East German Poster Database

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• Marie und ein Hans im Glück/Märchenmusical con Andreas Knaup und Thomas Bürkholz/Inszenierung: Peter Radestock Ausstattung: Wolfgang Flesch/Volkstheater Rostock Aufführung in der Sport-und Kongreßhalle
  Poster is a children's book-style depiction of a giant green bat with wings spread inside of a dome-shaped birdcage. A boy plaing a fiddle walks toward the right in front of it while a small girl looks toward him from the bottom right corner. Text in black and red top left and top right. Advertises for the fairytale musical "Marie and Hans in Luck", from Andreas Kanup and Thomas Bürkholz.
• Menschen und Meer/Internationales Liederfestival Rostock-DDR vom 13.-15. Jul 1978
  Poster is white. Depicts a turbulent ocean with profile of a woman's face rising out of the waves and hair made of water. Title in white at bottom with remaining text in red underneath. Advertises for "People and Sea", and international song festival in Rostock, from July 13th through July 15th, 1978.
• Der Mond Carmina Burana/Carl Orff/Deutsche Staaatsoper Berlin
  Poster background is rainbow gradient with a large yellow orb in center representing a moon and gradient text around circumference. White text bottom center. Advertises for two cantatas by Carl Orff: "The Moon" and "Carmina Burana".
• Joachim Werzlau/Meister Röckle/Oper für große und kleine Leute Text von Günter Deicke Ring - Uraufführung Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt
  Poster is blue with white text at top. Depicts at bottom painting of a beareded man standing to the left and slightly behind a robotic representation of himself in shades of blue and green. Advertises for the opera "Master Röckle", for large and small children, from Joachim Werzlau with text from Günter Deicke Ring.
• Der Mann von La Mancha/Musical von Leigh/Wasserman/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  Poster is black and depicts abstract portrait of an man with a long beard and mustache, possibly wide-brimmed hat, in black white, blue and orange. Text in white top and bottom right. Advertises for the musical "The Man from La Mancha" from Leigh and Wasserman.
• Match/Schauspiel von Jürgen Groß/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster is white with the word "Match" repeated seven times in repeating patterns across the width of the poster (black/white check, whit outlined in black, red, and black stripe). Toward bottom of poster is remaining text in aqua. Advertises for the play "Match" from Jürgen Groß.
• Medea/DDR-Erstaufführung Musik Rewas Gabitschwadse/Choreographie und Inszenierung Joachim Ahne Musikalische Leitung Gerd Puls Ausstattung Heinz Weimer
  Poster is white with red paint splotch dead center. Text in black top and bottom, and bottom left and top right. Advertises for the DDR premiere of "Medea", with music by Rewas Gabitschwadse.
• Städtische Theater Karl Marx Stadt/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg/Oper von Richard Wagner
  Poster is blue with orange rectangle in center. Inside border is decorated with sponge-print outlines of a medieval city, with yellow and black shiel in center. Text in black at top with title in white Advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Master Singer from Nürnberg".
• Musical von Alan Jay Lerner/My Fair Lady/Landestheater Dessau/Musik von Frederick Loewe
  Poster background is yellow with gradient black dots. Depicts a high-contrast black and white photograph comprised of said dots of a woman in a ruffled collar and antiquated hat, whose feathers and decorations have been painted on. Clearer photograph of a hand making a "V" sign in foreground with orange fingernails. Title of musical, "My Fair Lady", at top in red with remaining text in black. Music by Frederick Loewe, musical from ALana Jay Lerner.
• Männer Bekanntschaften/Tonbandprotokolle von Christine Lambrecht/Landestheater Halle Neues Theater/Regie: Peter Sodann
  Poster is red with white text at top and black text at bottom. Black and wite photograph of Landestheater Halle's Neues Theater in center with clothesline hanging across entrance and Trabi car parked at right. Advertises for "Manly Acquaintances" from Christine Lambrecht, directed by Peter Sodann.
• Molière/Landestheater Halle/Schauspiel Halle/Regie: Gotter Ausstattung: Koppe/Der Misanthrop
  Poster is white depicting a knight's arm holding a sword in blue, outlined and shaded in black, with five large flies in same coloring seemingly stamped all around. "Molière" in dark blue top left, with name of play, "The Misanthrop" at bottom in red. Directed by Gotter.
• Gerhart Hauptmann/Michael Kramer
  Poster depicts a shirt draped over a wooden painting easel. Background is dark brown with gold-beige border. Text in gold beige at top. Advertises for the play "Michael Kramer" from Gerhart Hauptmann.
• Manon: von Jules Massenet- Deutsches Staatsoper Berlin
  This poster is black with a depiction of a woman's face comprised entirely of intricate white and purple lace patterns. The face is bordered by depictions of thick flowing hair in the same lace patterns. The text is in white and purple italics at the bottom. This poster advertises for "Manon" from Jules Massenet.
• Augusto Boal, Mit der Faust ins offene Messer, Regie: Medina, Bühne: Neumann: Deutsches Theater Kammerspiele
  This poster is white with a black and white photograph of a chair sitting in an empty room with picture on the wall of what appears to be a boat. Parts of the photograph have been colored, such as a saw on the floor beside the chair and arbitrary red splotches in the air. This poster advertises for a performance of "Fist Right Into the Trap" from Augusto Boal, directed by Medina.
