Barlog, Boleslaw

(1906-1999)

   Director, intendant. Best known as intendant of the Berlin city theaters in the 1950s and 1960s, Barlog established his directing career with several films in the Nazi era. He began directing in Berlin immediately after the war at the Schlosspark Theater and in 1951 assumed managership of the Schiller. There he assembled a group of outstanding actors who had made names for themselves in the Nazi era but who in the Cold War era became closely identified, as did Barlog, with attempts to revive West Berlin's theater culture.