East German Poster Database

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• Leipziger Theater ž Neue Szene/Santerre/Uraufführung/Peter Brasch
  Poster is black with grayscale depiction of a ghostly, skeletal figure whose face has been obscured by stripes in manner of French flag. Text at top in gold and white. Advertises for the premiere of Peter Brasch's "Santerre".
• Carlo Goldoni/Die Sommerfrische/Deutsches Theaters/Regie: Wolfgang Heinz Karl von Appen Musik: Reiner Bredemeyer
  Poster is black with large white circle top center and orange "Deutshes Theaters" symbol inscribed within. A woman in a yellow dress and hat visible at right with a rope of flowers chained around her neck. A second invidual sits at bottom in a yellow shirt, looking up at her. Text in white and red script below. Advertises for "The Summer Dew".
• Berliner Ensemble/Stephan Hermlin Abend Die Ästhetik des Friedens/Prosa Lyrik Gespräche/Zum 70. Geburtstag des Dichters/Peter Weiss Abend/Die Ästhetik des Widerstands/Notizen Arbeitsprotokolle Gespräche/am Bertolt-Brecht-Platz
  Poster is beige with black text. Advertises for performances of Stephan Hermin's "The Aesthetic of Peace" and Peter Weiss' "The Aesthetic of Resistance", both from the Berliner Ensemble.
• Simplicius Simplicissimus/Oper von Karl Amadeus Hartmann/Bühnen der Stadt Gera/DDR-Erstaufführung/Regie: Lothar Arnold ž Muiskal. Leitung: Michael Stolle ž Ausstattung: Eva u. Wolfgang Bellach ž Dramaturgie: Dr. Eberhard Kneipel
  Poster depicts a woman bending backwards over a man who is in a pus-up position on the floor. Woman's arms morph into tree branches. Behind her is a second woman with back to her and similar arms. Depiction in black hatched line drawing. Border in purple with purple sun top right. Text in black at bottom. Advertises for "Simplicius Simplicissimus" from Karl Amadeus Hartmann, directed by Lothar Arnold.
• Oper von Udo Zimmerman/Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster is red with painting of two anthropomorphic suns in shades of blue, red and yellow. Text in white at top. Advertises for the opera "The Owl and the Flying Princess".
• Der Schauspieldirektor/Antonio Salieri/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Prima la Musica, Poi le Parole/Deutsche Staatsoper
  Poster is yellow with two portraits of women in 18th century costume; woman at left is depicted in blue with brown hair, woman at right in green with purple hair. Both have snakes coming out of their mouths. Text on all sides in black on yellow and green. Advertises for two performances: "The Play Director", from Mozart, and "First the Music, then the Words".
• Victor Carvajal/Theater der Freundschaft/Uraufführung/Der Streit um die Puppe/Deutsche Bearbeitung: Wera und Claus Küchenmeister.
  Poster is black with abstract depiction of a woman in a purple with arms outstretched and a blue circle behind her. On either side are images of people facing towards her, at left these appear hand-drawn, at right cut-out cartoons. Text at top and bottom in white. Advertises for "The Quarrel of the Puppets".
• Gozzi/Volksbühne/Das Schöne Grüne Vögelchen
  Poster background is blue, with cut-out gray-scale photograph of architectural ruins at bottom. Matching cut-outs of birds in "v" shape above, colored in different styles of black and white, with one red. A man a yellow shirt is visible within the ruins. Text in white at bottom. Advertises for "The Beautiful Little Green Bird", from Gozzi.
• Das trünken Schiff/Regie: Castorf/Bühne: [illegible]/Volksbühne/Paul Zech
  Poster is a grayscale photograph of a couple embracing in an enclosed space with arches visible behind. Superimposed is a hand-drawn pink vine with reaches down and outlines the couple, along with black splotches and black text which appears painted with a brush. Advertise for "The Drunken Ship", directed by Castorf.
• Landestheater Halle/Theater des Friedens/Der Talisman/Nestroy/Branstner/Regie: Harald Warmbrunn
  Poster features abstracted portrait of an individual wearing a powedered wig and architectural collar. Face is shown in black, yellow and red with everything else in gray and white. Text at bottom in black, theater information at top in red beneath reflected title in gray. Advertises for "The Talisman", directed by Harald Warmbrunn.
• Theater der Freundschaft/Der Tartüff/Moliére
  Poster depicts a faceless man in 18th century costume, arms crossed, with four drama masks in his left hand and one held up I his right. Text at top and bottom in red and blue. Advertises for Moliére's "The Imposter".
• La Traviata/Verdi/Hans Otto Theater Potsdam/In der Titelpartie Eva Maria Bundschuh
  Poster is a black and white portrait of a womans face, with edges blurred into black background. Title in white at top. Advertises for Verdis La Traviata, with Eva Maria Bundschu in the title role.
• Johannes R. Becher/Winterschlacht/Das Meininger Theater
  Poster is white with aquq textured background that appears to form a human figure lzing dead on concrete. A green army helmet is depicted in fore near the head and a grey boot near the bottom. Text in upper left corner and bottom right. Advertises for Winter Battle, from Johannes R. Becher.
