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This poster is khaki with a black 18th century depiction of a man and woman in formal costume. The title is in gothic script at top with black text underneath. It advertises for the "Prussian Quartet", a "dinner party with chamber music and reading" by the Berliner String Quartet. Music by Haydn, Boccherini, and Mozart.
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this poster is an abstract depiction of storm on a face, in mainly blues, blacks, and greens. The title is in White and aqua at top. This poster advertises for the opera "Peer Gynt", from Werner Egk, based on the work of Henrik Ibsen.
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This poster depicts a mime with a JapaneseKabuki-esque face mask with three arms and three legs. It advertises for a pantomime play titled "Many Things are in One Thing", based on a teaching play by Bertolt Brecht. The title of play is in black on yellow, to the right, with text top right and left and bottom. Note: a strip has been cut from top left.
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This poster depicts a sepia photograph of a string puppet wearing a lace collar. The title of play is in black gothic script at top, with the remaining text underneath in black and on the left side. It advertises for a ballet titled "The Puppeteer", from Jan F. Fischer. This was for the ballet's premiere.
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This poster depicts a painted man in profile, with collared trench coat and hat, shielding his face with his hand; except he has no face. The Blue button on the coat bears title of the play in white. The remainder of the text is on the bottom and right. It advertises for a play by Christoph Hein titled "Passage".
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This poster is off-white with black text. It depicts rings of black stick-figure soldiers, beginning with primitive spears and shields, progressing to bow and arrow, rifle, cannon, tank, and finally one missile at bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the Greek tragedy "The Persian" by Aeschylus, adapted by Mattias Braun.
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This poster is black with a gray-white blurred depiction of a dancer on a stage that has moved from left to right. The title is in green and white at the bottom. It advertises for the French ballet "The Butterfly" by Jacques Offenbach. It is the ballet's premiere in the DDR.
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This poster is khaki with black-bordered fence pattern in center. Two green, ragged pieces of trash hang on the fence, presumably torn from third larger piece visible bottom left corner. The text is in black top right and bottom left. It advertises for the play "The Park" by Sean O'Casey.
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This poster is white with black text and depicts a red abstraction of two pairs of legs which have melded into each other, shadowed by similar in black. It advertises for the Berliner Pantomimes, to perform in the Theater vom Prenzlauer Berg.
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This poster is black with an abstract depiction in center of a woman in a tavern-like setting surrounded by a group of men. A blue, white, and red-striped bar runs diagonal across the top left corner of the depiction. The title of play is in blue on left side, with the remainder of text in white on right. This poster advertises a French play titled "Patriots", by Friedrich Wolf.
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This poster depicts a clown-like individual carrying a backpack on a black and white geometric background. Below in the style of red neon sign is "Pluft", with remaining text in black underneath. This poster advertises a "fairytale comedy" for children about a small ghost, by Maria Clara.
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This poster depicts a woman with long dark hair looking upward in green, black and white. the background is green and black, with text in white at the top. The poster advertises for a play by Sean O'Casey titled "The Park", to be performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Magdeburg. This play was directed by Horst Ruprecht.
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This poster is comprised of a yellow and white crossword-type background, with random cartoon pictures, colored dots, symbols, etc. Two scraps of paper show letters from Paul to Maria and vice versa. The theater name is in black in the form of a crossword, and the title of play in red, superimposed near the bottom around two large roses. This advertises for play titled "Paul and Maria", by Lutz Dechant.
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This poster depicts a black and white round room with a circular lamp hanging from the ceiling and three doorways against the back wall. The shadow of a person falls from window to the left. Maroon bars are superimposed throughout from the sides of the poster. The title is in black at the top and bottom. It advertises for a comedy titled "The Physicist" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
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This poster is a depiction composed of white and red-orange dots of the face of a bearded Greek statue. The poster advertises for a play titled "Protokoll einer Sitzung" (Minutes of a Meeting) by Alexander Gelman, to be performed at the Staatschauspiel Dresden.
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This poster is a sketched depiction from the neck down of a nude woman bound by what appears to be a long, dark blue tie. The title is in blue handwritten text at bottom with black type below. This is an advertisement for a play titled "Penthesiliea" by Heinrich von Kleist, to be performed at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.
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This poster is composed of a blue-gray speckled background with a green border. Across the top-center of poster runs a white chain with a green laurel in the middle and white-gray rag hanging over. The text is in black on either side and across the bottom. This poster advertises for a play titled "Prince Friedrich from Homburg", by Heinrich von Kleist, to be performed at the Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam.
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This poster is black with white creased "Personalbogen", or personal form, depicted in the center. Written across the form is "Prince of Wolkenstein", the title of the play by Rudi Strahl. Two holes have been cutout at the top of the form through which two blue eyes are visible, and the blue feather of a hat is visible behind. This is the play's premier at the Maxim Gorki Theater.
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This poster is black with a cartoon depiction of the legs of a person wearing cropped black pants and sneakers, with ankles bound together by a yellow contraption. Near the top left is a barred window with yellow light. The title is in yellow at top with the remaining text in white on left and right. Poster advertises for a comedy titled "The Dock Brief", by John Mortimer, to be performed at the Landestheater Halle.
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This poster depicts a black and white, high-contrast photograph of two pairs of legs, the back in jeans and tennis shoes and the fore in knee socks. The title of the performance in red stamped across, with remaining text at bottom in white on black. This poster advertises for the ballet "Portraits", in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, put on by the Deutsche State Opera in Berlin.
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This poster is composed of a gray textured background with a black opening in center depicting an abstract, red hot shooting star. On the bottom of the poster is a black border with white text giving the title of the play, "The Plow and the Star," in black text. On the top is the theater, Maxim Gorki, and the author, Sean O'Casey.
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This poster is red with black type. There is a black and white depiction in center of a gaunt male with dark hair in front of an urban background with black border. The poster advertises for a play titled "The Process" by Peter Weiss based on Franz Kafka's novel, to be performed at the Volkstheater Rostock.
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This poster is blue with a white lace border. It depicts a princess with red pigtails on top of a stack of pink mattresses with a white pea at the bottom. The text is in black script inscribed on the mattresses. This poster promotes a children's musical version of "The Princess and the Pea" by Friedrich Schmidt-Behrens.
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Poster is aqua with two dimensional depiction of a white book with black wolf on back cover with red lasso on tail and a yellow duck on the front cover with a blue flag. Title of play in multi colored letters at bottom. Poster advertises for "Peter and the Wolf" and "The Emperor's New Clothes", to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in cooperation with the Theater der Freundschaft.
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Poster is khaki background with black sihouette of a dancing waiter holding up a pot on one hand. Black outline medieval script text at top advertises for a "culinary comedy" titled "An Invented Feeding" ["fressen" is used in connection with animals only]. Written by Friedel Wangenheim and directed by Wolfganang Struck, performed at the Theater im Palast.