The official AHF Third Reich culture quiz thread

[Reichssammler]

Ok, there was a special place in the new reichskanzlei in Berlin

Now it´s very easy...

[Robb]

Any ideas anyone??
regards Robb

[Myron]

Well, the first thing that came to mind when I saw it was the similarity to Arno Breker's "Die Partei" (1939) in Ehrenhof. So the only thing I would venture to guess it is Breker, but where in the Reichskanzlei I don't know...

[Reichssammler]

Ok, it´s a first version of Arno Breker´s "die Partei".
Your part myron

[Myron]

Thanks!

Which painter earned the titles "Reich Chastity Guardian" (Reichskeuschheitswart)
and "Reich Master of Pubic Hair" (Reichsschamhaarmeister)?

[Adam Carr]

Oh that's easy, Hitler's favourite German painter Adolf Ziegler. Although he later fell out of favour and finished up in Dachau.

OK my turn - who was called (behind her back), the Reichsgletscherspalte (Reich Glacier Crevasse), a nasty reference to her sexual reputation and her icy personality?

[Myron]

Leni Riefenstahl?

[Adam Carr]

Yes, poor Leni. So many lies to so little effect...

[Myron]

On 29 September 1934 the Reichsmusikkammer issued a prohibition for performing artists. What?

[Myron]

The Reichsmusikkammer issued a prohibition for performing artists to use foreign sounding names.

[Myron]

What year?

[Adam Carr]

The status is a copy of Myron's Discobolos (the Discus Thrower) (the original c 450BC), which featured prominently in Riefenstahl's Olympia film (she used her Russian boyfriend as the model). Hitler acquired this Roman copy in 1938 courtesy of Mussolini and installed it in the Glyptothek in Munich. It was returned to Italy after the war.

[Myron]

1938 is correct.

The status is a copy of Myron's Discobolos (the Discus Thrower) (the original c 450BC), which featured prominently in Riefenstahl's Olympia film (she used her Russian boyfriend as the model).

I didn't know that Anatol Dobriansky (seen as torch bearer in the film) was Riefenstahl's "boyfriend", or that he was used as the model for Discobolos. In Olympia: Fest der Völker it was Erwin Huber (German decathlon champion) who played the discus thrower.

Your turn.

[Adam Carr]

I read the Steven Bach Riefenstahl biography recently, but I don't have it with me at the moment. I'm sure he says that Dobriansky was (briefly) her lover, and I think he also says that he was the Discobolos in the film.

What became of Dobriansky, by the way?

[Myron]

What became of Dobriansky, by the way?

According to Riefenstahl, Dobriansky wound up in the Kriegsmarine and a dangerous service with one-man U-boats. Apparently he survived the war.

Source: Leni Riefenstahl, The Sieve of Time (1992), p. 189.