East German Poster Database

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• Michail Schatrow: Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam, Regie: W. Mattukat, Bühne: B. Neumann
  This poster's background is pale blue, with an image of a man in red leaping into the air with planes that appear meant as wings on his arms. A town is visible silhouetted in white in the bottom right corner. The text is in navy on white at the right. This poster advertises for Michail Schatrow's "Blue Horse on Red Grass", directed by W. Mattukat.
• Buero Berliner Festtage und Kuenstler-Agentur der DDR- No Kyogen Theater Japan: Leitung Hideo Kanze- Deutsches Theater - 17./18./19. Juni 1989 - 19.00 Uhr- Karten an der Kasse des Deutschen Theaters und dem Theaterkassen im Palasthotel
  This poster is black with a white circular geometric line pattern in center, with rays emanating from central white point, a circumference outline in red, and border of hatched lines outside, resembling an open hand fan. The text is in gray at the top and bottom with the title in yellow at the top center. This poster advertises for "No" from the Kyogen Theater in Japan. Conducted by Hideo Kanze.
• Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Die Nase- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  This poster is a painting of a Napoleonic Era soldier heavily decorated with multiple medals, but faceless. The uniform in entirely green. The title is above in white, with the remaining text at the top and bottom in black. This poster advertises for the opera "The Nose" from Dmitri Shostakovich.
• Wyspianski: Novembernacht- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
  This poster is white with a watercolor Weimar solider holding a sword horizontally above his head, surrounded by line drawings of what appear to be angels and demons, each trying to posture him. The text is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for "November Night" from Wyspianski.
• Der Nackte Wahnsinn: Komödie von M. Frayn, Regie: P. Sodann- Landestheater Halle
  This poster is white with a black border. The lower portion of this poster is a blind on a curtain rod in grayscale, with a depiction of an empty room with open door and door open in the floor. Above this depiction is the title in red and outlined in black. The remaining text is in black handwriting. This poster advertises for comedy "The Naked Madness" from M. Frayn, directed by Peter Sodann.
• Staatsschauspiel Dresden- Hebbel: Die Nibelungen- Ein deutsches Trauerspiel
  This poster's background is a sepia cloudscape, with a darker WWII German helmet floating in center. Red wings have been painted on either side of the helmet. The text is in black at the top and bottom left. This poster advertises for Hebbel's "The Nibelungen [a mythical race of dwarves]: A German Tragedy".
• Ernst Barlach: Der blaue Boll- Regie: Winkelgrund, Musik: Hilprecht, Bühne: Keienburg
  This poster depicts a large man in ghostly white color with red lips, wearing a black bowl hat and black suit, with a blue pig emerging from his collar. The background is red. The title is in white at the top with the remaining text in white chalk writing at the bottom. This poster advertises for "The Blue Boll", from Ernst Barlach, directed by Winkelgrund.
• Berliner Ensemble
  This poster is green with a negative image of a bird in profile depicted in white in the center. "Berliner Ensemble" is in white on red, located at the top right corner.
• Kammerspiele- Christoph Hein: Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q nach Lu Xun, Regie: Alexander Lange, Bühnenbild - Gero Troil
  This poster is white with a corkboard in center, painted over in black with an abstract circle showing a horizon with repeating loops as the landscape. This poster advertises for "The True History of Ah Q according to Lu Xun" from Christoph Hein, directed by Alexander Lang.
• Candide: Musik: Leonard Berstein, nach dem Roman von Voltaire- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, DDR Erstaufführung
  This poster is an abstract work in pastels featuring several exaggerated portraits, one crying blood with its head detached from its neck, one a witch, one appears to be a gargoyle, and a nude woman lying at the bottom. The title is at top in white, with the remaining text at the bottom in gold and white. This poster advertises for "Candide" with music by Leonard Bernstein, based on the book by Voltaire.
• Siegfried: Richard Wagner- Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki
  This poster is black with a collage of images in upper left corner, including a dragon, a man wearing a leopard skin and carrying a club, and an old woman in red with exaggerated reptilian eye superimposed. The word "Siegfried" is superimposed in yellow, with "ngen" letters in gray caps at the bottom. The poster is possibly only half or quarter of the original. The remaining text is in white at the bottom right. This poster advertises for one of Wagner's operas involving Siegfried... possibly the Death of Siegfried or Siegfried's Idyll.
• Cabaret: Musical nach John van Druten und Christopher Isherwood Buch, von Joe Masteroff Musik von John Kander, Gesangstexte von Fred Ebb- Volkstheater Rostock
  This poster is a collage of black and white images of theater and city life, including costumed individuals, architecture, soldiers, performers, city workers, and newspapers. The background is red and black, with a black border with alternating red and white dots and a red inner border. The title at top is in red and white with the remaining text underneath in black and at the bottom in white. This poster advertises for the musical "Cabaret" from John van Druten and Christopher Isherwood, based on the book by Joe Masteroff.
