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This poster is white with a black border at left and bottom. It depicts a black, block print of a male figure, with face visible at bottom. The text is in white along the border. This advertises for performance of the opera "Othello" composed by Giuseppe Verdi based on Shakespeare's work.
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This poster depicts a spherical object in the midst of white speckled blue background meant to simulate space. The sphere (representing the moon) is filled with a collage of various culture symbols with white text going around the left edge giving the title of the opera. A gray space shuttle touches it from the bottom left corner. This poster advertises for an opera titled "The Journey to the Moon", from Jacques Offenbach's Opera Extravaganza.
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This poster is black with small indiscernible black and white photo in center. The title of play is at the top in white script with the remaining text in white at the bottom left. This poster advertises for the pantomimed play "Orpheus", directed by Seidemann.
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This poster is a painting of a woman in a low-back dress dancing with a ghostly blue man who has presumably shoved a knife into her back. In the background is a window showing a night sky with red stars. The text is in blue and red in the top left corner. This poster advertises for the play "Open Couple" starring Franca Rame and Dario Fo.
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This poster is red with a red and black abstract depiction of a male with arms raised (presumably Othello) at the bottom. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for a performance of the opera "Othello" based on Shakespeare's work with the composition by Giuseppe Verdi.
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This poster is black, depicting night sky. In the foreground in white with black lines is a depiction of two ghostly figures, one male one female, with the latter seemingly pulling back the former. The ground is littered with papers and trash. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for the opera "Orpheus and Eurydice".
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This poster is white with an abstract black sketch portrait of a man upside down. The text is in black, partially smeared, at bottom. It advertises a performance of George Enescu's lyric adaptation of Oedipus.
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This poster is tan with a cupid sketched in black flying towards the bottom of the poster. Three white clouds float above. The title is in black on a grayish banner at the bottom. It advertises for Francesco Cavalli's opera "Ormindo".
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This poster is green and depicts a queen of spades card in center with black and white depictions of a man and a woman instead. The spades are half black/half red. Its text is in black on all sides of card. This poster advertises for Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame" opera.
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This poster depicts a composition of scenes from various fairytales. It includes in the depiction a large-eared giant, a hedgehog, an owl, a girl in rabbit costume, a fox in a suit, a witch, etc. All are within a wooden double-door frame with night sky background. This poster advertises for "Pollicino", a "fairy tale opera for children of all ages" from Hans Werner Henze. It was the opera's DDR premiere.
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This poster is khaki with black lining on an olive grid in center. Behind the grid is a clock showing 12 past 4. Black bird silhouettes are shown on either side of grid. The text is in black above and below. It advertises for the small play "Passage" by Christophe Hein.
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This poster is black with a black and white line drawing of a woman. The woman's face is partially overlaid with a black and white grid. Text in placed in white at the top right and bottom right corners. This poster advertises for the opera "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen.
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This poster is a photograph of attic "junk", for lack of a better term, including a gold glove, twigs, old rope, wooden boards, and a crown-like detached architectural detail. The text is in white superimposed at the bottom. It advertises for the "Theater fairytale from Shakespeare" titled "Puck" with music by Felix Mendelssohn.
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This poster is black with white island-style etched visual in center of three free-falling individuals and various tropical flora/fauna. The is some color around the bottom right corner. The text is in white below. It advertises for the opera "The Pearl Fishers" by Georges Bizet. This was the opera's premiere in the DDR.
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This poster is black with a brightly colored abstract depiction of a woman in pink and yellow standing on a coast with Greek ship in background. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's Pericles. It was the play's premiere in the DDR.
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This poster has a red inside border and white outside border. Inside the border is composed of a yellow background and three red, circular finger puppets in front. The text is in black at the top and center. This poster advertises for Berlin's puppet theater.
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This poster is composed of a red patterned border with blue pattern inside fading again into red in center via rectangular segments. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for the opera "Parisfal" by Richard Wagner.
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This poster is brown with an oval in center bordered by watercolor floral boughs. Inside is a woman in short red dress with a musical horn standing atop a gold ball and a man left and woman right seemingly drowning. The poster advertises for the small play "Periphery" by Czech playwrite František Langer.
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This poster is gray with blue text and red underlining. It advertises for the play "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg", by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Vera Oelschlegel. It is possibly signed by artist on back.
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This poster is depicts a woman in a long white robe with pink gradient background overshadowed by abstract black clouds that fall into black and blue tendrils. The title is in white at the top and black at bottom. It advertises for the comic opera, "Fantastic Symphony," to be performed during Berlin's "Ballet Evening".
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This poster is black with a gray cube depicted in center. One corner has been cut out and is shown in green in front. The text is in black on white, at the top with green and black underlining. It advertises for a play by Heinrich von Kleist titled "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg".
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This poster is blue with a black border. It depicts a black passenger ship with lit windows and a red man who has been stabbed n the chest, with an anthropomorphized death behind him. The title in yellow is at the top with author in blue below. This poster advertises for a play titled Paris. Paris possibly by Michail Bulgakow.
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This poster is green with black text top and bottom. The title of the opera is in white handwritten script at the center. It advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "Parsifal".
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This poster is a painting of three garden statues in Greek style on pedestals, each holding a different instrument. The text is in black type at the top. It advertises for the 33rd "Park Fest Play" at Sanssouci, from the 17th through the 26th of June, 1988.
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This poster is a photograph of a Prussian soldiers on horseback from behind. The horse has "DDR" painted on its hindquarters, in manner of stickers seen on the backs of German cars. The title of play in blue gothic top and red script bottom with the remaining text in black type. It advertises for the comedy titled "The Prussian Cometh [is coming]", by Claus Hammel.