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Poster depicts Mozart from behind, holding a sheet of music behind his back, walking down an alleyway lined with brick (black and white). Above looms a black shadow in navy blue sky of a figure in a fedora. Text in black along left wall. Advertises for a play from Peter Shaffer titled "Amadeus", directed by Peter Sodann.
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Poster is white with black text at center top. Depicts two halves of a nude female form, left in color, right in silhouette, with the negative space between them forming the shape of a candlestick. Poster advertises for the musical comedy "Amphitryon", from Rainer Kunda. Play's premiere.
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Poster background is strongly Americana, with white stars on blue and red and white stripes. Features a portrait of Annie Oakley in oval in center, with title in Wild West-style script. Advertises for the American musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
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This poster is white with a cartoon depiction of a Soviet soldier with blonde pigtails protruding from either side of his head fastened at the base by red hearts. Their right leg is lifted up displaying a red high-heeled shoe. This poster advertises for comedy performance titled "Exceptionally", from Juri Winogradow, and was the play's premiere in the DDR.
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This poster is white with a black line drawing of a woman sitting on the ground embraced by a man beneath a grove of trees. The poster is splattered with green paint throughout and woman's dress is splattered with neon red paint. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for a musical performance of Händel's "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" performed by the Virtuosi Saxoniae.
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This poster is light brown with an off-white depiction of a bust of Alexander the Great with female busts (perhaps relatives) on either side facing toward him. The text is in the same color at bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the opera "Alexander" from Händel.
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This poster is green with a splattered black and white design. It depicts what could be construed as the red silhouette of an anthropomorphized tree, with root-like feet and leafy hair. The text is in handwritten white font. This poster advertises for a performance of Athol Fugard's "Aloen".
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This poster is white with a black painted depiction of two dancing zorbas, with black crisscrossed lines underneath. The title at top also painted in black, with red underlining. This poster advertises for a musical titled "Alexis Zorba" from Joseph Stein, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis and music by John Kander.
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This poster is printed in purple and black on white. The title is in white on black at the bottom. It depicts a purple flower on dotted background with collage of illegible, handwritten black text at the left. This poster advertises for a performance of the comedy "Amapola" from Omar Saavedra Santis.
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This poster is gray with text in black on white at top. A black arrow points down from text to a basket full of food, wine, and chocolates, with an axe included outlined in red. This poster advertises for a performance of "The Axe in the House" from Paul Gratzik, and was the play's premiere.
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This poster has coral background with black and white print. It depicts an armored Greek soldier chasing a nude woman with a cherubim pinching his nose as he does so (in Greek style). The text is in white at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the musical "Aphrodite and the Sexy Wars," and was the play's premiere.
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This poster is in black and yellow. It depicts silhouettes of nine individuals spread horizontally across the poster, with one in the foreground blowing on a trumpet. The poster is divided horizontally into a black horizon and yellow sky. The text is in black at the top and yellow in the bottom left. This advertises for the performance "The Ascent of Mt. Fuji", from Tschingis Aimatow and Kaltai Muhamedshanow.
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This poster is white with a partial depiction at the bottom left of an individual standing on the steps of a classic architectural building. This depiction is grayscaled, and cut to form a triangle pointing toward center of poster. The depiction is darker at center and becomes progressively lighter toward outer segments. This depiction is counterbalanced by a red triangle at right pointing toward it and overlapping at tip. The image becomes more orange toward center. The text is in black at the top left. It advertises for a play titled "The Auditorium", based on the novel by Hermann Kant.
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This poster is white with a black and white depiction of a woman at left wearing heavy clothing, a hat, and several layered necklaces and bracelets. The text is at the top right. This advertises for a play titled "The Old Woman Broods" from Tadeusz Różewicz and was the play's premiere in the DDR.
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This poster is black and depicts the black silhouette of an individual standing at the entrance of a multi-level stage filled with stage lights pointing at him (in black and white). The text is in white around the border and in black superimposed on white space at bottom. It advertises for a performance of "Records of a Dead Man" starring Manfred Heine and Erwin Berner.
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This poster is yellow and depicts an anthropomorphized windmill standing over a hunched older man with a cane dressed like a Prussian. The text is in gothic script at the left and right of the windmill. This poster advertises for a "bourgeois" comedy titled "The Miller from Sanssouci", from Peter Hacks.
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This poster is white with black stylized line drawing of a cathedral with three Romanesque arches and a cross atop the center, along with a hidden Swastika in the center. There is a white silhouette of a robed figure visible inside center arch. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for a play from Rolf Hochhuth titled "The Deputy".
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This poster is orange with large black text. The poster advertises for "The Beginning", a youth project from the Institute for Play Direction Art School in Berlin and the Berliner Ensemble. This project features pieces from Heiner Müller and Helmut Baierl, with music from Siegfried Matthus.
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This poster is white with an abstract black sketch in the bottom center. The sketch is circular, and prominently features individual eyes (detached from faces), along with nude figures and letters, all crossed by two white lines with a teardrop at the intersection. The title is in black at the top with black border around poster. It advertises for the ballet performance of "Abraxas", from Werner Egk.
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This poster is white and depicts a man in black embracing a woman in a green and red patterned dress. Both are on horseback (the horse is white with a black pattern). A black moon and stars are scattered across the poster background with text in black at top. This poster advertises for a performance of "Aucassin and Nicolette", or "Of Love from the Old Time", a love story set to singing, puppets, and music from Northern France in the 13th century, composed by Frieder Simon.
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This poster is white and is divided horizontally by a black border with green underneath. A yellow high-heeled shoe sits atop the border with exaggerated yellow and black shadow to look like a crown. The text is at the top in black with a yellow and green border and remaining text underneath. It advertises for the ballet "Aschenbrödel" with music by Sergei Prokofiev.
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This poster is orange, with a black 2-dimensional coastal landscape depicted and black with a silhouetted tree branch in foreground with white blossoms. The text is in black at the top. It advertises for a performance of "On Both Shores", from Alfred Matusche.
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This poster background is gray, and depicts a cartoon of Mozart in profile with a long pink tongue protruding from his mouth and yellow halo floating above his head. Sheet music is printed onto his wig. The text is in black on beige at top left, bottom left, and top right. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amadeus" by Peter Shafter.
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The poster is white with a mustard-colored border. It depicts (in black and white) on the left bust of Richard Strauss. The text at right is in mustard, blue-green, and black. this poster advertises for a performance of "Adrianne from Naxos" in celebration of Strauss' 100th birthday.
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This poster is grayscale, and depicts a man in a Greek costume blindfolded and holding a broken reed. There are hands that protrude from the right of the poster also holding broken reeds. The text is in white on black and in black top left. It advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.