East German Poster Database

Items

• Die Ric/Aitmatow/Sepssiwzew
  Poster is white and depicts a black and white line sketch of a person's arm extending from the right to left sides of the poster, with part of the individual's torso visible at right. Text in black at top says simple "The RIC" (probably an acronym). Names at bottom left, first white on black, second black on white. Probably co-authors or author and director.
• Landes Theater Halle/Rusalka
  Poster is blue with large abstract portrait of a woman's face in white, green, and shades of aqua at left. Text in black top right and bottom right. Advertises for a Czech opera by Antonín Dvořák.
• Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin/Richard III
  Poster is gray with lighter text at top and large script text in center announcing title of the play (Shakespeare's Richard III). Small light gray line portrait of Shakespeare center left.
• Brendan Behan/Richards Korkbein/Einie irische Unterhaltung/DDR-Erstaufführung/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
  Poster is a black and white photograph of a person's back, with miniature black birds in flight superimosed on top. Text in red bottom left and right. Advertises for an "Irish conversation" titled "Richard's Cork Leg", by Brendan Behan. Play's premiere in the DDR.
• Die Räuber/Leipziger Theater ž Schauspeilhaus Friedrich Schiller
  Poster depicts a painting of four men in Revolutionary-era dress, some standing with raised arms, in front of a man who has fallen to the ground with raised sword. Black border around painting. Text in whit gothic script at bottom. Poster advertises for a play from Friedrich Schiller titled "The Robbers".
• Rosa Linde & 3 Knappen/ein Märchen/von Peter Brasch/Theater der Freundschaft
  Poster depicts an empty santa coat (red with white fur trim) and a crown floating above, with purple high-heeled shoes in front. White background. Text at top in purple with green shadowing reads "Rosa Linde and the three Scoundrels", a fairytale by Peter Brasch.
• Revisor oder Katze aus dem Sack: Lustspiel von Jürgen Gross- Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam
  Poster depicts a purple cat in a suit and tie with human arms and legs on all fours, ears back and teeth bared. Title of play in large red text at top "Auditor", with subtext center left and right reading "Or the Cat's out of the Bag", from Jürgen Gross.
• Der Rosenkavalier/Komödie für Musik von Richard Strauss/Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt/Der Rosenkavalier/Musiktheater im Luxor Palast
  Poster is white with black text at top and bottom right. Small red rose top center. Bottom center in large, elaborate script reads "The Pink Cavalier". Poster advertises for the comedy of the same name by Richard Strauss.
• komische oper/Romeo und Julia
  Poster is a black and white depiction of two nude intertwined torsos at bottom with brick, splattered background behind. Text in white and red top center. Poster advertises for a comic opera interpreatation of Romeo and Juliet.
• 28.5.-5.6./Dresdner Musiktage 1955
  Poster depicts a freestanding harp between two columns, one in foreground is shadowed and in brown, one in background is white and contrasted in aqua. Text at bottom advertises for Dresden's 1955 Music Days, from May 28th through June 5th.
• Theater der Bergarbeiter Senftenberg/Die Romanticks/Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt/Eine Parabel über die Liebe
  Poster is black with white text top left and center. Top right corner depicts a nude man falling head-first toward the center of the poster in black and white dots. Advertises for a play titled "The Romantics: A Parable of Love", by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.
• Jewgeni Schwarz/Rotkäppchen/Theater Cottbus
  Poster depicts a giant wolf with its tongue hanging out and a bird flying between its legs. Little Red Riding hood walks past its hind legs below. Green border at bottom with black text. Poster advertises for the play "Little Red Riding Hood" by Jewgeni Schwarz.
• Theater der Stadt Cottbus/Der Rosenkavalier/Komödie für Musik von Hugo von Hofmannsthal Musik von Richard Strauss
  Poster is green and depicts a silhouetted figure in red and white patterned wings and white wig with a white sword between his legs. Green background with pink hearts. Poster advertises for the comedy "The Pink Cavalier" from Hugo von Hofmannsthal and music from Richard Strauss.
• Romeo and Julia/Ballet von Sergej Prokofjew
  Poster is red with black silhouetted male and female figures in center and green circle behind. Title in black on white at top with other text top left and bottom right. Poster advertises for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" from Sergej Prokofjew.
