Leni Riefenstahl Bibliography

 Books by or about Leni Riefenstahl:

(in English)

(starting effort, not definitive)

Bach, Stephen. Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl. Knopf, 2007.

Berg-Pan, Renata. Leni Riefenstahl. Cengage, 1980.

De Lafayette, Maximillien. Leni Riefenstahl’s Last Words about Hitler, Goebbels, Nazis and the     Jews. Lulu, 2014.

Droznes, Lazaro. Denazifying Leni. Independent, 2018.

Graham, Cooper. Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia. Scarecrow Press, 1986.

Hinton, David B. Films of Leni Riefenstahl. Scarecrow Press, 1978, 2000.

Infield, Glenn. Leni Riefenstahl: The Fallen Film Goddess. Crowell, 1976.

Passfield, John. Leni Riefenstahl: The Valley of the Shadow. Createspace, 2015.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir. Picador, 1995.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Coral Gardens. Harper Collins, 1978.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Behind the Scenes of the National Party Convention Film. International Historic Film, 2015. Trans. of “Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitag Film)

Riefenstahl, Leni. The Last of the Nuba. Harper & Row, 1973.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Triumph of the Will, Original Screenplay. Celluloid Chronicles, 1990.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Five Lives. Taschen, 2001.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Olympia. St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Riefenstahl, Leni. People of Kau. Harper Collins, 1976.

Riefenstahl, Leni. Sieve of Time. Quartet Books, 1992.

Riefenstahl. Leni. Vanishing Africa. Harmony, 1982.

Rother, Rainer. Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius. Continuum, 2003.

Salkeld, Audrey. Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl. Random House, 2006.

Trimborn, Jurgen. Leni Riefenstahl: A Life. I. B. Tauris, 2007.

Wieland, Karin. Dietrich & Riefenstahl. Liveright, 2016.


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