Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
German Studies
Reader 1
Paul Buchholz
Reader 2
Marc Katz
Reader 3
Wendy Lower
Rights Information
© 2013 Sara Dunleavy Berge
Abstract
Moments before the Weimar Republic succumbed National Socialism, and their paths sharply diverged as a result, Leni Riefenstahl and Béla Balázs collaborated to make Das Blaue Licht. Within a year of their collaboration Riefenstahl was working closely with Hitler on plans for Triumph of the Will, and Balázs, a Hungarian Jew, had fled to Moscow without credit or payment for Das Blaue Licht, which he co-wrote and co-directed. This thesis explores multiple readings of Das Blaue Licht, as a modern text, a fascist text, and ultimately, one that exists in a complex gray zone.
Recommended Citation
Dunleavy Berge, Sara, "Grasping at Modernism in 1932: Alternative Readings of Das Blaue Licht, a Collaboration of Leni Riefenstahl and Béla Balázs" (2013). Scripps Senior Theses. 301.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/301
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
