Riefenstahl film

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The Riefenstahl Film GmbH was one of Leni Riefenstahl founded in 1940 company based in Berlin, which initially as a production company for the film project lowland was intended. This company later cooperated with the Kulturfilm-Institut GmbH , headed by Hans Cürlis , to produce two documentary cultural short films for which Riefenstahl hired her former teacher Arnold Fanck , who was paid a fixed monthly salary. While Riefenstahl's film Tiefland was made for Tobis Filmkunst GmbH in Berlin from 1940 to 1944, the short documentary film about Josef Thorak - Werkstatt und Werk was shot in 1943. The short documentary film Arno Breker - Hard Times, Strong Art was made in 1944.

For the film Tiefland , Riefenstahl Film GmbH requested interned Sinti and Roma from the Nazi forced camp Maxglan near Salzburg and the Nazi forced camp Marzahn in order to mime actors who appeared to be Spanish. Leni Riefenstahl chose the extras himself on site in Marzahn. The Sinti and Roma were used as extras and extras in the film, but received no remuneration for this. However, Riefenstahl Film GmbH had to pay a contractually regulated special compensation charge to the SS for the use of the "Gypsies" . Most of these extras were later deported to the Nazi gypsy camp Auschwitz and murdered there. Leni Riefenstahl denied having known about it and therefore led several lawsuits. It was only after the first trial in 1954 that Riefenstahl cut the version of the film Tiefland shown in the cinema , removing many scenes with Sinti and Roma in order to avoid further allegations. However, many of them were clearly visible on the still photos taken on the set . A small number of the extras had been deported to the Gypsy detention camp in Lackenbach in Burgenland after the shooting , few of whom had survived and were largely able to refute Riefenstahl's claims in the 1982 trial. The trial was based on a lawsuit by Riefenstahl against the documentary film Time of Silence and Darkness , made by Nina Gladitz and broadcast by WDR . After four years of proceedings, Riefenstahl's lawsuit in 1987 was dismissed except for one point. In 2002 there was an investigation into the matter against Riefenstahl.

Filmography

  • 1940–1944: lowlands
  • 1943: Josef Thorak - workshop and factory
  • 1944: Arno Breker - Hard times, strong art

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kulturfilm-Institut GmbH (Berlin) , on: filmportal.de
  2. ^ Riefenstahl-Film GmbH , on: filmportal.de
  3. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archives Freiburg, D 180/2 No. 182187
  4. ^ Joseph Thorak - Werkstatt und Werk , on: filmportal.de
  5. ^ Rainer Rother: Leni Riefenstahl - The seduction of talent . Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-8948-7360-8 , p. 130
  6. ↑ Arno Breker - Hard time, strong art , on: filmportal.de
  7. ^ Rainer Rother: Leni Riefenstahl - The seduction of talent . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-8948-7360-8 , pp. 298-299
  8. ↑ Lutz Kinkel: The headlight . Europa-Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-2038-4109-0 , p. 358
  9. ↑ Press release: discontinuation of the film series »In memoriam Leni Riefenstahl« (January 8, 2004) , on: foerdervereinroma.de
  10. ↑ Reimar Gilsenbach : Oh Django, sing your anger - Sinti and Roma among the Germans . Basis-Druck, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8616-3054-0 , p. 167.
  11. ↑ Grass grew over everything ... - Leni Riefenstahl and her film »Tiefland« , on: derfunke.at
  12. ↑ Investigation procedure instead of a congratulatory telegram . In: Manager Magazin , August 22, 2002
  13. ^ Riefenstahl: The public prosecutor is investigating . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 22, 2002, on: faz.net
  14. ^ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks - Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists 1933–1945 . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9386-9010-9 , pp. 17, 203