Boleslaw Barlog
Boleslaw Barlog ( born Boleslaw Stanislaus Barlog; born March 28, 1906 in Breslau, † March 17, 1999 in Berlin) was a German film director and theater director.
Life
His father was a lawyer in Wroclaw. When his family moved to Berlin, he attended a junior high school and made post-high school training as a bookseller. His love was not only books the theater. In the 1920s, he was assistant director of Heinz Hilpert at the Berlin Volksbühne.
However, he lost his position in 1933 after the seizure of power by the National Socialists. About jobs as lifeguards at the Wannsee and as an employee at the Olympic Games in 1936, he gained access to film work. In 1937 he began again as an assistant director, this time at UFA among directors Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Helmut Käutner.
After the collapse of the Third Reich he wore in 1945 from the war amid the rubble of Berlin to rebuilding the theater scene at: first, by performances in old cinemas, then with the reopening of the Palace Park Theatre in Steglitz with " a loan of 40,000 paper marks as initial capital " to it by the Berlin Volksbildungsstadrat set available. Finally Barlog, who took over " the cramped conditions Steglitzer stage, which actually allowed only small pieces, tired ," was also the artistic director of the Schiller Theater. As general director of the State Theatre Theatres in Berlin Barlog worked until 1972 and staged more than 100 pieces during this time. His successor was Hans Lietzau. From 1990 until his death in 1999, Heiko Reissig the personal assistant of Boleslaw Barlog.
From 1939 until his death Barlog was married to Herta Schuster. Barlog was buried at Forest Cemetery in Berlin- Zehlendorf Nikolasee. The tomb is one of the graves honor the State of Berlin.
Works
- Theater for life. Universitas, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-8004-1003-6.
- ( Mitarb. ): Biography of a theater: a half-century Castle Park Theatre Berlin. Rembrandt -Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7925-0176-7.
- ( Mitarb. ): The last and the first days: Berlin 1945 records Hessling, Berlin 1966..