• Landestheater Halle- Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt- Der Urfaust: Goethes Faust in ursprünglicher Gestalt- Schauspiel Halle, Regie: Erhard Preuk
  This poster is a black and white photograph of a river in a misty forest. The text at the left and center is in white and white gothic script outline in red. This poster advertises for "The Urfaust", or Goethe's Faust in its original form. Directed by Erhard Preuk.
• Bilder der Liebe: Rainer Kunad- Ballettabend- Le Sacre du Printemps- Igor Strawinsky- Operhaus Leipzig
  This poster is red with a white border, dominated by a purple anthropomorphic figure in a dancing position. The text is in white and purple at the top right and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the ballet "The Rite of Spring" from Igor Stravinsky.
• Faust in Unsprünglicher Gestalt- Goethe Urfaust- Theater der Bergarbeiter Senftenberg
  This poster is a depiction of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in black and white on a grayish brown. Indecipherable text that is Da Vinci's own backwards writing in black forms a background above and below, with the title at bottom in white on black. This poster advertises for "Faust in Original Form", presumably based on Goethe's work.
• Die Steinerne Blume: Ballett von Sergej Prokofjew- Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt
  This poster is a painted depiction of what appears to be a cave, with an opening showing a starburst in center in yellow and green. The cave's colored in reds and browns. The text at the bottom is in white. This poster advertises for "The Star Flower", a ballet from Sergey Prokofiev.
• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Christopr Marlowe: Die tragische Geschichte vom Leben und Tod des Doctor Faustus
  This poster's background is gray with a graphite drawing of presumably Faust, who appears to be being attacked by something with a severed head. Other visible objects are a mouth with forked tongue, bishop's hat, crown, and alchemist's circle. It is partially colored in purple, red, yellow, blue and white. This poster advertises for "The Tragic Tale of Life and Death of Doctor Faustus", from Christopher Marlowe.
• 17. Tanzfest der DDR- Rudolstadt 30. Juni-1. Juli 1989
  This poster is blue with a large depiction of a white, red, green and gray top decorated with red ribbon. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for the 17th Dance Fest of the DDR in Rudolstdat from June 30th through July 2nd 1989.
• Trilogie des Absurden- Schauspiel Halle, Neues Theater, Landestheater Halle- Müller Herzstück, Foissy der Tropfen, Beckett kommen und gehen, Ionesco das Heiratsfähige Mädchen
  This poster's background is grayscale gradient from white at top to black at bottom, with a grayscale cube in center. The title is in red at the top with remaining text at the bottom in white. This poster advertises for "The Trilogy of the Absurd", including "Foissy the Drip", "Beckett Comes and Goes", and "Ionesco the Nubile Girl".
• Tamerlan: Oper von G. F. Haendel- Landestheater Halle
  This poster is white with a black and white abstract depiction of a man smiling in a suit, reflected as a skeleton. The title is at the top in black with text at the left and right. This poster advertises for Handel's opera "Tamerlan", with musical direction by Christian Kluttig and starring Axel Köhler as Tamerlan.
• Hans Werner Henze: Undine Ballett- Inszenierung und Choreographie György Vámos
  This poster is mostly in shades of brown. It depicts a sunrise/set over a water with hills on the horizon. The sunlight reflects down onto a drawn hand, burning the palm. The text is in white at top and bottom. This poster advertises for the ballet "Undine", staged and choreographed by György Vámos.
• Werner Buhss: Nina; Nina Tam Kartina- Schauspeil Unter Verwendung eines Motivs bei Deniil Granin- Landestheater Altenburg
  This poster is a colored photograph of a house standing alone with a black dashed triangle superimposed and inverted toward house. A large tear or black blotch is in the top right, while the poster has a black border around it. The text is superimposed in black on white. This poster advertises for "Nina Nina Tam Kartina" from Werner Buhss.
• Sommergäste: Gorki- Staatschauspiel Dresden
  This poster's background is tan recycled paper, with a black border and holes at the top, with three large red "x"s below. The title is in black at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of Maxim Gorki's play "Summer Guests".
• Franz Schreker: Der Schmied von Gent- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Grose Zauber Oper nach Charles de Coster
  This poster's background is brown. It depicts a faceless monster whose body shows a landscape of a small town, with the title inscribed over his face. The left half is dark with a horn, right side is light with a wing. This poster advertises for "The Blacksmith from Gent", a "large magic opera" from Charles de Coster.
• Der Soldat und das Feuerzeug- Pop-Musical für Kinder ab 5 und Leute mit Herz bis 85 nach einem Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen, Text: Heinz-Martin Bendecke, Musik: Thomas Bürkholz, Regie: Radestock- Volkstheater Rostock
  This poster is white with a yellow border. It depicts a soldier in a red and blue uniform marching with a guitar over his shoulder instead of a weapon. The text is in black script at the top. This poster advertises for "The Soldier and the Lighter", a "pop musical for children and people with heart to 85 years old, based on a fairytale from Hans Christian Andersen". The text is by Heinz-Martin Bendecke and music by Thomas Bürkholz, while directed by Radestock.