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Poster is navy with cartoon depiction of a red Viking ship with name of theater printed on sail and a girl in blue kerchief inside. Ship appears to be floating through clouds, with an owl and sun outisde the ship. Title of play is printed in different colored letters above and below picture (blue, white red, gold) with remaining text at bottom in white. Advertises for a performance of "The Fire-red Flower", directed by Vladimir Kusmin.
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Poster is mostly covered with an abstract painting of what is presumably hell, with several humanoid figures in red and gray brush strokes who apear in agony. Figures blend together and into random flame-like brush strokes. Title in black at top. Advertises for a performance of the first part of Goethe's "Faust".
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Poster is green with large Deutsches Theater symbol in red on yellow at left. Text in yello script at right and bottom left. Advertises for a performance of "The False [Counterfeit] Coin", by Maxim Gorki.
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Poster is largely a compilation of medieval meteoric/astronomic imagery pritned in black and gray. Top right imagery appears to have been ripped away to reveal a red layer with black printed text (sentences are incomplete as we are unable to see the entire layer). Possibly from the play. Title and details of performance at bottom with play title in 3D red letters outlined in black and remaining text in black on red. Advertises for a performance of "Faust" by Goethe.
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Poster is off-white with a background an orange-scalephotograph of what appears to be an architectural framework. Superimposed in the center is a red abstract painting of a partially nude woman in a tutu with two individuals clinging to her legs, which are also depicted as nude women. Individual at right appears to be a clown. Text at top and bottom in red-brown. Advertises for a comedy from Peter Hacks titled "The Peace".
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Poster is gray with black text top right. Left to bottom of poster in black are printed raised hands (6). Advertises for the opera "Fidelio" by Beethoven.
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Poster is off-white with black border. Prominently features abstract painting of a man with his ands behind his back and head down, with another indivdual behind to the left with fist raised (face obscured) and a woman to the right who is leaned over and covering her face with her hand. Advertises for a muscial titled "Fiesta" from Robert Hanell based on the book "Fiesta in Mozares" by Prudencio de Pereda. Play's premiere.
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Poster is black with a large circle in center depicting a ship with mountainous region behind in blue and black. Text in gray at top and bottom hugging circle advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman". Note: Poster has tag on back with information regarding artist, theater, etc. from the "Hundred Best Posters of 1980".
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Poster is an abstract painting of a humanoid figure with white face and empty blue eyes, red lips and black garb floating amidst a geometric design In predominately blue, purple, red and black. Green corner bottom right has black and white text. Advertises for a performance titled "The Fortress".
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Poster is black with two black and white portraits of two middle-age men [?] with longer hair. Only left and right halves of faces are visible respectively, as they are bisected by a black rectangle with text depicted in white and blue. At bottom is the upside-down head of a Greek statue in black and white. Advertises for "Ballet 88" which features two performances: "Many Legs - Many Sins" and "A Night of Orpheus", both by Inge Berg-Peters.
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Poster depicts a black chair on a red surface with shadow falling to bottom left corner. Behind chair is black paint in spray-painted pattern on white. Title at top in black. Advertises for a play by Heinar Kipphardt titled "Brother Eichmann".
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Poster is white with black border and black text at bottom. Depicts a black and white painting of a nude female (headless) torso with feathered wings instead of arms. Advertises for the tragedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "The Visit from Old Woman".
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Poster is a black and white photo close-up of a line of female dancers queued perpendicular to bottom of poster. Title of performance, Berjoksa, in orange vertical at left. Beneath each letter is white text, giving details of dance performance. Performed by the State Academie Dance Ensemble of the USSR with artistic director Mira Kolzowa, to be perfromed from the 26th through the 19th of October at 8 pm.
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Poster is black with casual block text in yellow and white. Advertises for the comic opera "Boris Godunow" with Modest Mussorgski.
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Poster depicts a window divided into six panes but centered on right three. Female eye is visible through top right pane with lips barely visible center right. The rest of her face is obscured. Poster has black border with title in white top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of "La Bohéme".
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Poster depicts a beard edman in a black hat and glasses wearing a suit and bowtie with black and white vertical striped pants riding a stick horse. To the left is a much smaller woman seen from the back in traditional dress engrossed in a book and to the right is a clown in an Elizabethan collar and dress holding a flag with blue, yellow, and red stripes over his head. Canvas hanging behind reads "1926 1986/Wi swacken platt!" Remaining title top and bottom in white, advertises for "Stage" from Fritz Reuter".
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Poster is black and white, with an oval photograph of three bald female mimes in center wearing white robes and man behind looking down with a pair of open scissors in his right hand. Title at top and bottom white on black. Advertises for a performance of "Blaubart", fiver burlesques in one play, from Burkhart Seiemann, by the DT Pantomime Ensemble. Note: Poster is pasted to black cardstock.
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Poster is white with irridescent gray border. Title at top navy at left and black at right. Text inside border divided into three columns, details events being held during the 5th International Bach Fest in conjunction with the 60th Bach Fest held by the New Bach Society and the Bach Handel and Schütz celebration of the DDR, from March 19th through March 27th, 1985.
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Poster is black with white rectangle in center depicting two nearly identical women in profile facing left who appear pregnant. The one in fore is wearing a low-cut black outfit while the woman behind is wearing a similar outfit in orange. Cans of cat food appear to be falling from beneath their shirts. Title of performance in white at top with remaining text in black vertical at left and right inside borders of rectangle. Advertises for the farce "Will not pay!" from Dario Fo.
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Poster is white and depics black and white German military helmet probably dating to the Weimar Republic. Attached to the pointed decoration on top of the helmet is a flag with black, white and red horizontal stripes. Title at bottom in black, with black and white beaver above at left. Advertises for "The Beaver Pelt" from Gerhart Hauptmann.
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Depicts a woman wearing a leotard with yellow high heels and a large flower hat that is predominantly white with blue dots. Woman's face is without features except for her lips. Title diagonal in white caps across center advertises for "Brazil Tropical", a special performance from the 19th of May through the 24th at 7 pm.
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Poster is brown and depicts blurred brown-scale individual in tail coat, walking slightly hunched over with hands behind his back. Superimposed in gold script are the words "Read my words, hear my cry, follow my deeds". Remaindant text in white on black at bottom. Advertises for a performance of the opera "Büchner", starring Klaus Harnisch.
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Poster is white with black line drwaing of a storefront bottom center. Superimposed ar the outlines of two men in fedoras, in orange, who appear to be staning on a walkway leading toward the storefront. At top is a portrait of shakesperea in black and white. Text in black at top. Advertises for a performance of Shakepseare's "The Two Gentlemen from Verona", directed by Zillmer.
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Poster background is yellow with pink cocentric cirles moving outward from a single dot in the right corner of a pink chair. Green shards of material appear to be flying out from the center, four have yellow text inscribed in them giving the names of people involved in the performance. Title of performance at top in blue and pink: "Motion in Scenes in Motion". Performance's Premiere.
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Poster depicts a chain-link fence with a red high-heeled shoe caught in one of the links against a dark blue background speckled with red. Title in white on black top right, right vertical, and top left vertical. Advertises for a play titled "The Possessed Bakchai" from Euripides. DDR Premiere.