Art stele Boleslaw Barlog

The son of a lawyer, Boleslaw Stanislaus Barlog initially completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Berlin. He discovered his love of theater early on and worked as an assistant director at the Berlin Volksbühne until 1933. In 1936, Barlog also gained access to film work. After the war, amidst the ruins of Berlin, he contributed to the laborious reconstruction of the theater scene: initially through performances in old cinemas, later with the reopening of the Schlosspark Theater.
Eventually, Barlog also took over the artistic direction of the Schiller Theater and served as General Director of the State Theater until 1972 – during this time he directed over a hundred performances. He was particularly successful with contemporary plays; Barlog was also one of the first artistic directors to stage works by Samuel Beckett ("Waiting for Godot") in Germany, who is now considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. In addition to theater, Barlog also devoted himself to other artistic activities, for example, he directed
of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Boleslaw Barlog has received various awards, including the Art Prize of the City of Berlin and the Federal Cross of Merit. From 1963, he was a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. The closure of the State Theaters of West Berlin in 1993 hit Boleslaw Barlog hard; unsuccessfully, he wrote a pleading letter to the Berlin parliament. Barlog traveled to Sylt for the first time in 1947 and stayed with the publisher Peter Suhrkamp in Kampen. A year later, he acquired a vacation home in Keitum. Year after year, he continued to be seen on the Kampen beach in the summer, where he designed his next productions and
Modeled stage sets out of sand. "I enthusiastically frequented the nude beach,"
He summed it up at an advanced age and revealed: "Being artistic director in Berlin – I wouldn't have been able to get through it without the connection to the Akku Sylt."