Reclaiming Nuba Images
In 2018, ownership of Leni Riefenstahl’s artistic estate was gifted to Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). This website documents the collaborative German–Sudanese research project which was initiated in 2021 to catalogue and critically assess the materials that belong to Leni Riefenstahl’s “Nuba work”. This involves cooperation between the Pan-Nuba Council, Sudan, and the German institutions Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum), Kunstbibliothek (Art Library) and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library), all of Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, along with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.
Community event organised by the Pan-Nuba Council in Kampala 2024 (photo: Ala Kheir)
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About the project
Collaborative indexing and critical research of Leni Riefenstahl’s Nuba work -
Collaborative research
Methods and activities of the collaborative processes used in the working relationship -
Working with the estate
Indexing, processing and contextualising the estate holdings in the museum collections -
Gazes and voices
Personal and artistic reflections on topics related to the archival material and beyond
