East German Poster Database

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• Theater in der Zimmerstraße/Renate Loeper ž Thomas Wittig ž Karsten Mewes ž Roland Pietzsch ž Bärbel Lober in:/Gasparone/Operette von Carl Millöcker/Musikalische Leitung: Diether Noll Inszenierung: Waltraud Prinz/Gasparone/Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
  Poster is divided in half horizontally. Top half is pink with black text, depicting a bandit mask and a red heart inside the letter "o" of "Gasparone". Bottom half ins inverse, black with pink text. Advertises for the operetta "Gasparaone" directed by Diether Noll.
• Peter Hacks/Die Fische/Maxim Gorki Theater
  Poster depicts a (mostly) black and white photo compilation of a fish, in the loosest sense of the term. Front features a human eye, some kind of animl tongue, and green and orange "nose". Black lines point to key features of the "fish" labeling them with letters as in a textbook. Below poster is divided vertically into purple and olive segments, the former with white script the latter with black type. Advertises for a performance of Peter Hack's "The Fish".
• Goethe Faust/Zweiter Teil/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
  Poster is grayish beige with charcoal or pastel line sketches of varioius figures blended together. Devil figure in blue features prominently toward right side of the poster. Advertises for a performance of the second part of Goethe's "Faust".
• Die Fledermaus/Theater Greifswald 86/Operette von Johann Strauss
  Poster is dark purple and depicts what appears to a paned window, or bars with sky behind. Various objects cloat outside in cartoon style, including a fan, lipstick, dice, beer bottle, spectacles, etc. Title of play in white cartoon text outlined in black with remining text in chalkboard font at right. Advertises for the operette "The Bat" from Johann Strauss.
• Fürst Igor/Alexander Borodin/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is black with depiction in center of hawk in profile against orange sun in black, purple, yellow, green and orange. Title in green vertical on either side with remaining text in white top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of "Prince Igor" by Alexander Borodin.
• Goethes Faust/in seiner unsrprünglichen Gestalt/Bühnen er Stadt Gera/(Urfaust)
  Poster is black with red border. In center is white negative space with black outlines forming profiles of two individuals facing each other. Gray indecipherable text and symbols near top of space. White text top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of Goethe's "Faust" in its original form.
• 25 Jahre Staatszirkus der DDR
  Poster depicts portrait of an elephant with raised trunk and red tassle on its head. Yellow inner border with green outer border. Red star at each corner. White banner across bottom right corner with black text announces the 25th anniversary of the DDR State Circus.
• Berliner Ensemble/Walter Jens/Der Fall Judas/Es plädiert Peter Bause/Einrichtung/Regie Holger Teschke/Premiere 25.3.1990/11.00 Uhr Foyer Weiterhin im Spielplan
  Poster is a yellow/red gradient with text in orange/navy gradient. Advertises for performance of "The Case of Judas" from Walter Jens by the Berliner Ensemble. Directed by Holger Teschke. Play's premiere.
• 25 Jahre/Puppentheater Berlin
  Poster is black with rows of cartoon depictions of various puppet characters in profile, including king, queen, chicken, dogg, clown, wizard, jester, criminal, etc. Top left is the Puppentheater Berlin insignia with white text. Poster celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Puppentheater Berlin. Note: Tag on back with poster information.
• Victor Contreras/Der Falschspieler/Volksbühne
  Poster is mostly grayish beige with white near bottom. Depicts what could be construed as the black sihouette of a person's head from behind, with a large white patch and black smeared all over. In center is a black figure "102" of two men in athelietic outifts stretching. Human eye visible to the right. Text in black script. Advertises for a performance of VIctor Contrera's "The False Player".
• Carl Maria von Weber/Der Freischütz/Romantische Oper/Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam/Musikalische Leitung: G. Lienicke/Regie: P Kartaloff a. G./Ausstattung: K.P.M. Wulff
  Poster features an abstract depiction of what appear to be two bare tress, one darker and one lighter, with the latter twisted around the former to the the point that it snapped in half. Outlines are emphaiszed with red and black lines. Text in black top left and bottom, with Theater in red bottom left. Advertises for a performance of "The Marksman" by Carl Maria von Weber.
• Schalls Fragen Dritter Klagen Brecht Antworten Abend/Karl-Heinz Nehring, Klavier/Theater im Palast
  Poster is beige with black text. Advertises for a performance of Schall's "Ask, Lament, Answer" by Karl-Heinz Nehring on the piano.
• Tibor Déry/Fiktiver Report über ein Amerikanisches Pop-Festival/Collage der Volksbühne Berlin/Tibor Déry Fiktiver Report über ein Amerikanisches Pop-Festival/Karusseit ž Barthel ž Montag ž Beyer ž Rothert ž Schmitt ž Gysi ž Acker ž Hübchen ž Stegemann ž T
  Poster is white with large red "v" shape top center. Majority of text in black type-writer font. Title diagonal across center from bottom left to top right. Author top right and theater information bottom center. Remaining text in box bottom right. Advertises for a performance of Tibor Déry's "Fictitious Report about an American Pop Festival".
