East German Poster Database

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• Landestheater Halle- Das Aller-heiligste: Drama von Ion Druţă, Regie: Peter Sodann
  This poster is blue and depicts a cartoon tree with limbs chopped off and scattered on the ground, and a large chunk cut out of the trunk turned into woodchips. The axe lays nearby. This poster's text is in white outlined in black on either side of the tree. It advertises for a drama titled "The Holy of Holies", by Ion Druţă and directed by Peter Sodann.
• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Aufforderung zum Tanz: Romantische Ballettszenen in Choreographien von Marius Petipa und Michail Fokin
  This poster is green with a black and white depiction in the top center of an angel in the Victorian style. The text in darker green is at the top and bottom with performance title in white directly below the image. This advertises for a ballet titled "An Invitation to Dance", from Marius Petipa and Michail Fokim.
• Reineke Fuchs: Oper für Schauspieler- Deicke Zechlin- Theater der Freundschaft
  This poster has a black and white depiction of a fox and a what looks like a large rat, both standing on their hind legs. The fox is reaching its left paw out toward the rat, who has his nose in the air and is carrying a cross. The title in red ("Reynard the Fox") is at top in red and appears to be dripping with blood. The remaining text at the bottom is in red and black. This poster advertises for an opera with the text written by Gunter Deicke and composed by Ruth Zechlin.
• Der Revisor: Nikolai Golgol- Maxim Gorki Theater
  This poster is black with a black on yellow titled followed by a white chalk-style description at bottom. The top features a white portrait of a man's face with open mouth comprised entirely of white chalk squiggly lines. This poster advertises for a performance of "The Auditor" from Nikolai Gogol.
• Shakespeare: Romeo und Julia- Städtische Theater, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  This poster is black with white text bordering all sides (Romeo und Julia are opposite each other in larger text left and right). A stylized red flame in in the center. This poster advertises for a performance of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare.
• Romeo and Julia: Ballet von Sergeij Prokofjew- Deutsch Staatsoper Berlin
  This poster is a black and white (predominantly black) blurred photo with an indistinguishable object, but probably a person. The title is in white and black on white on the top left and right sides. It advertises for a ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet from Sergei Prokofiev based off the work of William Shakespeare.
• Recital: R M Rilke- Vera Oelschlegel, Hans-Peter Minetti
  This poster is off-white with black text bordering all sides but the right, where it is formatted normally. There is a black and white sketch slightly left of center that depicts dead trees with branches growing abnormally vertical and spiky. The poster advertises for a recital of Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Vera Oelschlegel and Hans-Peter Minetti.
• Rigoletto/Guiseppe Verdi/Theater der Bergarbeiter Senftenberg
  Poster is black with gray text at top. Depicts a white drama mask with red blush, broken in half, slightly left of center. Poster advertises for a performance of Verdi's opera "Riogletto".
• Romeo und Julia/Landes Theater Dessau/Shakespeare
  Poster depicts a woman in profile with a hand running through her hair in red, left; at right is a partially obscured face with a hand reaching around the person's neck, in blue. Text in white outlined in black at top advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
• Oper in drei Akten von Giuseppe Verdi Kleist Theater/Rigoletto/Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave Deutsch: Walter Felsenstein und Horst Seeger
  Poster is white with a rough black sketch of a bloody dagger whose hilt is a belled jester's hat. Text in black at top. Advertises for a performance of Verdi's opera "Rigoletto".
• Das Rheingold Die Walküre Siegfried Götterdämmerung/Der Ring des Niebelungen/Richard Wagner/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is a an oil painting of a brown, gold and white vortex, with text superimposed in light brown at top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of Wagner's series of operas "The Ring of the Neiblungen".
• Komische oper/Jgor Strawinksy/The Rake's Progress/Wer früh sich regt - im alter Gepflegt
  Poster is a collage of painted images, primarily in blue and red, incluing an alligator, eye, cross, clock, circus performer in red boots, etc. Black and white photograph of an older man's head superimposed top center. Text in white and yello across the poster from top to center. Advertises for the comic opera by Jgor Strawinsky titled "The Rake's Progress"
• Rock Konzert Mit den Formationen Formeli & No-55 aus Berlin/Betriebsfest-speile 1983 VEB Chemieanlagen-baukombinat Leipzig-Grimma/Dienstag 10. Mai 1983 18.00 Uhr Willi-Schmidt-Sportstätte Grimma
  The poster is purple with orange and white text variously outlined/shadowed in pink and green. Advertises for a Rock Concert to be held on Thursday, May 10th, 1983 at 6 pm in the Willi-Schmidt-Sportstätte Grimma in Leipzig, featuring the Formeli and No-55.
