Judith Jagger's Influence On Leni Riefenstahl

Amidst the turmoil of the first half of the twentieth century Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi sympathiser and one of Hitler’s inner circle, found herself using these contexts to further herself with opportunities never before presented to women before the war (Trimborn 74). Leni showcases the role of film makers during the second world war and displays the importance of the documentation of historical events through art regardless of which side of victory their work falls. Throughout her life and beyond this woman was an important figure inside and outside of the cinema and was vital in the documentation of historic events such as that of the tribes in the Sudan.
Leni Riefenstahl was an important figure who helped shape the cinegraphic arts as we know them today and was shaped into the circumstances of her fame as well as through the conditions of her life. Well know individuals such as the prominent photographer Helmut Newton and Mick Jagger have been known to be influenced from her work (Trimborn 275). Leni was even honoured by Time magazine as the only women artist to make in onto their list of 100 most important artists of the 20th century (Trimborn 274). Although these honours were not always the case. Much controversy about her work arose when she was features at the MoMA in 1966 as certain individuals didn’t view it as …show more content…
This is relevant as Leni herself led a very controversial life before her death in 2003 at 101(Bach 297). Starting off her love of the arts to get away from her repressive father Leni