East German Poster Database

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  This poster shows a graffiti scene from the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie. The left hand is reaching through a crack with barbed wire to hand a flower to a tied up right hand.
• Berlin '89/Photo by Gustav Brauer
  Poster features large photographic print by Gustav Brauer; depicts an individual with a hammer atop a ladder, positioned to bhip away at a heavily defaced segment of the wall.
• Charlie Taste Point
  This poster shows a rabbit in front of an anti-tank barrier with the Berlin Wall in the background.
• Berlin '89/Photo by Gustav Brauer
  Poster features large photgraphic print by Gustav Brauer; depicts a segment of the wall at night with a several large holes, one roughly remedied by a mesh panel.
• The Wall Live in Berlin Roger Waters & Special Guests
  This poster has yellow text on a black and grey background advertising for a concert in Potsdamer Platz. In the bottom left corner is a red emblem of a hand holding a hammer.
• Berlin '89/Photo by Gustav Brauer
  Poster features large photographic print by Gustav Brauer; depicts an individual at night staring toward a segment of the wall punctuated by gaping holes. Brandenburg Gate is visibile behind.
• Auf Blöcke keine Böcke
  This poster portrays a man wearing a sandwich board sign stating, "Frieden Schaffen ohne Waffen," balancing on a barbed wire fence. The emblem of the Green Party appears in the bottom right corner of the poster.
• Berlin
  Poster is a double-sided chronological series of Berlin wallmaps that can be folded into a brochure. One side is multilingual, the other English (content differs). Poster shows Berlin through time with emphasis on the Wall, and includes locations of contemporary Wall memorials. Red and black design theme.
• Held der Republik
  This poster has a portrait of Erich Honecker, the leader of the DDR until 1989. It refers to him as the "hero of the Republic." The poster is framed by barbed wire.
• Berlin: Das Tor zu Welt
  Title reads "Berlin: Gateway to the world", and features a large photo of the Brandenburg Gate.
• Westlich unserer Grenzen gibt es eine ungeheure Welle der Kriminalität und…
  The poster is bisected by a film strip showing scenes of a city and drug addicts. The text is in red.
• Die Mauer
  Features photos and multilingual text describing the graffiti on the Berlin Wall. Text is taken from the Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie (giving approximate date)
• A Hole in the Wall Berlin Novermber 1989
  This poster shows a photograph of a crack in the Berlin Wall and the landscape beyond. This is an advertisement for an exhibition by M. Maurice Hawkesworth.
• Die Mauer in Berlin 9. November 1989
  This poster features seven photos of graffiti art by Ziebarth, Bourguignon, and Kablau on the Berlin wall. Poster was probably for an exhibition to be held on the stated date of 9 November 1989.
• Berlin Potsdamer Platz 1987-1990-2000-2006-2008
  This poster has 5 photographs which depict the evolution of Potsdamer Platz following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
• 1818 Karl 1883 Marx 1983: Unsere Ideen sind Wirklichkeit
  Features a photo of children in Vietnam running along a coastline holding Vietnamese flags. Title reads "our ideas are reality", with caption describing "happy children in a socialist country".
• Graffiti Export $
  This poster shows a painting of a stretch of graffiti faces on the Berlin Wall.
• Gedenkstätten: Berlin, Haupstadt der DDR
  Poster is doublesided. Front shows photo of a woman surrounded by others holding torches in of an obscured memorial. Back shows seven memorial sites of interest with photos and multilingual captions. Also includes a map of Berlin with site locations.
• Berlin am Potsdamer Platz
  This poster shows a still standing segment of the Berlin Wall and a large red building, presumably a museum, on stilts in a photograph by Wolfgang Schalvien.
• Genosse Ernst Thälmann
  Large black and white portrait of Ernst Thälmann superimposed on newspaper text detailing his achievements.
• Graffiti-Mauer-Kunst Metropole Berlin
  This poster depicts graffiti by Jan Kablau on a section of the Berlin Wall. The photograph is by Christian Bourguignon.
• Kampfgenosse
  Poster consists of close-up photo of a unnamed Soviet leader with raised right fist followed by three soldiers. Title reads "comrade in arms" and includes a small red star with above with white hammer and sickle inside. Otherwise poster is in black and white.
• Krieg und Leichen - die letzte Hoffnung der Reichen
  This poster depicts a hyena wearing a top hat and a medal around its neck. The animal is in an aggressive pose over the bodies of dead soldiers. Black and white.
• Friedrich Engels in Berlin
  Poster documents Engels' two trips to Berlin through text, photographs, and period documents. Also gives an overview of Engels' significance in socialist theory.
• Glücklich und geborgen
  This poster depicts two youths swinging from the chinstrap of a large helmet with flowers around them.