Einar Schleef
Einar Schleef (17 January 1944 – 21 July 2001) was a German dramatist, director, set designer, writer, painter, photographer, and actor.
Life
Schleef was born and raised in Sangerhausen, a small town in the South East of Germany. An industrial landscape shaped by mining and surrounded by the mythical landscapes of Harz and Kyffhäuser. His father Wilhelm Schleef was an architect, his mother Gertrud Schleef worked as a seamstress. He had one sibling, Hans Schleef.
Career
Einar Schleef started to train as a painter while he was still in school. He attended a socialist painting circle led by Wilhelm Schmied from 1958 onwards. In 1964 he started a degree in fine arts at the arts academy in Berlin Weißensee. After being expelled in 1965 Schleef switched to set design two years later and finished with a bachelor's degree in 1973.
From 1972–1975 he worked mainly for the
Schleef returned to theatre in 1985 when he became a steady director at
Through the 1990s he continued to produce a number of successful and influential productions such as "Wessis in Weimar" by
The last phase of his theatre work was accompanied by the work on his epic theatre essay "Droge, Faust, Parsifal" published in 1997.[2]
Schleef died in Berlin on 21 July 2001 due to a heart disease. He is buried in Sangerhausen.
Publications
- Harald Müller, Wolfgang Behrens: Kontaktbögen. Fotografie 1965–2001, Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2001 ISBN 3-934344-58-5
- Gabriele Gerecke, Harald Müller, Hans Ulrich Müller-Schwefe: Einar Schleef Arbeitsbuch, Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-934344-12-7
- Alexander Kluge: Einar Schleef – der Feuerkopf spricht. (Hg. Christian Schulte & Reinald Gußmann). Facts & Fakes, Band 5. Vorwerk 8, Berlin, 2003. ISBN 3-930916-59-2
- Michael Freitag, Katja Schneider: Einar Schleef. Der Maler, Köln, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-9089-7
Awards and honors
References
External links
- Einar Schleef
- ub.fu-berlin.de list of links edited by Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin
- Einar-Schleef-Arbeitskreis Sangerhausen
- Stiftung Moritzburg Schleef's paintings
- Schleef Vita written by Alexander Kluge, profile ITI Germany