East German Poster Database

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• Tragische Dichtung von Federico Garcia Lorca/Yerma/DDR-Erstaufführung Regie: Winkelgrund Bühne: Heidenreich/Mit Paetzold, Albrecht, Leipert, Kreißig, Weißenborn, Becker, Hürrig, Puls u.a./Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
  Poster is white with black texdt and title spray-painted in black in center. Border in red. Advertises for the tragedy "Yerma" from Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Winkelgrund.
• Der Wett-Lauf zwischen Hase + Igel/Theater Senftenberg/von P. Ensikat
  Poster is a depiction of a rabbit in a red suit and red top hat, holding what appears to be an egg in his right hand. One either side sit two hedgehogs, one at left with an apple stuck on his quills. Advertises for "The Race Between Hare and Hedgehog", from P. Ensikat.
• Weiße Rose/Udo Zimmerman/Szenen für zwei Sänger und fünfzehn Instrumentalisten/DDR-Ring-Erstaufführung Premiere am 28.2.86/Inszenierung: Detlef Rogge/Musikalische Leitung: Manfred Hänsel
  Poster is a grayscale portrait of a woman with left half of her face shadowed. Text at bottom in black. Advertises for "White Rose", from Udo Zimmerman, "scenes for two singers and fifteen instrumentalists". Premiere in DDR.
• Tadeusz Róžewicz/Wejsse Ehe
  Poster is a black and white photograph of a man in a tiled room spattered with what could be blood and a second man behind him in a mask. Title in red on white tiop and bottom. Advertises for "Wejesse Marriage" from Tadeusz Róžewicz.
• Nina Sadur/Schauspiel Halle Neues Theater Landes Theater Halle/Das Wunder-Weib/DDR-Erstaufführung/Regie: Wladimir Tarasjanz
  Poster background is blue with white dots. Large globe at top left with continents in blue and ocenas in blue and white stripes. Text in black on white and blue on white at left. Bottom is bordered in red and black terrain with woman in blue dress and black boots standing at bottom right. Advertises for "The Wonder Woman" from Nina Sadur, directed by Vladimir Tarasjanz. Play's premiere in the DDR
• Nikolai Haitow/Wege/Kammerspiele/Darsteller: Bärbel Bolle Kurt Böwe Horst Lebinsky Martin Trettau/Inszenierung: Uwe-Detlev Jessen Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Hans-Helmut Müller Musik: Andreas Altenfelder
  Poster is white with pink-scale photograph in center of a snail shell on sand on pebbles. Title in pink superimposed with remaining text above and below. Advertises for "Paths" from Nikolai Haitow.
• Wir, die Endesunterzeichnenden/von A. Gelman
  Poster is mostly black, with depiction in center of a train window featuring two men sitting across from each other with hands raised while a third man looks on and behind a fourth speaks with the conductor. Tet in white below. Advertises for "We, the Undersigned" from Alexander Gelman.
• Maxim Gorki Theater/Urauffuhrung Rainer Kerndl/Wann kommt Erlicher?
  Poster is olive green with the title repeated in white forming a pyramid. Remaining text in red at top and left. Advertises for "When is the Honesty Coming?" from Rainer Kerndl. Play's premiere.
• Friedrich Schiller/Wallenstein
  Poster is white with black and red depiction of a monster with a horse's body, apelike head, and forked tongue. Appears to have had a crown knocked off his head. Similar to those found on crests. Advertises for "Wallenstein" from Friedrich Schiller.
• Der Wildschütz/Text und Musik von Albert Lortzing/Dirigat: Knauff Regie: Schüler Bühne: Bartsch Kostüme: Änn/Landes Theater Halle
  Poster is green, red and white. Depicts a man and woman with backs to viewer beneath a tree, siting against a hill or other formation, with a deer looking at them from other side. Title in red at top, with remaining text in black on white at bottom. Advertises for "The Game Reserve", directed by Schüler.
• Johannes R. Becher/Winterschlacht/Eine deutsche Tragödie/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
  Poster is white with partial black border. Depicts black and white portrait of a helmeted soldier, with line reaching from portrait to border. A rainbow is at right and an eye drawin in black. Text in black top and bottom at right. Advertises for "Winter Battle: A German Tragedy" from Johannes R. Becher.
• Landestheater Desdau/Szenen in drei Aufzügen von Maxim Gorki/Wassa Shelesnowa/von Erste Fassung 1910
  Poster is a depiction of a brick surface that acts as a liquid, with various individuals supbmerged up to chest-height. Individuals appear to be in period dres. Other objects seen floating are clock and kettle. Title at bottom in green, with remaining text in black-handwritten graphite. Advertises for "Wassa Shelesnowa" from Maxim Gorki.
• Heinz Drewnick/Wenn Georgie kommt/Uraufführung Staatschauspiel Dresden/Ein komisches Stück
  Poster is white with text in black at top and bottom. In center is a depiction of a grassy area with what appears to be a couch covered in grass, with white package tied with black string sitting in center. Package is printed with repeated performance title. Performance title is randomly repeated throughout depiction. Advertises for the comedy "When Georgie Comes", from Heinz Drewniok.
