East German Poster Database

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• 25 Jahre/Puppentheater Berlin
  Poster is black with rows of cartoon depictions of various puppet characters in profile, including king, queen, chicken, dogg, clown, wizard, jester, criminal, etc. Top left is the Puppentheater Berlin insignia with white text. Poster celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Puppentheater Berlin. Note: Tag on back with poster information.
• Victor Contreras/Der Falschspieler/Volksbühne
  Poster is mostly grayish beige with white near bottom. Depicts what could be construed as the black sihouette of a person's head from behind, with a large white patch and black smeared all over. In center is a black figure "102" of two men in athelietic outifts stretching. Human eye visible to the right. Text in black script. Advertises for a performance of VIctor Contrera's "The False Player".
• Carl Maria von Weber/Der Freischütz/Romantische Oper/Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam/Musikalische Leitung: G. Lienicke/Regie: P Kartaloff a. G./Ausstattung: K.P.M. Wulff
  Poster features an abstract depiction of what appear to be two bare tress, one darker and one lighter, with the latter twisted around the former to the the point that it snapped in half. Outlines are emphaiszed with red and black lines. Text in black top left and bottom, with Theater in red bottom left. Advertises for a performance of "The Marksman" by Carl Maria von Weber.
• Schalls Fragen Dritter Klagen Brecht Antworten Abend/Karl-Heinz Nehring, Klavier/Theater im Palast
  Poster is beige with black text. Advertises for a performance of Schall's "Ask, Lament, Answer" by Karl-Heinz Nehring on the piano.
• Tibor Déry/Fiktiver Report über ein Amerikanisches Pop-Festival/Collage der Volksbühne Berlin/Tibor Déry Fiktiver Report über ein Amerikanisches Pop-Festival/Karusseit ž Barthel ž Montag ž Beyer ž Rothert ž Schmitt ž Gysi ž Acker ž Hübchen ž Stegemann ž T
  Poster is white with large red "v" shape top center. Majority of text in black type-writer font. Title diagonal across center from bottom left to top right. Author top right and theater information bottom center. Remaining text in box bottom right. Advertises for a performance of Tibor Déry's "Fictitious Report about an American Pop Festival".
• Feuer Marianne!/im Staatlichen Puppentheater Neubrandenburg
  Poster depicts (in collage) a sky with a hot air balloon in center. Balloon is shaped like a distorted human head in profile. A woman in Renaissance painting style sits on the edge of the balloon, while a Native American woman with a basekt hangs from the side by a green snake, letting flowers drop from her basket. Smaller balloon with the word "Hawaii" across center is visible to the left. Text floats out of an open envelope bottom right in red and black. Advertises for a performance of "Fire Marianne!".
• Fra Diavolo/Daniel François Esprit Auber/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is mostly red. Depicts two men in working-class outfits (overalls,jackets) raising their hats in unison as if in a performance. Red theater curtain behind. Text in white script at top and print at bottom. Advertises for the opera "Fra Diavolo" [Brother Devil] from Daniel François Esprit Auber.
• HUAC/Der Fall Eisler/Nach den Protokollen des Ausschusses für unamerikanische Tätigkeit von GUDRUN und HANS BUNGE Uraufführung/Es spielen Heinrich Buttchereit Wolfgang Holz Erhard Köster Hans-Peter Minetti Wolfram Handel Siegried Kilian Ingrid Leipold Pet
  Poster depicts black and white portrait of Hanns Eisler speaking at a microphone with raised pointed finger. Title in black at top with remaining text at bottom. Advertises for a play titled "The Case of Eisler", based on the minutes of the Committee for Un-American Activities. Performed by the Berliner Ensemble.
• Walter Jens/Die Friedensfrau/DDR-Erstaufführung Bühnen der Stadt Gera
  Poster is khaki with black outline painting of a heart cutting through a knife blade in center. Text in black top left and bottom right, with theater information top right in black on yellow. Advertises for a performance of "The Peace Woman" from Walter Jens.
• Marieluise Fleißer/Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt/Berliner Ensemble
  Poster is black with red type. Advertises for a performance of "Purgatory in Ingol", from Marieluise Fleißer and performed by the Berliner Ensemble.
• 29. und 30. April 6./7./13. und 14. Mai 3. und 4. Juni '88/Frankfurter Abend No. 3/Kleist Theater Frankfurt/Oder, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße
  Poster background is a black and gray photograph whose subject is indistinguishable with black border left and right. Various black and white urban photos collaged at right. Four abstract shapes in green, blue, yellow and red randomly superimposed toward center. Text in white top left and white on black at bottom. Advertises for a "Frankfurter Evening".
• Der Fiedler auf dem Dach/(Fiddler on the Roof)/Komische Oper Berlin
  Poster is a mostly green. Painted depiction of a fiddler in colorful attire and red hat standing atop a roof with city visible below. Two orbs (presumably moon and stars) visible as well as several stars and two birds. Text in white and black scrimpt, top and bottom. Advertises for the "comic opera" "Fiddler on the Roof" to be performed in Berlin.
