East German Poster Database

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• 1918 1958 / 40 Jahre Sowjetarmee / 40 Jahre Siegreiche Verteidigung des Socialismus und des Friedens
  The poster is red, dark brown, light brown and white. It depicts two Russian soldiers. The poster commemorates the 40 year anniversary of the founding of the Red Army. The text at the bottom translates roughly to “Forty years of the victorious defense of socialism and freedom.”
• 60 Jahre UdSSR Fur Frieden und Kommunismus
  Poster is white with black letters and a red hammer and sickle. The poster celebrates the 60 year anniversary of the founding of the soviet union in 1922.
• SPD — Eine neue Politik. Eine neue Wirtschaft. Eine neue Moral.
  Poster is white with red "SPD" at top followed by a green three-leafed plant, followed by a red dot. Text in black below reads "A new politic. A new economy. A new moral." Poster likely made for March 1990 elections in East Germany.
• Rechtsanmalt/Linksanwalt
  Poster is black and white portrait of Karl Liebknecht with blue, red, and purple color "spray painted" around the sides. Title in purple at top and red at bottom reads "Lawyer/Leftist Lawyer" (play on words -rechts lit. "right", rechtsanwalt lit. "lawyer", linksanwalt "left lawyer").
• Wählt die Kandidaten der Nationalen Front des demokratischen Deutschland
  Poster is beige with black type. Title reads "Vote for the candidate of the National Front of democratic Germany." Includes a quote by Wilhelm Pieck at top which pleads with Germans to carefully examine the proposed "Five Year Plan," regardless of their political affiliations. Poster created for the October 1950 state elections.
• Trassenbauer- Gerd Eggers
  This poster is white with a childishly drawn rainbow at bottom at two blue clouds above. The title in black at quotes the poem "Trassenbauer" (track builders) by Gerd Eggers: "One day grass and field will grow over the tracks, and with young trees the tracks will come home to the forest. Our work, when it is good, is silent, invisible".
• 1870-1970
  Poster is black and white portrait of Lenin with birth year and year of publication in red top left.
• Jahrhundert des Marxismus-Leninismus
  Poster is white with a globe at top. Continents are blue with USSR in red. Behind the globe are gray spiral. Below is a black silhouette portrait of Lenin pointing to the left. Title in blue reads "Centenary of Marxism-Leninism."
• Arbeiterklasse/Klassearbeiter
  Poster is black and white photo of a DDR worker with hardhat and clenched fist. First part of title in red superimposed across center reads "Working class". Second part in white center bottom reads "Class of Workers".
• Hier spricht die Zivilverteidigung
  Poster is divided into rectangular segments with various textual excerpts, cartoon images, and diagrams. Primary colors are red, orange, yellow, and blue. Poster promotes the German Civil Defense.
• Qualität geht jeden an
  Poster is light blue with cartoon faces of GDR workers crowded at bottom (e.g., nurses, chefs, policemen, aviators, miners, etc.) Title in black at top reads "Quality is everyone's [job]".
• 1. Mai/Vorwärts zum XI. Parteitag der SED
  Poster features a large red numeral "1" with FDGB insignia inscribed inside. Period is a red flower, followed by the word "Mai" in script similar to the numeral but smaller. Bottome text in black promotes the eleventh anniversary of the SED.
• Seine Ideen/unsere Praxis/Friedrich Engels 1820-1895
  Poster is a black and white portrait of Friedrich Engels. Title in black at top and red at bottom reads "His Ideas/Our Practice" with name and birth/death dates in red vertical on right.
• Zur Quatlität gehört die Material-Ökonomie
  Poster is orange and divided into quadrants. Each depicts a cartoon of a worker in green uniform carving a slab of concrete into a sculpture. In the fourth segment, a second worker holds up a sign saying "The Material Economy belongs to quality".
• Ein Staat gestaltend sich zu einer Macht, die Frieden will und Frieden kann erzwingen - Ein Staat, auf aller Wohlergehn bedacht ein Raum für jeden, Großes zu vollbringen.
  Poster is navy with multi-color, different-sized text for title (specific colors are mint, white, and red). Bordered by text promoting the National Holiday of the DDR on October 7th. Title reads "A state is considered a creatively accomplish power that wants peace, and peace can not forced - a country to prosper needs room for everyone.
• Tage der Ungarischen Volksrepublik im Palast der Republik
  Poster is blue with white border. Features a geometric potted flower design in red and green on white. Title in black at top promates a "Hungary Day" from March 31st through April 10th 1988.
• DDR 35/Programm des Volkes
  Poster is blue with white off-white border. Title in digital font on rainbow background with subtitle in black caps on off-white squares reading "Program of the People".
• Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der SR Vietnam
  Poster is white with a Vietnamese flag in center. Title in black above reads "Contemporary art from Vietnam".
• DDR 30
  Poster is portrait of DDR citizenin blue collared shirt raising DDR flag above his head. Title in red and yellow at bottom. Poster celebrates the 30th anniversary of the DDR.
• Die DDR mein Staat
  Poster is a portrait of a DDR citizen in a hardhat with vaguely industrial background. Title in yellow and red at top reads "The DDR my state".
• George Washington/„Mein letzer Wunnsch ist, den Kreig, dieses Wundmal am Körper der Menschheit, von der Erde verschwinden zu sehen.”
  Poster background is the Declaration of Independence, with cartoon portrait of George Washington superimposed in center. Below title in black reads "George Washington/'My last wish is to see war, the scar on the body of humanity, disappear from the Earth'".
• SOLIDARITÄT
  Poster is black with red star at top and white outlined fist beneath. At bottom amid gray barbed wire is title in white reading "SOLIDARITY".
• Weg mit dem NATO-Raketenbeschluß!/STOP
  Poster is yellow with black silhouette at left of a rocket launcher with the front transformed into a gaping, teethed skull. Title in black at top reads "Away with the NATO Rocket Decision!/STOP".
• Wir gratülieren!
  Poster is watercolor drawing of three children; outside two are holding a banner with "30" written in flowers, whild middle child is holding a large DDR insignia. Title in red cursive at top reads "We congratulate [you]!" Yellow border. Poster is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the DDR.
• BROT statt tot/"Für Frieden und Humanismus, gegen die Gefahr eines Kernwaffenkrieges"
  Poster is a large color photgraph of a busher of wheat with small black and white photograph of a mushroom cloud in top right (shape is similar to bushel). Title in white at top reads "Bread instead of dead/'For peace and humanism against the danger of nuclear war'".