Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin and a Century in Two Lives, Karin Wieland, translated by Shelley Frisch, c. 2011

Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin and a Century in Two Lives, Karin Wieland, translated by Shelley Frisch, c. 2011. 791.43 WIE, Grapevine Public Library, Grapevine, TX. 

Notes, if not otherwise, not annotated have to do with Dietrich, not Riefenstahl.

Part I: Youth, 1901 - 1923
born December 27, 1901, Berlin
mother forced her to take violin lessons;
resulted in tendonitis;
end of dreams of being a professional violinist
Weimar, WWI
plan B

Part II: Carving Out A Career, 1923 - 1932
returns to Berlin;
finds work in theater;
does quite well;
1923: marries; her only marriage; Rudolf Emilian Sieber, quickly a daughter, her only child
Sieber and Dietrich sleep in different rooms; Dietrich has many lovers;
paths cross; Dietrich, described as whorish
1932: Riefenstahl back in Berlin, and becomes infatuated with Hitler, from the ubiquitous posters
writes Hitler a letter and Hitler invites her to his home; an affair commences
page 147: the film M, was showing, 1930 / 1931
Dietrich becomes huge successful in the Berlin theater; director wants her in Hollywood
husband / Dietrich would go to America without their daughter, who would join them later

Part III: Success, 1932 - 1939

To be completed later.

Stephen Spender, p. 191

Rumpelmayer's mentioned: somewhere in the book; I'll have to locate it later.