East German Poster Database

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• DDR Erstaufführung Theater Greifswald Regie Dietrich Musik O.W.Vogel/Ein Freund der Wahrheit/Komödie von William Wycherley in der Adaptation von Anna Elisabeth Wiede
  Poster is white with blue anchor center top. Anchor has a buoy heart hanging over the top with a ship in the center. Text in black and red at bottom. Poster advertises for a comedy titled "A Friend of the Truth" by William Wycherley.
• Adolf Glassbrenner/Ein Heiratsantrag in der Niedermallstrasse/oder Der preussische Kinderfruend
  Poster is pink depicting abstact, toothed shapes interposed with numbers and German nationalist imagery. Text in black medieval script at top and bottom. Poster advertises for a play titled "A Marriage Proposal in the Niedermallstrasse or The Prussian Child's Friend", by Adolf Glassbrenner, to be performed at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
• Das Elfte Gebot/Lajos MesterházyŸDeutsche Erstauffühurung
  Poster depicts four high contrast portraits in black and white, one woman and three men. Across the middle is a red bar with the title of the performance printed in white. At the bottom is a black border with white text announcing the theater. Poster advertises for a play titled "The Eleventh Bid". Play's premiere at the Maxim Gorki Theater.
• Ein Sommernachtstraum Maxim Gorki Theater Inszenierung Thomas Langhoff Shakespeare
  Poster is green with white and red depiction in center of Bottom as a donkey empracing a nude woman. Text in white on all sides. Advertises for a performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to be performed at the Maxi Gorki Theater with staging by Thomas Langhoff.
• Wolfgang Amadeaus Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  Poster is blue with white text. Advertises for the comic opera
• Ein Sommernachtstraum
  Poster is black with white abstract outline of a donkey in profile wearing a crown. Text in white bottom right. Poster advertises for a ballet performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Kleist Theater.
• Ein Sommernachts Traum oder Der Traum von Asgard/Ballet nach William Shakespeare von Inge Berg-Peters und Wolfgang Ranke Musik: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Reinhard Lakony, Günter Schimm Choreographie: Inge Berg-Peters Ausstattung: Theo Hug, Ute Krajewsk
  Poster is black with outline of donkey in blue gradient. Head of doneky and ears can be seen as a woman in ballet shoes. Bottom is filled with white stars. Text in white at top. Poster advertises for a ballet performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream or The Dream of Asgard", with choreography by Inge Berg-Peters. This is the play's premiere.
• Uraufführung Emotion Ballett von Halmut Neumann Peter Scheibe Musik: Simone Danailowa
  Poster is mostly white with black spraypainting of the "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo, with a red "x" drawn between the two hands and red arrows coming from either. Title of ballet in black script with remaindent title in black all caps top and bottom. Advertises for a ballet by Helmust Neumann and Peter Scheibe titled "Emotion" to be performed at the Landes Theater Halle.
• Einzug ins Schloss Komödie von Rolf Schneider
  Poster is white with blue border. Depicts a town of white buildings with red roofs at bottom on a blue brick hill, with a type of pine tree growing on either side. Text in black at top. Advertises for a comedy titled "Collection in the Castle", from Rolf Schneider, to be performed at the Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt.
• Einer Flog über das Kuckucksnest Ein Stück in Zwei Akten von Dale Wasserman Nach dem Roman von Ken Kesey
  Poster is white with black text at top. Depicts two blue-green wings that have apparently been ripped off a bird, with blood visible. Advertises for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", from Dale Wasserman, to be performed at the Kleist Theater.
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Poster is white with three blue arches covering almost entire length of poster. Inside is a painting depicting a man in a turban with a sword chasing an individual with a ladder and another individual playing what looks like a ukelele. Poster advertises for the opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio" by Mozart, to be performed at the Opernhaus Leipzig.
• Einie Nacht in Venedig Operette von Johann Strauss
  Poster is black with purple, black and white sihoutette of a man in a gondala with crescent moon overhead. Text in black on white below. Advertises for an operette titled "A Night in Venice", by Johann Strauss, to be performed at the Landes Theater Halle.
• Arthur Kopit's Das Ende der Welt Mit Anschliessender Diskussion
  Poster is divided in half length-wise. Right is covered in blue dots, right is covered in red dots. Each side depicts a man's eye with thick eyebrows. Black border and text in thick black type. Advertises for a small play titled "The End of the World", directed by Alexander Stillmark with an discussion following.
