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This poster's background is yellow and depicts a man in a black hat smoking a cigarette holding a woman with orange hair and purple hat in a black bra. The man is wearing purple boxing gloves and appears to have a black eye while the woman is wearing green eyeshadow. The text is surrounding the figures and in black at the top. This poster advertises for "Happy End", which is "15 rounds of good vs. evil" and is a comedy from Dorothy Lane.
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This poster is a blue gradient which depicts sky with a red flower at the bottom. The text is in lighter blue and white at the top. This poster advertises for "Possbile Stories or Scenes Against the Night" from Omar Saavedra, directed by Ulrich Voss.
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This poster's background is white with a print of black fir trees of various sizes. The center tree print includes profile of a witch at bottom. Below, cartoon depictions of Hansel and Gretel dressed in green and holding hands is featured. The text is in black gothic script at the bottom. This poster advertises for the "fairytale opera" of Hansel and Gretel from Engelbert Humperdinck.
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This poster is blue with a block depiction of a woman in white armor and a red hat riding a black horse. The text is in white script at the top. Advertises for George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan", which is about Joan of Arc.
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This poster is yellow with a cartoon depiction of a baby wearing a bonnet facing left. The bonnet forms a profile of a man facing right. The text is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for "The Man from Pourceaugnac", from Molière.
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This poster is white with a top and bottom border comprised of red asterisks. The title is in red, blue and black with the "u" in humor replaced by black hat shape and "r" replaced by a cane.
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This poster is white with a prominent black and white portrait of Goethe in the center. Above is title in black, and below is sketch of the theater.
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This poster has beige background with large white space at bottom that appears to have been burned out. A line drawing at right of space depicts a hand holding a lighted match
with the match in color. Above are three more similar drawings repeating vertically, but with different sleeves. The text is in black. This poster advertises for a performance titled "The Hypothesis about the Arson and the Bridge to Lowetsch on August 3rd 1925", from Georgi Mischew. This was the play's premere in the GDR.
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This poster is white with a black border and text in white on black at the bottom left. It depicts a man in profile, presumably Hoffmann, with handwritten and largely illegible text surrounding him and line drawings of scenes from the play, partially obscured by the text. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hoffmann's Tales" with the music by Jacques Offenbach.
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This poster is predominantly red, with a depiction of bald human head, with eyes outlined in black in manner similar to a bandit mask. The face is traced vertically down the center in red. The background has intersecting red and black lines with various words, names, and phrases. The title is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hamlet" by Shakespeare.
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This poster's background is divided vertically into black and blue, with white text on the former and black text on latter. In the center is an abstract portrait of a woman in a black negligee which has fallen off of her left shoulder. The woman is wearing purple eyeshadow with her hair in a bun. A black gramophone is featured in the bottom right corner. The left side advertises for "The Ascension of Galgonton" from Egon Erwin Kisch,
while the right advertises for "Nannie Goes Out" from Sean O'Casey.
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This poster is tan with a brown border. A sepia photograph in center features an ivy-covered theater stage with chandelier hanging from ceiling, presumably the Schlosstheater in Neuen Palais at Sanssouci. The text is in black and at the top and red at the bottom. This poster advertises for the opera by Mozart, "The Marriage of Figaro".
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This poster depicts a painted vortex in aqua, black and white, with the black silhouette of a bird whose wings have opened to match the curve of the vortex. A white origami bird flies above top right. The text is in white print at the bottom. This poster advertises for the opera "Halka" from Stanisław Moniuszko.
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This poster is divided vertically. The left features the right half of a black-and-white portrait of William Shakespeare, while the right features the left half of portrait but upside-down. The text is in white on black at each corner. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hamlet" directed by Peter Sodann.
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This poster's background is predominantly light blue, with darker blue splotches painted on top. It features a sketched snail-shell spiral in black, with various red pyramids pointing downward and appearing to pierce the spiral's surface. The text is in black below. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hoffmann's Tales" from Jacques Offenbach.
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This poster's background is mainly comprised of pink dots on white, with line drawings of individuals in the midst of various daily activities (certain elements, e.g. dress, flowers, buildings highlighted in pink or white). Superimposed on all of this is a large black and white portrait of E.T.A. Hoffmann. The title is at the top in handwritten black script on white, with the remaining text in black print underneath. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hoffmann's Tales" from Jacques Offenbach.
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This poster background is grayish white. It features a portrait of a bald female head lower left, comprised of a collage of lines, numbers, and images. Different intersecting black lines are throughout the poster, with the theater handwritten in black at top and the title in black print on white at bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of "Dog Heart", from Bulgakow and Tscherwinski.
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This poster is predominantly black, with an off-white arched shape in center depicting a nude black-and-white fairy wearing a string of pearls around her neck. Outside the arch are depicted a crescent moon and various stars. The fairy's right leg grows into a root system underneath the arch. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for a performance of "Good Morning, Beautiful"; "encounters with women based on minutes from the tapes of Maxie Wander".
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This poster is white with a hand-sketched depiction of a wine glass which has been tipped over. Spilled red wine is depicted in watercolor. The title of play is in handwritten black script that leans diagonal from center left to bottom right, with remaining text in black print at the top and bottom right. This poster advertises for the premiere of "Birthday Guests", from Jürgen Groß.
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This poster is olive green with a portrait of individual in profile at center, comprised of a collage of text and textured material. The facial features are drawn on, with hand-written text superimposed in black and red. Three red arrows point to the individual from the left. This poster advertises for performance of "Money for Maria" from Valentin Rasputin.
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This poster depicts a black and white pencil sketch of a skeleton smoking a cigarette and drinking a glass of presumably wine. It features hand-sketched text at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of Brendan Behan's "The Hostage", directed by Thomas Langhoff.
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This poster background appears to be concrete, or a textured paint canvas. The text is black and seems hand-painted. A small photograph bottom right features an image of a rocky shoreline. This advertises for "The Splendor and Death of Pablo Neruda", from Jorge Diaz. Production by Hanns Anselm Perten.
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This poster is black with beige text at the top and bottom. It depicts in the center what is probably a statue, but difficult to interpret. One individual in a top hat has been colored over with re lines and white stars on blue strip in manner of American flag, another in fore appears to be holding a gun. Inset higher contrast. This advertises for a performance of "The Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murietas" by Pablo Neruda.
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This poster features three diagonal beige lines with green and white photographs between each. On first line is pink and green text announcing name of performance and author, with inspiring author. The left portion of the text has been cut off. Next line is the same with inverse colors. Bottom line has colors of the first, and announces the theater. Advertises for "The Painting", by Armin Stolper, and inspired by a work by Daniil Granin. This was the play's premier performance in the GDR.
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This poster is black with a central part appearing to have been ripped away, revealing a pink grid on white. Superimposed is an image of a yellow vehicle engulfed in the mouth of a blue hippopotamus, which is standing on a black road drawn underneath. The text is in black on white at the bottom. This poster advertises for the Soviet satirical comedy "Garage" from Emil Braginskij and Eldar Rjasnaow.