• bat, Institut für Schauspielregie Kunsthochschule Berlin, Studenten stellen vor J.W. von Goethe: Die Laune des Verliebten, Es spielen Gabriele Methner-Herz Johanna Schall Rudy Hassing Wilfried Loll, Die Mitschuldigen, Angelika Ritter Bruno Carstens Peter Hladik
  This poster is yellow with black text and a black cartoon depiction at bottom of four characters (l-r): A man with his hand in a shining jewelry box, a woman in love, a man with a sabre and feathered hat, and a man in a robe, slippers and nightcap furtively carrying a shining letter. This poster advertises for two performances of Goethe's works, "The Mood of the Lover" and "The Accomplices".
• Paul Claudel: Mittags Wende, mit Anne Else Paetzold Jörg Gudzuhn Dieter Mann Peter Reusse, DDR-Erstaufführung Regie Rolf Winkelgrund Bühne Jürgen Heidenreich Musik Ralf Hoyer
  This poster is mostly beige, and depicts a woman in a hat and sleeveless dress leaning against a pole with her hand on a railing in colored pencil. A man stands behind her, with a third man at left looking out over with back to viewer and a fourth man at right also looking out over railing but facing viewer. This poster advertises for the DDR premiere of "Wednesday Change", from Paul Claudel, starring Anne Else Paetzold and directed by Rolf Winkelgrund.
• My Fair Lady: Alan Lerner & Frederick Loewe- Kleist Theater- Musical
  This poster is blue gray with a cut-out cartoon depiction in black and white of a woman in a hat, with hair colored in brown and shirt splotched with purple watercolor. A cut-out mouth strip from a color photograph is across the cartoon's mouth. The title is in white at the top with black text underneath. This poster advertises for a performance of the musical "My Fair Lady" from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
• My Fair Lady, Nach George Bernard Shaws „Pygmalion” und dem Film von Gabrial Pascal, Buch von Alan Jay Lerner- Landestheater Halle
  This poster is pink with a black silhouette of a woman in a hat facing right at top, and an flipped mirror image of the same woman in a more ragged hat with frazzled hair at the bottom. Between them is title in white outlined in black, with reflected outline below. the remaining text is at the bottom in black. This poster advertises for a performance of the play "My Fair Lady" after George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and the film by Gabriel Pascal. Music from Frederick Loewe and German translation from Robert Gilbert.
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg- Komische Oper
  This poster is white with a painted depiction of a tree in the center against a blue background. The tree appears to have several houses or architectural structures built into the trunk, and appears fuller on the right than the left. The text is in blue at the bottom. Advertises for the opera by Wagner "The Master Singer of Nürnberg".
• Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer oder Die Einführung der Buchhaltung: Ein Stück von Dieter Forte - Inszenierung Hanns Anselm Perten - Ausstattung Falk von Wangelin- DDR-Erstaufführung, Volkstheater Rostock
  This poster is white with black gothic text at top. An antiquated black and white drawing at bottom of a man shaking hands with an evil-looking religious figure who has pulled his hand off is featured. The latter is followed behind by other figures with various animal heads. Advertises for "Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer, or The Introduction of Accounting", from Dieter Forte and was the play's premiere in the DDR.
• Oper von Gerhard Rosenfeld: Der Mantel nach Nikolai Gogols gleichnamiger Novelle von Gerhard Hartmann- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Uraufführung
  This poster is white with black sketch of an older man looking into his own face, which is about this size of his body, and followed behind by an even larger replication, followed by a larger one, and so forth. The text is in black at the top left with performance title, "The Mantle", in red. This was the premiere of the opera from Gerhard Rosenfeld.
• Moritz Tassow: Komödie von Peter Hacks, Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki
  This poster is black at the top with gold and brown uneven horizontal stripes at bottom representing sand or some other landscape. A black silhouetted figure lies on his back in the middle of the sandy landscape looking up at a red and orange shooting star. The text is in white at the top left. This poster advertises for the comedy "Moritz Tassow" from Peter Hacks.
• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Uraufführung, Meister Röckle: Oper für große und kleine Leute, Musik Joachim Werzlau, Text Günther Deicke
  This poster is white with a depiction of a man in a large overcoat hanging over a telescope at top, with a little girl at left and boy at right. A parrot sits on left side of the telescope and a dog sits on the right side of the boy. At the bottom is a demon rolling around in flames. This poster advertises for the premiere of the children's opera "Master Röckle", with music by Joachim Werzlau and text by Günther Deicke.
• Maxim Gorki Theater- Studiobühne, Monolog für 2, Uraufführung: von Victor Contreras mit Jörg Gudzuhn
  This poster is divided horizontally between a blue-white sky background and pale green for the ground. A double-headed figure in a vest and tie stands in center, with both heads facing toward each other and a rainbow connecting their mouths. The text is in black above and below the figure. Poster has a white border surrounding it. This poster advertises for the premiere of "Monologue for Two", from Victor Contreras with Jörg Gudzuhn.
• Macbeth: Oper von Giuseppe Verdi- Landestheater Halle
  This poster is white with an abstracted black line drawing of Macbeth wearing a gold crown, and holding a decapitated figure in his right hand. The title is at the top in red with text underneath in black. This poster advertises for Verdi's opera "Macbeth" based on the work of Shakespeare.