• Shakespeare Ein Sommernachtstraum
  Poster is black with white text. In center is an abstract black and white portrait of a female face. Poster advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to be performed at the Deutschen Theater.
• Dale Wasserman nach dem Roman von Ken Kesey Regie: Rolf Winkelgrund …einer Flog über das Kuckucksnest
  Poster is black and divided into 2 x 3 grid. Each grid has a line outline of a head in profile, except for middle right, where the profile is flipped and colored with blue gradient. Text in gray and white script overlapping. Advertises for a performance of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", directed by Dale Wasserman and performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater.
• Entdeckungen/BauŸEntdeckungten/Marstall Kammerbühne/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin/Dem XI. Parteitag der SED Gewidmet…
  Poster background is blue with red lines forming a simple maze and white arrows of different styles pointing the way. Black and white geomenteric design in center behind what appears to be a red door frame. Title at top in white, red-shadowed text on white background reads "Discoveries" with subtitle underneath "Architectural Discoveries". Text in white script scattered over the poster lists different plays with directors. Poster advertises an event in celebration of the eleventh anniversary of the SED. Poster is in two parts.
• Gelenkstücke Uraufführung Reige Autor Jo Fabian Example No. P
  Poster background is pattern of gray dots on white background, with white symbols and letters superimposed. Pink line cuts through vertically at top center to middle of poster. Text in pink and gray. Advertises for a play titled "Example No. P" written and directed by Jo Fabian, to be performed at the Landes Theater Dessau.
• Dario Fo Der DIEB, der nicht zu Schaden kam Dario fo der Nackte und der Mann im Frack…
  Poster is divided in half vertically. Left depicts black sihouette with green bolt-like shape encompassing a black telephone. Advertises for a play titled "The Thief Who Never Came to Grief". Right shows red silhouette with black dotted shadow. Advertises for play titled "The Naked and the Man in the Evening Dress". Both star Dario Fo.
• Ei! Kennt ihr noch das alte Lied? Deutsche Balladen von Goetche, Schiller, Heine und Uhland gesungen und gesprochen von Cox Habbema Eberhard Esche Herwart Grosse
  Poster is burnt sepia with black text and patterned black border and black ivy dividers. Title reads "Well! Do you know the old song? German ballads from Goethe, Schiller, Heine, and Uhland sung and spoken by Cox Habbema, Eberhard Esche, and Herwart Grosse in Deutschen Theater Berlin."
• Klaus Piontek in E.T.A. Hoffman der Muski-Feind Theater im Palast
  Poster is white with oval depiction of a man dressed in 18th century costume holding a ballerina in his right hand. A black cat sits to his left and three people look out from background. Text in print top left/bottom right and script around the picture. Advertises for a play titled "The Music Fiend" by E.T.A. Hoffman.
• Drei Schwestern/Schauspiel von Anton Tschechow -
  Poster is olive with high contrast image in black and green of a woman in an undistinguishable landscape. Text in black at bottom. Poster advertises for a play titled "Three Sisters" by Anton Tschechow, to be performed at the Theater der Stadt Cottbus.
• Landesbühnen Sachsen Felsenbühne Rathen Die Drei Musketiere Ein Spektakel mit Musik nach Alexandre Dumas
  Poster is mostly yellow. Depicts a cartoon muskateer in yellow, black, and red in wide stance bottom center with three smaller muskateers evenly spaced along bottom. Larger sports a red, blue, and yellow hat; the plumes of which form the rest of the background. Title in black top left corner. Advertises for the play "The Three Muskateers".
• Daphne Oper von Richard Strauss
  Poster depicts a large tree in olive with the profile of a woman in yellow embedded facing left. Poster advertises for the opera "Daphne" by Richard Strauss, to be performed at Das Meininger Theater.
• Der Drache Märchenkomödie von Jewgeni Schwarz
  Poster is a black and white photograph of a woman embracing a fully armored knight. Title of the play "The Dragon" in red, top left, with remaining text in white underneath. Play is a "Fairy-tale comedy" by Jewgeni Schwarz.
• „Der Drache“ zum 500. Mal
  Poster features multiple hand-sketched dragons with accompanying handwritten descriptions on khaki background. Bottom of poster is white with black text and advertizes for a play titled "The Dragon".