Ernst Jaeger papers, 1950-1970

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Ernst Jaeger papers, 1950-1970

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715391297

The collection comprises correspondence between Ernst Jaeger and Leni Riefenstahl, as well as photographs, screenplays, manuscripts and other correspondence from Jaeger, 1950s to 1970s. While the first part of the collection focuses on the relationship between Riefenstahl and her former collaborator and mentor, Jaeger, the second part mainly focuses on Jaeger's work in the US. The Reifenstahl materials provide insight into Riefenstahl's personal and financial worries, detail her tumultuous relationship with Jaeger, and reveal how Riefenstahl coped emotionally and financially with her unenvious status as a social pariah following Germany's World War II defeat. The Jaeger materials consist of several manuscripts for screenplays as well as Jaeger's personal and business correspondence; the latter highlight Jaeger's efforts in finding work and recognition in the film business.

2 linear ft. (2 boxes)

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8084710

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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Riefenstahl, Leni

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German film director Leni Riefenstahl was born in 1902 in Berlin. She achieved fame and notoriety for her propaganda film TRIUMPH OF THE WILL and her two part rendition of the 1936 Olympic Games, OLYMPIA, both made for Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. One of the most controversial figures in the world of film, she had already made a name for herself in her native Germany and abroad when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. With his friendship and support she became the "movie-queen" of Nazi Germany," ...

Jaeger, Ernst, 1869-1944

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Born Berta Helene Amalie Riefenstahl in 1902, Leni grew up in Berlin. She studied dance and was soon performing in Munich, Berlin and Prague until a knee injury ended her stage career but did not stop her from a transition to film. Within months of viewing Arnold Fanck's "Berg des Schicksals" (Mountain of Destiny) the film she credits with piquing her curiosity in cinema, Riefenstahl starred in another of Fanck's mountain films, "Der heilige Berg" (The Sacred Mountain, aka Peaks of Destiny), aft...