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Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Karin Wieland
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Description for Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Paperback. This magisterial dual biography illuminates two complex lives that began alike but were on opposite sides of the Second World War. Translator(s): Frisch, Shelley. Num Pages: 624 pages, 25 photographs. BIC Classification: APB; BGF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 231 x 36. Weight in Grams: 812.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631492280
SKU
V9781631492280
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99-15
About Karin Wieland
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
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 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 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 ... epic, enthralling tome about two of the 20th century's most compelling artists...
The Independent ...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
The Guardian 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 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 ... epic, enthralling tome about two of the 20th century's most compelling artists...
The Independent ...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