• Jacques Offenbach/Ritter/Blaubart/Opéra bouffe/Kleist Theater
  Poster is white with a black line drawing depicting a stone structure built to look like it has four portruding fingers, the middle one of which is sticking straight up and ringed with yellow objects (alternately a phallic symbol). An orchid lies at the bottom of the structure, seemngly crushed underneath. Text in black along left side and at top. Advertises for Jacques Offenbach's opera "Ritter Blaubart".
• Maxim Gorki Theater/A. Gelman/Rückkopplung
  Poster is white with two black and white portraits at bottom of men in profile, facing each other. Superimposed on the portraits are white outline maps of the human brain, with labels and white dashed lines leading to the organ controlled by that part of the brain (seeing, hearing, speaking). Red lines connect the two mens' hearing, speaking, and seeing functions. Title above in black. Advertises for a performance of Alexander Gelman's "Feedback".
• Romeo und Julia/Shakespeare/Das Wintermärchen/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  Poster is black with white text, excepting "Shakespeare" which is printed in red with white outlining in spraypaint style across the center. Red line across the lower portion of the poster, with theater name underneath. Advertises for a performance of "Romeo and Juliet: A Winter Fairytale".
• Dei Räuber/Volksbühne
  Poster is a black and white copy of the frontpiece to Hobbe's Leviathan, with text superimposed in red at bottom. Advertises for a performance of Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers".
• Das Rheingold/Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bühnenfestspiel für drei Tage und einen Vorabend von Richard Wagner Regie: D. Rogge, Musikalische Leitung: J. Winkler, Ausstattung: M. L. Strandt
  Poster is white with large black and white, high contrast photo of a crowd of people in a commercial urban space. Difficult to make out any detail of photograph. Text in black at top advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Rhein Gold", directed by D. Rogge.
• Friedrich Schiller/Die Räuber/Maxim Gorki Theater
  Poster is a black and white portrait of an unamed man in partial profile, looking left. Man is whearing dark clothes with a white collar. Text below in light brown and orange. Advertises for Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers".
• Rigoletto/Verdi/Komische Oper
  Poster is black with black and white drawing of a man with left blue eye and right yellow eye. Right side of man's face has been warped to resemble an animal's. White mask covers the lower portion of his face, but teeth and tongue are visible through slit. Text in white at the bottom. Advertises for Verdi's comic opera "Rigoletto".
• Die Ratten/Gerhart Hauptmann/Berliner Tragikomödie/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster is white with large purple-gray poloroid of a young boy superimposed. Top right corner of the photograph has been burnt or torn off. Black and red stripes underneath at top left corner. Text top right. Advertises for a play titled "The Rats" by Gerhart Hauptmann.
• Der Rin [?]/Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki/Richard Wagner/Das Rheingold
  Poster is black with a collage of neon-colored images, including a green face with brown eyes, brighly colored butterfly, green urban architecture, red statue, gold mask, blue nude female form, and gray stone mask. "The Rhein Gold" superimposed in yellow from bottom left corner to center right. Remindant text at top in gray and white. "Der Rin" is probably the truncated title "Der Ring des Nibelungen", a series of operas of which Das Rheingold was the first of four. It is difficult to tell whether the poster was cut or meant to be displayed in a series so that the full title could be seen.
• Theater der Stadt Plauen/Tschingis Aitmatow/Die Richt Statt
  Poster depicts a black and white line sketch of a scene from Golgothawith two wolves near bottom right corner. Text along top left side and at bottom left corner in black shadowed with red. Advertises for the play "The Right Replacement" [difficult to translate], based on the novel by Tschingis Aitmatow.
• Friedrich Schiller/Die Räuber/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster depicts a rough black/gray/brown caricature of DaVinci's Vitruvian Man, slightly off-center to left. Text at bottom in brown orange and white outlined in black, respectively. Advertises for a performance of Friedrich Schiller's drama "The Robber".
• Die Reine Liebe/Ireneusz Irednyński/Amateurtheater des VEB MLW Medizintechnik Leipzig
  Poster is composed of irridescent silver background, with two white silhouttes depicted in an embrace and a red jagged line separating them down the middle. Line flows into red border at bottom. Text in black at top and bottom left corner Advertises for a monologue titled "The Pure Love".