D 2026 | 93 min | Documentary | R: Sandra Prechtel
Einar Schleef was a theatre maker, stage designer, writer, photographer, painter and filmmaker. A total artist from the middle of Germany who found no home in any Germany – and therefore became its most precise chronicler. Einar Schleef dug himself into German reality with all artistic means, into the abysses of German history, which he brought into the present. Schleef felt, suffered, breathed and tasted this reality. And he wrote it down, staged it, photographed it, painted it. From Schleef one can learn who we are, where we come from, and what is happening in this country today. Born in the East German provinces, grew up in the post-war GDR, first theatre successes in East Berlin, which were also immediately scandals. Survival in the dictatorship, flight. The inability to arrive in the West, depression, and after a long break back at the Westdeutsches Theater, where Schleef struck like lightning.