Dietrich & Riefenstahl

Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Karin Wieland, Shelley Frisch, Ph.D.

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English

Liveright
11 November 2016

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Biography: arts & entertainment; Gender studies: women; Cinema industry

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 apartment. Coming of age at the dawn of the Weimar Republic, both sought fame in Germany's burgeoning motion picture 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 to direct groundbreaking if infamous Nazi propaganda films, like Triumph of the Will. Dietrich, who toured tirelessly with the USO, could never truly go home again; Riefenstahl could never shake her Nazi past. Acclaimed German historian Karin Wieland examines these lives within the vicious crosscurrents of a turbulent century, evoking piercing insights into ""the modern era's most difficult questions, about illusion and mass intoxication, art and truth, courage and capitulation"" (New Yorker).

By: Karin Wieland
Translated by: Shelley Frisch Ph.D.
Imprint: Liveright
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 814g
ISBN: 9781631492280
ISBN 10: 1631492284
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 11 November 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

...classical in scope and style. It [Dietrich & Riefenstahl] puts together cradle-to-grave biographies of two women who hardly met, offering admirably researched accounts that leave barely a telegram or plot summary unturned. -- The Telegraph ... epic, enthralling tome about two of the 20th century's most compelling artists... -- The Independent Wieland offers abundant - and now and then overwhelming - material and produces a captivating chronological narrative that is rich in sources... The emerging story is fascinating... -- Times Higher Education In telling their stories, Karin Wieland has decided to juxtapose their lives without making the comparisons explicit. This can be very effective: she is an evocative scene setter and so it is easy to grasp the implication that both women were created by their time and place. -- Literary Review Newly translated dual biography by German historian provides an illuminating look at two famous, ambitious women who reacted very differently to the Nazis...Via a fluent, often witty translation by Shelley Frisch, Wieland draws the portrait of women who were ambitious to a degree stunning in their day. -- The Guardian