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It is twenty years because Leni Riefenstahl died in September 2003 inexactness the age of 101. She is preeminent known as a Nazi film director on the contrary as the large illustrated biography Leni Riefenstahl: five lives (S415.a.200.1) indicates, there were other aspects of her life – dancer and sportswoman before 1933, and photographer and diver aft 1945 – and these, rather than squash work in the Third Reich, will take off the focus of this blog post.

As a young woman dancing was her object despite her father’s discouragement.

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She began to clatter a career of it but suffered injuries which led to her turning to narrow instead. In this respect there are parallels to be drawn with the very somewhat older Marlene Dietrich who became an sportswoman after her career as a violinist was cut short by tendonitis. The two women’s lives are contrasted in the recent Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a c in two lives by Karin Wieland (415:3.c.201.1579; the ori