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This poster is black with a black and white photo at bottom of a crowd of people (civilians) with their arms raise in a salute to Hitler. The text is in white on the diagonal from bottom left to top right. This poster advertises for the play "Mephisto" from Ariane Mnouchkine, after the novel by Klaus Mann.
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This poster is purple with black text. It depicts a antiquated-style wooden block-print drawing of a heart aflame in black center bottom. This poster advertises for Verdi's "The Force of Destiny".
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This poster is pink with an off-white border at the top. A seal bottom right with a crowned eagle and letters "F" and "R" combined, to look like the seal of Prussia, and a red heart beneath. The text at the top is black on white and red on pink, while the bottom is black on pink. Most of the text is in italics. This poster advertises for "Minna from Barnhelm or the Soldier's Luck", from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
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This poster is black with white and gray clouds in the center and the title superimposed in black and outlined in white. The theater's information is in white print at the top and playwright in white script at the bottom. This poster advertises for "Margarete" by Charles Gounod.
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This poster is black with a negative photograph of a man holding a rock facing a scoreboard at the top of a set of bleachers. The text is in white above and below the image. This poster advertises for a performance of "Match" from Jürgen Groß, directed by Bischoff.
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This poster is olive green in the center and fading to black at the left and right. "Match" is spelled out vertically in orange-red serif letters shadowed in black, with scratching over the letters "t" and "c" in white. The theater's information is at the top left in a black rectangle, with the remaining text in a green oval at the bottom right. this poster advertises for the play "Match" from Jürgen Groß.
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This poster is blue and depicts a woman in a red leotard and red shoes with her right leg raised. Her face is obscured by oval sign reading part of performance title ("für Penny"). The first part of title is in red script outlined in whiten at the top, with the dots above the "I's" as stars. The remaining text is in white script near the bottom, to the left and right of the depicted woman. This poster advertises for "A Million for Penny", a "criminal-musical" from Max Colpet with music by Lotar Olias and directed by Jörg Kaehler.
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This poster's background is white speckled with green. It is divided horizontally into segments speckled with varying thickness. The text is in black except for the name of the playwright in red, at the center. A large capital "M" sits at the top in black with white dots and "Montagbend" [Monday Evening] underneath. This poster advertises for the DDR Premiere of Emily Mann's "Still Life", produced by Robert Ebeling and starring Gisela Leipert.
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This poster is gray with a black and gray high-contrast depiction of a sculpture of what appears to be Atlas holding up the world. The text is in black at the top. This poster has a white border. It advertises for "Without Anger and Zeal", with ballads from Peter Hacks and music from Henry Krtschil and Egon Linde, starring Karin Gregorek.
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This poster is a vibrant green with a black and red minimalist painted depiction of Pinocchio (wearing a red cap) in profile facing left. The text is in black hand-painted text on the horizontal at the top and vertical from the left and right center and bottom. In the vertical text, letter spaces are filled in red. This poster advertises for the children's opera "Pinocchio's Adventures" from Kurt Schwaen.
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This poster is yellow with a depiction of an abstracted boy and girl. They look to be kissing, with the boy holding up the girl on the right. The text is at the bottom in yellow on black in a handwritten font. This poster advertises for performance titled "What is Love Called Here?", a play of "love and sexuality for people in and after puberty".
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This poster is black with a black and white depiction of a man with a monocle, top hat, pinstripe suit, and bowtie who is being embraced from behind by a woman in a hat attempting to pull his wallet from his jacket. The background is in red with black concentric lines. The text is in red and white on black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of "The Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde.
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This poster is black with white text, except for the performance title, which is in red. A large capital "M" is outlined in white at the top. At the bottom is a negative image in white on black of a human left eye and nose. This poster advertises for "Silent Village", a fragment of a documentary film on paper from Thomas Heise.
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This poster is green at the bottom right corner, beige in the center, and peach at the top left. The text is mostly in red script, with stage information in white on gray. This poster advertises for an "Evening of Songs" starring Georgette Dee and Terry Truck.
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This poster is white with black text at top left , and with "Amadeus" underlined in red. The center to bottom of poster is decorated with signatures in black by Mozart, with one in red underlined in black. This poster advertises for Peter Schaffer's "Amadeus".
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This poster is light blue with a darker blue grid superimposed and blue architectural plans in the center. A large black letter "M" is outlined in black at top with "Montagabend" (Monday Evening) below in black. A black sketch of a stylized sculpture torso atop a large die, with playwright and title is below in black. The remaining text is in blue and the theater name at very bottom in black. This poster advertises for "Business Travelers", conversations between Gubanow and Nitotschkin, produced by Günter Rüger and starring Eckhard Müller.
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This poster is purple with a white chalice decorated with a purple jagged line across top signifying a full glass and a red heart underneath. The text is in white at the top with the theater in white at the bottom. This poster advertises for comic opera "The Love Drink" from Gaetano Donizetti.
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This poster is off-white (potentially due to age) with black text. It depicts an angry black bull at the bottom with a sword stuck in his back and a torn red piece of cloth hanging off of his right horn. This poster advertises for the DDR premiere of "The Death Struggle of a Peaceful Death".
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This poster is a grayscale depiction of a ghostly covered architectural feature floating in fog above cobblestones. The text is in gray and white going on the vertical left and right at the top and horizontal at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the opera "La Bohème" by Puccini.
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This poster is off-white recycled paper. The text is in black at the top and bottom, with "2 Stueck." in red at the center right. The theater's information is in faint handwritten-text at the very bottom. It features a black line drawing in the center of a woman sitting bent over at a table facing right. Superimposed is an outline of the woman's head, sitting on top of her shoulders upright looking straight ahead, with dashed lines emerging outward from her eyes. The depiction is framed in red. This poster advertises for two performances by Čapek, "How to Create a Theater Piece" and "The Ascension of the Gallows [Kisch]".
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This poster's background is purple and scattered with orange gingerbread cut-outs outlined in black. Superimposed are line drawings of Hansel and Gretel in black and white, with random purple hatching. The children appear almost emaciated. The title is at the top left in purple on white, with the remaining text white on black top right. This poster advertises for the fairytale opera "Hansel and Gretel" from Engelbert Humperdinck.
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This poster is black with a white border on the top and bottom. At the top is "Kafka's Schloss" (Kafka's Castle") in black on white, with the author's information directly below in red. The bottom center of the poster is a large capital "K" followed by a period and a white square below. The theater's information is at the very bottom in black on white. The remaining text is at the center top in white on black. This poster advertises for "Kafka's Castle" from Hans Michael Richter in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Kafka's birthday. Performance's premiere.
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This poster is gray with the repeated text of "Die Revolution ist die Maske des Todes/Der Tod ist die Maske der Revolution" [The Revolution is the mask of death/The dead are the mask of the Revolution]. A large letter "M" is outlined in black at the top with "Montagabend" (Monday Evening) below it in black. "Der Auftrag" is below at the bottom scrawled in red. The remaining text is in black with Heiner Müller's name in red. This poster advertises for "The Order" from Müller.
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This poster's background is shades of blue and white done in watercolor to resemble a sky. It depicts two nude figures from above, each floating on a pair of butterfly wings and holding on to the "s" in performance title. The title is transparent but outlined in brown. The theater's information is in black at the bottom. This poster advertises for performance of "Vacation Whispers".
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This poster is black with the title in black shadowed blue at the top and dates below in white. It depicts a wooden crate floating on an ocean in white, blues and red. Two telescopic eyes emerge from the box looking right. The theater's information is at the bottom in white. this poster advertises for "Sea Crate", from February 6th through April 6th.