East German Poster Database

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• Antigone, Sophokles »Antigone« - Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam
  This poster is black with large white print for play title and smaller print underneath for the remaining text. It depicts a black and white photograph of an aged, partially destroyed Greek statue of Antigone at bottom shadowed in red. This poster advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.
• Amphitryon: Komödie von Peter Hacks
  This poster is green with a shell-like mirror image in the center done in black like a blockprint. The text is in the negative space between the shell, and above and below the shell in black. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amphitryon" from Peter Hacks, directed by Friedo Solter and lists the actors and their parts at bottom. Finally, the border of the poster is in red.
• Amphitryon/Musikalische Komödie von Rainer Kunad/Libretto von Ingo Zimmermann/Uraufführung/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is white with black text at center top. Depicts two halves of a nude female form, left in color, right in silhouette, with the negative space between them forming the shape of a candlestick. Poster advertises for the musical comedy "Amphitryon", from Rainer Kunda. Play's premiere.
• Aphrodite und der Sexische Krieg/Ein Musical nach Motiven von Aristophanes' LYSISTRATE, von Jutta Eberhardt-Leister und Wolfgang Tilgner, Musk: Gerhard Kneifel/Uraufführung: Leipziger Theater-Musikalische Komödie
  This poster has coral background with black and white print. It depicts an armored Greek soldier chasing a nude woman with a cherubim pinching his nose as he does so (in Greek style). The text is in white at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the musical "Aphrodite and the Sexy Wars," and was the play's premiere.
• Antigone: Tragödie, Sophokles- Landestheater Dessau
  This poster is grayscale, and depicts a man in a Greek costume blindfolded and holding a broken reed. There are hands that protrude from the right of the poster also holding broken reeds. The text is in white on black and in black top left. It advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.
• Außerhalb von Schuld von Uwe Saeger
  This poster is white, and depicts a yellow table with black and white figures (many in hats) gathered around the bottom, and three figures at the top: one with possible a patch over his right eye and one who appears to be sulking and facing away from the other two. The text is in black outlined in yellow at the top. It advertises for a play titled "Outside of Debt", from Uwe Saeger.
• Johannes Felsenstein Präsentiert: Alexis Zorba, Buch: Joseph Stein, Musik: John Kander, Gesangstexte: Fred Ebb
  This poster is a black and white block print of Greek rural life. It advertises for a musical titled "Alexis Zorba" from Joseph Stein, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis and music by John Kander. This was the musical's premiere in the DDR. the poster is in two pieces.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Pericles by William Shakespeare- DDR Erstaufführung, Deutsches Nationatheater Weimar
  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.
• XXXIII. Parkfestspeile- Sanssouci 17.-26. Juni 1988
  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.
• Die Perser: Mattias Braun/Aischylos
  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.
• Alexander Gelman- Protokoll einer Sitzung
  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.
• 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.
• Dreidamia- Oper von Georg Friedrich Händel
  This poster is red with ancient Greek painting at bottom in red and black showing two individuals facing each other and surrounded by multiple geometric designs. The poster advertises for "Deidamia", an opera by Georg Friedrich Händel, to be performed at the Landestheater Halle.
• Ein neuer Sommernachtstraum
  The poster shows a red grid with a graph drawn out. Inside the graph is an angle with two circles. Together they form the shape of a heart. The graph paper is torn away at the top right corner to reveal a red circles and leaves behind. Poster advertises for "A New Summer Night's Dream", a dance performance by Bernd Köllinger and Georg Katzer, to be performed at the Volkstheater Rostock.
• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Slawomir Mrozek: Emigranten
  This poster is a muddled yellow, black and white. It features abstract art like that of a woodblock print, of two individuals sitting back to back and looking over their shoulders at each other on a shared table with a dog between them. The poster advertises for a play by Slawomir Mrozek titled The Émigrés, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.
• Erpressüng
  This poster has a white background. The title is in red. Above the title is the drawn image of a man looking out towards the viewer. Below the title is the man's hand holding a gun. This film is British.
• Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
  This poster is divided into four unequal horizontal parts with the largest at the top and the smallest at the bottom. Each part features a headshot of the same man and woman but their faces move away from each other as the divisions become smaller. This poster is black and white. This film is West German.
• DS 70 Fährt nicht aus
  This poster is green tinted with the title at the top in yellow text. At the center of the film is a black and white cut out still from the film of a couple holding hands and facing away from the viewer so that they are seen in profile. They are holding hands and the male is also holding a small pistol. In the background is large machinery. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Mein Haus auf den grünen Hügeln
  In the center of this poster is a drawing of a ram. Sitting on top of the ram is a boy wearing a brown shirt and pants. In his belt is an oversize red pen. The ram is standing on two hills and in between the hills is a small house. This film is Soviet. Located in box DDR5.