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Read [Karin Wieland Book] ! Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives Elmer J. Hoeffer said this was a wonderful review of the era leading up to mine and. At 91 years old, this was a wonderful review of the era leading up to mine and through it. Well written, informative details, and objective.. Just an excellent book ! Riefenstahl and Dietrich were both totally self-absorbed, maybe even narcissists. They were focused and ambitious. Dietrich was more practical, in her way, less concerned about "art." Riefenstahl said she was all about her art, but just like Dietri
| Title | : | Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871403366 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 624 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
Elmer J. Hoeffer said this was a wonderful review of the era leading up to mine and. At 91 years old, this was a wonderful review of the era leading up to mine and through it. Well written, informative details, and objective.. Just an excellent book ! Riefenstahl and Dietrich were both totally self-absorbed, maybe even narcissists. They were focused and ambitious. Dietrich was more practical, in her way, less concerned about "art." Riefenstahl said she was all about her art, but just like Dietrich, she was all about herself.I think they both invented themselves as they went. Neither seemed to have deep relationships and neither was very self-reflective. The book shows them in all their long-lived glory, self-absorption and all. Each did something right to live as long. "Must read for classic film buffs and historians" according to Skip Brushaber. A terrific read. From the historical standpoint it was hard not to compare with what's unfolding politically right now in the USA. These were two very complex and egocentric woman who coexisted in the changing and tumultuous twentieth century. The book is very well written and obviously thoroughly researched. Although they were about the same age and started their careers in the Berlin of the 1920's, their paths took them in very different directions. Dietrich became a vehement anti-Nazi and American movie icon. Riefenst
She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. . 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
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALISTBoston Globe Best Book of 2015Washington Post Best Book of 2015Magisterial in scope, this dual biography examines two complex lives that began alike but ended on opposite sides of the century's greatest conflict.Born at the dawn of the twentieth century, Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Dietrich vehemently condemned Hitler during World War II and found a renewed sense of purpose touring with the USO, but as a result she could never comfortably return to her native Germany.Both women were "prodigies of will, discipline, endurance, self-reinvention, and exaltation of the body in all its muscular, androgynous, pose-striking pagan glory" (James Wolcott), and both had their grand passions, but neither abandoned ambition for the sake of love. Glamour and decadence thrived beside abject poverty, and the German capital's outpouring of literature, fashion, and film marked it as the most vital European metropolis. Only a few years later she became the official filmmaker of the Third Reich. With her work on two
She brings a lively style, a wealth of detail, and a perfect balance between skeptical objectivity and measured sympathy to her account of the parallel and then diverging lives of these two ambitious women.” (Celia Applegate, Vanderbilt University) . Lord - Los Angeles Times)“In this lively, deliciously gossipy dual biography, Karin Wieland treats both with great sympathy but also clear-eyed assessment.” (Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe)“With hypnotic power…. “Wieland is shrewd…about her subjects and has done serious work…that give her book credibility, texture, and unending interest. Moreover, by tracking their divergent careers together, she is able subtly to suggest some answers to a question that hangs over every mid-century German artist: wh
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