• Bühnen der Stadt Gera/Revue/Szenen für Tanztheater/Libretto: Bernd Köllinger Choreographie und Regie: Inge Berg-Peters Premiere 26. April 1984
  Poster is yellow and depicts three female legs emerging from a pink sirt on the left. One is bare, one is stockinged, and one is fishnets, all wearing black heels. Poster advertises for a "Revue" directed by Inge Berg-Pegers with scenes for dance theater.
• Bühnen der Stadt Gera/Regina B. Ein tag aus ihrem leben/Schauspiel von Siegfried Pfaff ž Uraufführung
  Poster is purple with 5 x 5 grid of the same black and purple female portrait. 2nd over 2nd down portrait is in black and white. Text in white bottom right. Poster advertises for a play title "Regina B.: A day in her life", from Siegried Pfaff. Play's premiere.
• Landes Theater Halle/Revue/Zum staunen und lachen unt weiter-machen…
  Poster is divided vertically into three segments and printed in yellow, green, red and white. First section has red and white text at bottom describing what attendees will see during the evening (sadness, friendliness, smallness, etc.). Middle segment has "Revue" written in red with "to marvel and laugh and move on" written in space between letters. Third segment has text in red and whit written at top detailing the director, writer, stage manger, etc. Poster advertises a revue taking place at the Landes Theater Halle written by P. Sodann and directed by Peter Sodann.
• Rinaldo/Oper von G. F. Hændel/Musikalische Leitung Christian Kluttig Regie Peter Konwitschny Bühne Helmut Brade Kostüme Katrin Scholz/Landes Theater Halle
  Poster depicts a knight with raised sword and and black and red cape looking over a field littered with body parts (severed human head, arms, feet, etc.). Poster is printed in red, black and white. Text at top in black and white. Advertises for an opera titled "Rinaldo" from G. F. Hændel and directed by Peter Konwitschny.
• Dürrenmatt/Romulus der Grosse/Regie: P. Sodann Ausstattng: R. Klemm/Landes Theater Halle/Neues Theater
  Poster depicts a Roman architectural structure supported by six columns balancing on an egg with overcast sky in background. Title in black at top. Poster advertises for a play titled "Romulus the Great" by Dürrenmatt and directed by P. Sodann.
• William Shakespeare/Die ganz außergewöhnliche und geklagenswerte Tragödie von Romeo & Julia/wie sie oft und mit großem Applaus öffentlich gespielt worden ist/Aus dem Englischen von B.K. TragelehnžRegie: Peter Schroth/Peter KleinertžAusstattung: Jürgen Nik
  Poster is black with white text. Red bar underneath William Shakespeare's name at top and red trapezoid beneath play title.
• Carl Maria von Weber/Oberon/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster background is a painted red texture, partially scratched away near the top to reveal the face of a stone statue. Text in white gothic script beneath. Advertises for the opera "Oberon" by Carl Maria von Weber.
• Omphale/Oper in drei Akten/Libretto: Peter Hacks Musik: Siegfried Matthus Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar Uraufführung
  Poster is orange with white border. Depicts the green ihouette of a man with a cut-out silhouette of a woman inside. Text in black at top. Poster advertises for an opera titled "Omphale" from Peter Hacks.
• Othello/Giuseppe Verdi/Volkstheater Rostock/Gabriele Schwabe, Ute Walther, Ruth Wischnewski, Hans Hamann, Günther Kurth, Heinz Lehmann, Peter Oschmann, Titus Paspirgilis, Iwan Popow, Jens Schreiber Musikalische Leitung: Gerd Puls Inszenierung: Matthias Po
  Poster is white with black and white janus-faced female portrait in center. Title of opera in red at top, with remaindant text in black underneath. Poster advertises for a performance of the opera "Othello" featuring Verdi.
• Brecht/Onkel Ede hat einen Schnurrbart/Lieder Gedichte Geschichten und Szenen für Kinder/Berliner Ensemble
  Poster is green with blue-outlined orange elephant carrying two children on either side of a man smoking a pipe. A third child hangs at the end of the elephant's trunk. Text in blue and orange at top. Poster advertises for a children's performance titled "Uncle Ede has a Mustache" by Brecht, featuring songs, poems, stories, and acting.
• Offenbach: Orpheus in der Unterwelt- Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  This poster is blue with a green and pink elaborate frame featuring a caricatured portrait of Shakespeare stabbing a nude Greek statue with a violin bow. The text is above and below. This poster advertises for the French opera "Orpheus in the Underword" by Jacques Offenbach.