Einar Schleef – No Germany Did I Find

Sandra Prechtel

GER 2026, 92 min

Portrait of theater director and total artist Einar Schleef. He shook theater in both West and East Germany out of its coma. He worked himself to the point of self-destruction on the reality of German-German life and died far too young.

Synopsis

World premiere at the Berlinale - Forum
Sat Feb 14 / 11:00 / Delphi Filmpalast
Thu Feb 19 / 21:00 / Cinema Paris
Sun Feb 22 / 10:00 / Colosseum 1

»With his monumental productions, Einar Schleef pushed theatre to the outer reaches, confounded expectations in East and West alike, grappled with GDR origins and the BRD present. A universal artist emerges from the archive: “I’m not human, I’m dynamite”.« (Berlinale - Forum)

Awards and Festivals

- Berlinale - Forum 2026

Credits

Director and Screenplay
Sandra Prechtel
With
Einar Schleef
Editor
Olaf Voigtländer, Katja Dringenberg
Produced by
Filmgalerie 451
In Coproduction with
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb)
Founded by
Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), FFA Filmförderungsanstalt - Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB)

Further Films

of this Director

Roland Klick – The Heart is a Hungry Hunter