• Feuer Marianne!/im Staatlichen Puppentheater Neubrandenburg
  Poster depicts (in collage) a sky with a hot air balloon in center. Balloon is shaped like a distorted human head in profile. A woman in Renaissance painting style sits on the edge of the balloon, while a Native American woman with a basekt hangs from the side by a green snake, letting flowers drop from her basket. Smaller balloon with the word "Hawaii" across center is visible to the left. Text floats out of an open envelope bottom right in red and black. Advertises for a performance of "Fire Marianne!".
• Fra Diavolo/Daniel François Esprit Auber/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is mostly red. Depicts two men in working-class outfits (overalls,jackets) raising their hats in unison as if in a performance. Red theater curtain behind. Text in white script at top and print at bottom. Advertises for the opera "Fra Diavolo" [Brother Devil] from Daniel François Esprit Auber.
• HUAC/Der Fall Eisler/Nach den Protokollen des Ausschusses für unamerikanische Tätigkeit von GUDRUN und HANS BUNGE Uraufführung/Es spielen Heinrich Buttchereit Wolfgang Holz Erhard Köster Hans-Peter Minetti Wolfram Handel Siegried Kilian Ingrid Leipold Pet
  Poster depicts black and white portrait of Hanns Eisler speaking at a microphone with raised pointed finger. Title in black at top with remaining text at bottom. Advertises for a play titled "The Case of Eisler", based on the minutes of the Committee for Un-American Activities. Performed by the Berliner Ensemble.
• Walter Jens/Die Friedensfrau/DDR-Erstaufführung Bühnen der Stadt Gera
  Poster is khaki with black outline painting of a heart cutting through a knife blade in center. Text in black top left and bottom right, with theater information top right in black on yellow. Advertises for a performance of "The Peace Woman" from Walter Jens.
• Marieluise Fleißer/Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt/Berliner Ensemble
  Poster is black with red type. Advertises for a performance of "Purgatory in Ingol", from Marieluise Fleißer and performed by the Berliner Ensemble.
• 29. und 30. April 6./7./13. und 14. Mai 3. und 4. Juni '88/Frankfurter Abend No. 3/Kleist Theater Frankfurt/Oder, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße
  Poster background is a black and gray photograph whose subject is indistinguishable with black border left and right. Various black and white urban photos collaged at right. Four abstract shapes in green, blue, yellow and red randomly superimposed toward center. Text in white top left and white on black at bottom. Advertises for a "Frankfurter Evening".
• Der Fiedler auf dem Dach/(Fiddler on the Roof)/Komische Oper Berlin
  Poster is a mostly green. Painted depiction of a fiddler in colorful attire and red hat standing atop a roof with city visible below. Two orbs (presumably moon and stars) visible as well as several stars and two birds. Text in white and black scrimpt, top and bottom. Advertises for the "comic opera" "Fiddler on the Roof" to be performed in Berlin.
• Leipziger Opernhaus/Ludwig van Beethoven/Fidelio
  Poster is navy with white sliver coming down from top right toward center, gradually fading into background color. Text in aqua and white, top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of the opera "Fidelio" by Beethoven.
• Der Fahrer und die Köchin/von Albert Wendt/im [Deutsches Theater] Kleine Komödie
  Poster is gray with black and white line drawing in center of a man and a woman looking at each other from opposite ends of a white rectangle. Scattered around the poster are black line drawings of various animals, signs, architectural features, etc. with accompanying black text. Title in black at top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of "The Driver and the Cook" from Albert Wendt.
• Fidelio/Ludwig van Beethoven/Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt
  Poster is blue gradient with dark blue text at top. Depicts a broken concrete wall. Remianing text in gray at bottom Advertises for a performance of the opera "Fidelio" by Beethoven.
• Die Fontäne von Bachtschissarai/Ballett in vier Akten/Musik von Boris Assafiew/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  Poster features faded sepia portrait of a woman's face with hair pulled back. Below are three sepia photos outlined in black, one of a graveyard, one of a battlefield covered in corpses, and one of a different graveyard. Text in black top left and in black outline below and top right. Advertises for a performance of the ballet "The Fountain of Bachtschissarai" with music by Boris Assafiew.
• Kleist-Theater/Der Freischütz/Romantische Oper von Carl Maria von Weber
  Poster is black with a blue flowered garland depicted at top, decorated with tiny white skulls and a blue ribbon. Text at top-center in gray. Advertises for a performance of the romantic opera "The Marksman" by Carl Maria von Weber.