Villa Riefenstahl, Protected architectural villa in Schmargendorf, Germany

Villa Riefenstahl is a two-storey house with a saddle roof and a hook-shaped plan at Heydenstraße 30. Its low roof pitch, wide eaves, segmental-arch ground-floor windows and shutters evoke Alpine houses, while the garden side has large glazing and a continuous horizontal window band. Inside, a hall runs through to the garden, and the living room could serve as a private cinema.

The Wertheim department store family was forced to sell its land at Messel- and Max-Eyth-Straße in the mid-1930s; the plot was divided, Max Landsberg's 1910 Villa Wertheim demolished, and the villa built in 1935/36 for Leni Riefenstahl. Architects Ernst Petersen and Hans Ostler designed it with her. She sold it shortly after World War II; Joerg and Maria Koch bought it in 2019.

The house appeared in Das schöne Heim and in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, which printed an exterior view plus photographs of the living room and terrace with guests, among them Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels. Inside, a small room next to the living room held the film projector, so the living room could serve as a private cinema.

The villa is located in Berlin-Schmargendorf and can be viewed from the street, though it remains in private hands. Visitors can observe the house and its garden layout from the public areas surrounding the property.

The interior was completely renovated in 2019 by new owners and deliberately departs from the original design principles of the house. This transformation marks a departure from its past and demonstrates a contemporary approach to the space.