• Leipziger Opernhaus/Ludwig van Beethoven/Fidelio
  Poster is navy with white sliver coming down from top right toward center, gradually fading into background color. Text in aqua and white, top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of the opera "Fidelio" by Beethoven.
• Der Fahrer und die Köchin/von Albert Wendt/im [Deutsches Theater] Kleine Komödie
  Poster is gray with black and white line drawing in center of a man and a woman looking at each other from opposite ends of a white rectangle. Scattered around the poster are black line drawings of various animals, signs, architectural features, etc. with accompanying black text. Title in black at top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of "The Driver and the Cook" from Albert Wendt.
• Fidelio/Ludwig van Beethoven/Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt
  Poster is blue gradient with dark blue text at top. Depicts a broken concrete wall. Remianing text in gray at bottom Advertises for a performance of the opera "Fidelio" by Beethoven.
• Die Fontäne von Bachtschissarai/Ballett in vier Akten/Musik von Boris Assafiew/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  Poster features faded sepia portrait of a woman's face with hair pulled back. Below are three sepia photos outlined in black, one of a graveyard, one of a battlefield covered in corpses, and one of a different graveyard. Text in black top left and in black outline below and top right. Advertises for a performance of the ballet "The Fountain of Bachtschissarai" with music by Boris Assafiew.
• Kleist-Theater/Der Freischütz/Romantische Oper von Carl Maria von Weber
  Poster is black with a blue flowered garland depicted at top, decorated with tiny white skulls and a blue ribbon. Text at top-center in gray. Advertises for a performance of the romantic opera "The Marksman" by Carl Maria von Weber.
• Die Feuerrote Blume/Regie: Volkskünstler der R.S.F.S.R. Wladimir Kusmin
  Poster is navy with cartoon depiction of a red Viking ship with name of theater printed on sail and a girl in blue kerchief inside. Ship appears to be floating through clouds, with an owl and sun outisde the ship. Title of play is printed in different colored letters above and below picture (blue, white red, gold) with remaining text at bottom in white. Advertises for a performance of "The Fire-red Flower", directed by Vladimir Kusmin.
• Goethe Faust/erster Teil/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
  Poster is mostly covered with an abstract painting of what is presumably hell, with several humanoid figures in red and gray brush strokes who apear in agony. Figures blend together and into random flame-like brush strokes. Title in black at top. Advertises for a performance of the first part of Goethe's "Faust".
• Die falsche Münze von Maxim Gorki/Kammerspiele/Regie: Ulrich Engelmann/Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Jochen Finke/Musik: Reines Bredemeyer
  Poster is green with large Deutsches Theater symbol in red on yellow at left. Text in yello script at right and bottom left. Advertises for a performance of "The False [Counterfeit] Coin", by Maxim Gorki.
• Was rechts zu wissen/ich könnt was lehrer/rn und zu bekehren/eder Gut noch Geld/rrlichkeit der Welt/Hund so länger leben/nich der Magie ergeb/Geistes Kraft und Mu/heimniß werde kund/saurem Schweiß/was ich nicht weiß/e was die Welt/zusammenh/kraft un/Worte
  Poster is largely a compilation of medieval meteoric/astronomic imagery pritned in black and gray. Top right imagery appears to have been ripped away to reveal a red layer with black printed text (sentences are incomplete as we are unable to see the entire layer). Possibly from the play. Title and details of performance at bottom with play title in 3D red letters outlined in black and remaining text in black on red. Advertises for a performance of "Faust" by Goethe.
• Der Frieden/Komödie von Peter Hacks nach Aristophanes/HansžOttožTheater Potsdam
  Poster is off-white with a background an orange-scalephotograph of what appears to be an architectural framework. Superimposed in the center is a red abstract painting of a partially nude woman in a tutu with two individuals clinging to her legs, which are also depicted as nude women. Individual at right appears to be a clown. Text at top and bottom in red-brown. Advertises for a comedy from Peter Hacks titled "The Peace".
• Fidelio/Ludwig van Beethoven/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster is gray with black text top right. Left to bottom of poster in black are printed raised hands (6). Advertises for the opera "Fidelio" by Beethoven.
• Al fresco für Musiktheater von Robert Hanell/Fiesta/nach dem Roman „Fiesta in Mozares” von Prudencio de Pereda/Uraufführung/Deutches Nationaltheater Weimar
  Poster is off-white with black border. Prominently features abstract painting of a man with his ands behind his back and head down, with another indivdual behind to the left with fist raised (face obscured) and a woman to the right who is leaned over and covering her face with her hand. Advertises for a muscial titled "Fiesta" from Robert Hanell based on the book "Fiesta in Mozares" by Prudencio de Pereda. Play's premiere.
• Oper von Richard Wagner/Theater der Stadt Cottbus/Der fliegende Holländer
  Poster is black with a large circle in center depicting a ship with mountainous region behind in blue and black. Text in gray at top and bottom hugging circle advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman". Note: Poster has tag on back with information regarding artist, theater, etc. from the "Hundred Best Posters of 1980".