• ...Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg/Richard Wagner/Die Walküre
  Poster background is collage of gradient color scale images, mostly statues and antique paintings. Superimposed in arc from center left to bottom right in yellow gothic script is title of performance, The Valkyrie from Wagner. Poster appears to be one half of two.
• Udo Zimmerman Weisse Rose Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster background is purple/blue gradient with black texturing on top. Ligths ppear to stream down from top. Text in white lower case at bottom. Advertises for `White Rose` by Udo Zimmerman.
• Karel Čapek Gabriele Bigott/Wie ein Theater Stück entsteht/Die Direktion beehrt sich, einem geneigten Publikum ein Stück yu präsentieren, das nach Prosatexten des Hrn. Čapek von Fr. Bigott für unsere Bühne verfertigt wurde. Dazu Lieder! Verwendung finden
  Poster is white with black text. Word `theater´ at top of poster is drawn in tree branches, and black line drawing illustrations at bottom of a man with a ladder, a man and a clown holding a drum between them, and a witch blowing a trumpet. Advertises for `How a Theater Pieces is Created´, from Karel Čapek and Gabriele Bigott.
• Wallenstein von Schiller/Regie: Peter Sodann/Landestheater Halle
  Poster is white with black line drawing of an evil-looking horeseman in armor and Elizabethan collar, sword drawn. Text in black at top. Advertises for "Wallenstein von Schiller" (name), directed by Peter Sodann.
• Wiener Blut/Operette von Johann Strauss
  Poster is pink with depiction of a woman in a Renaissance-era dress in white with gray decorations. She is holding a green military uniform decorated at edges in black damask pattern, with a sash across. Title in deocrative script at top in gold. Advertises for "Vienna Blood", an operette from Johann Strauss.
• Die Wildente/Volksbühne
  Poster background is grainy black and white photograph of indecipherable content. "Die Wilde" in black script on white in center, with letters appearing to have been cut out and pasted. Theater symbol bottom center. Advertises for "The Wild Duck".
• Heiner Müller/Wolokolamsker/Chaussee I-V/I Russiche Eröffnung II Wald bei Moskau III Das Duell IV Kentauren V Der Findling/"Das neue Leben muß anders werden" (FDJ-Lieder der 50er Jahre)/Musik Rainer Böhm/Regie Christoph Schroth Bühne Lothar Scharsich Kost
  Poster is gray with black text, except for red pointed segment at bottom. Advertises for a performance of Heiner Müller's "Wolokolamsker Chaussee" parts I - V, in celebration of the FDJ's 50th anniversary. Music by Rainer Böhm, directed by Christoph Schroth.
• Landesbühnen Sachsen/Johannes R. Becher/Winterschlacht/eine deutsche Tragödie
  Poster is white with pair of eyes depicted in black in white in center. Gray cross-shaped mark is centered where forehead would be and a large gray "O" where mouth would be. Text at top center in gray, red and black. Advertises for "Winter Battle", a "German Tragedy" from Johannes Becher.
• Alexander Gelman/Wir, die Endes-unterzeichnenden
  Poster is yellow with black text and black/yellow depiction of four hands emerging toward viewer from between what appear to be plywood boards. One is holding a folded ruler, one a beer bottole, one is writing with a pen on a sheet of paper, and one is holding up a board. Advertises for "We, the Undersigned" from Alexander Gelman.
• Landestheater Halle/15.2. Freitag/7 Uhr Bach-Händel-Schützehrung 34. Händelfestspiele/Wir spieln wieder/im Theater des Friedens/1930 Premiere/Partenope
  Poster is black with large weekly planner sheet in focus. Planner has been written on in black, with the date "15.2" underlined in red and title superimposed on writing in red. Advertises for "Wee Keep Playing".
• Wiederöffnung Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/5. Oktober 1975/Festkonzert der Weimarischen Staatskapelle Johann Wolfgang Goethe "Faust" I. Teil Johann Goethe "Faust" II. Teil Johannes R. Becher "Winterschlacht" Christoph Willibald Gluck "Iphigenie in Aul
  Poster is white with text repeated diagonally in black in each corner, clockwise: "Wiedereröffnung/Deutsches/Nationaltheater/Weimar". In top left center in small sepia print is description and date. Advertises for a "Fest Concert" of Weimar's City, featuring performances of "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, "Winter Battle" by Johannes R. Becher, "Iphigenie in Aulis", by Christoph WIllibald Gluck, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
• Die wundersame Schustersfrau/Oper von Udo Zimmerman/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/nach der Volkskomödie von Federico Garcia Loca
  Poster background is light brown with graphite/pastel depiction of four anthropomorphic figures in different colors (red, green, purple) crowding in front of a mannequin (?) whose breasts are falling out of her dress. Text at top at diagonal. Advertises for "The Wonderful Shoemaker's Wife", an opera from Udo Zimmerman based on the folk comedy by Federico Garcia Lorca.