• Das Berliner Ensemble präsentiert im Foyer des Theaters jeweils 22.00 Uhr ein/Nachtprogramm/Wußten Sie schon? Wissen Sie noch? Schlager Lieder Geschichten Anekdoten aus der DDR/mit Carmen M. Antoni Peter Bause Klaus Hecke Hans-Peter Reinecke Jaecki Schwar
  Poster is white with black text and silhouetted depictions at bottom left and fright of two individuals holding theater masks with inverse facial expressions. Poster advertises for a Night Program from the Berliner Ensemble titled "Do You Still Remember? Did You Know?", a compilation of hits, songs, stories, and anectdotes from the DDR.
• DDR-Erstaufführung/Maxim Gorki Theater/Gelman WIR, DIE ENDESUNTERZEICHNENDEN
  Poster is navy with chalk handwritten text around outside. Inside depicts what appears to be a bus window in blue, with reflections of two children at right causing mischief and an older man at left looking out. Paper balls appear to be flying out and a heart with "Alla" inscribed in center has been formed on window. Advertises for "We, the Undersigned" from Alexander Gelman. DDR premiere.
• Wir, die Endesunterzeichnenden/Alexander Gelman/Staatsschauspiel Dresden/Arbeitsgruppe Theaterplakat Dresden/Haufe
  Poster is white and depicts the sleeve of a pinstripe suit with cuff visibile underneath, and metal instrument protruding in place of an arm. Text in black serif typeface at top. Advertises for "We, the Undersigned" from Alexander Gelman.
• Staatschauspiel Dresden/Warten auf Godotr/von Samuel Beckett/DDR-Erstaufführung
  Poster is white with black handwritten text mostly top left corner. Depicts two individuals who resemble early ethnocentric depictions of Native Americans, especially in hair and decorative jewelry though they wear Western costume. Advertises for the DDR premiere of "Waiting for Godot".
• Welttheater Weltverständnis Weltfrieden XX. Kongreß des Internationalen Theaterinstituts 5.-12. Juni 1983 Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR/Zentrum DDR des ITI/5. Juni 1983 18 Uhr Eröffnung des Kongresses Schauspielers des Berliner Ensembles in Szenen, Liedem und
  Poster is white with frame at top outlined in orange with repeating orange, yellow, and blue dots. Inside frame are four faces in profile, each facing outward toward a side in varying colors, with a dover in center. Text below in black. Advertises for a "World Theater for the Understandiung of World Peace", the 20th Congress of International Theater Institutes, from June 5-12 1983. (Note: Poster is double-sided.)
• Karten an den Theaterkassen im Palasthotel Spandauer Strasse und an den Speilorten Erhältlich Informationen über 4 48 3939/Woche des Gestischen Theaters vom 3. - 11. Juli 1987/Auf Strassen Plätzen und in Theatern des Stadtbezirkes Prenzlauer Berg Künstler
  Poster is white with depiction of a bold black line looped at right end with eye in center. Shoe is attached at left and hand attached at right. Sign below loop in yellow with red text advertising a "Wee of Gestural Theater from July 3-11 1987".
• Wir Wohner/Eine Gruppe von Pantomimen spielt für sie jeden Donnerstag gegen 20 Uhr unter d
  Poster is white with pink border. Depicts abstract bird with bold black outlines and what appears to be snail shell on top. Text below in black. Advertises for "We Residents", performed by a pantomime group every Thursday at 8pm.
• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin/Wozzeck/Oper von Alban Berg
  Poster depicts a two men in green at bottom, one at right appearing to pull something out of the eys of one at left. Men are identically dressed. Background in black and white, depicting city. Text at top in black. Advertises for the opera "Wozzeck" from Alban Berg.
• Maxim Gorki Theater/Studiobühne/Athol Fugard/Der Weg nach Mekka/DDR-Erstaufführung/Regie: Rolf Winkelgrund
  Poster depicts a room with a window in center looking out on sky. Room is in yellow-orange gradient, with white figures on the floor of Orient theme (i.e., camel, owl, pyramid, etc.) Text in black at top and bottom. Advertises for the DDR Premiere of "The Way to Mecca" from Athol Fugard, directed by Rold Winkelgrund.
• Uraufführung/Weitere Aussichten/Franz Xaver Kroetz Lena Foelbach/Jahresringe/Städtische Theater Karl Marx Stadt
  Poster is blue-scale photograph of two hands clasped together, with text in white above and below. Advertises for the premiere of "Other Views" from Franz Xaver Kroetz and "Growth Ring" from Lena Foelbach.
• Kurt Hoffman's Musikalische Räuberpistole: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
  This poster is a watercolor in green and pink, with line drawings in black of presumably characters from the performance, including a man resembling Benjamin Franklin a woman with exaggerated lips, a man with horizontal mustache and hair, and a juvenile or short man holding a knife with exaggerated teeth. Two creepy eyes are visible at the bottom. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for a "musical cock-and-bull story" from Kurt Hoffmann titled "The Inn at Spessart", based on the book by Curt Hanno Gutbrod with text by Günther Schwenn and Willy Denmel with music by Franz Grothe.
• Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater Bautzen- Němsko-Serbske Ludowe Dźiwadło Budyšin- Wassa Schelesnowa: Drama von Maxim Gorki
  This poster is white with a black inset depicting a woman viewing her reflection in a silver canister. The text is in white vertically on the left, right, and at the bottom. This poster advertises for the drama "Vassa Zheleznova" from Maxim Gorki.