East German Poster Database

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• [Untitled]
  Blue poster with white, black, and red abstract figures advertising a ballet performance with music by Gioachino Rossini.
• Don Carlos: Giuseppe Verdi
  This poster is white with a red, stylized portrait of Don Carlos on black background. The title is in black above and below the portrait.
• Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt/Dantons/Tod/Oper von Gottfried von Einem
  Poster is white with painted black border. Depicts abstract red shape in center with blue and red bulls eye. Poster advertises for a opera by Gottfired von Einem.
• La Dama Boba Lope de Vega
  Poster is white with black border. Background is comprised of mostly illegible, handwritten black text guided by horizontal lines. Title at top is wirtten in red and black. Superimposed at bottom left is a red "V" with "Volks Bühne" underneath it.
• Tschechow Drei Schwestern: Im Morgengrauen ist es noch still Wassiljew…
  This poster is sepia photo collage of different women, two of which appear to be holding guns. The poster advertises for play by Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov titled "Three Sisters", to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.
• Jean-Claude Grumberg: Dreyfus- Deutsches Theater Im Bat
  This poster is a 3 x 5 grid of sepia photographs of groups of men of different ages. The text in black at top and bottom. It advertises for a play by Jean-Claude Grumberg titled "Dreyfus", to be performed at the Deutsches Theater im Bat.
• Jewgeni Schwarz: Don Quijote- Städtisches Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt
  This poster is brown with black a silhouette of Don Quixote fighting the windmill. Text in black in the top right.
• Volkstheater Rostock/DDR-Erstaufführung/Wladimir Komratow: Die Dritte Leuchkugel
  This poster is a large black and white photograph of three uniformed soldiers from above. The top left corner is red with white text. This poster advertises for a play by Vladimir Komratov titled "The Three Flames", based on a tale by Vassil Bykau, to be performed at the Volkstheater Rostock. This is the plays premier in the DDR.
• Balletkomödie Don Parasol Komische Oper
  This poster depicts the head of an individual in white trousers and patterned tunic with arms outstretched and head covered by the corners of a napkin or handkerchief top center. The background is a burgundy pattern while the text is in white. It advertises for a comic ballet/opera titled Don Parasol.
• Eberhard Esche: Schauspeiler am Deutschen Theater zu Berlin spricht von der Bühne des Hauses herab
  This poster is white with red border. A black and white line drawing of a bearded man in center covering his eyes, with sheets of paper written on in red at his feet. The poster advertises for a play by Heinrich Heine titled "Germany: A Winter Fairytale", to be performed by actors from the Deutsches Theater.
• Diktatur des Gewissens
  This poster is khaki with a black grid covering most of it. The title of performance in purple top left, as if stamped. The poster shows the thickly drawn head and shoulders of a person made of blocks and splotched with purple spray paint, with letters floating around it. Above hangs a light bulb with a red arrow point to it from the top right corner. Poster advertises for a play by Michail Schatrow titled "Dictatorship of the Conscience", to be performed in the Deutsches Theater.
• Balletabend Don Juan und Faust
  Poster is an abstract depiction of a woman with wild hair whose pyramidal dress forms a mountain with several faces embedded with in. Poster advertises for two ballets, Don Juan and Faust, to be performed ad the Deutsche Staatstsoper Berlin.
• Dantons Tod: Ausstellungen bildender Künstler Lenz Woyzeck…
  This poster is black with white bottom right corner. The text in white and orange is of varying size. It advertises for a visual arts exhibition by Lenz Woyzeck; a concert featuring songs from the French Revolution and political songs from 19th century Germany; and a book project. All will take place in one evening at the Staatschauspiel Dresden.
• Grabbe: Don Juan und Faust
  This poster background is purple and white. It features black and white portraits of actresses playing Don Juan (Angelika Waller) and Faust (Ursula Karusseit) respectively. The poster advertises for these two of Grabbe's plays, to be performed at the Volktheater Bühne.
• Drama von Ibsen
  This poster is a blurred out black and white photo background with a large red "V" center bottom. The text at top outlined in green gives the play title with remaining text in black on white background. The poster advertises a performance of what is probably a play written by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Manfred Karge and Matthias Langhoff.
• Don Carlos
  This poster is black with black and white depiction of a scene from the ply in center (a crowd of people on left with an individual on the ground right and another person standing over them). Superimposed on scene is a large purple "M". The poster advertises for the opera Don Carlos, directed by Schroth, to be performed at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin.
• Der Drache: Jewgenij Schwarz
  This poster features a gray and black gargoyle with eyes and pupils painted on. The gargoyle is surrounded by green and red paint splotches. The poster advertises for a performance of "The Dragon" by Jewgenij Schwarz at the Friedrich-Wolf-Theater in Neustrelitz.
• Carlo Goldoni: Der Diener Zweyer Herren La Guerra (Der Krieg)
  This poster is black and white high contrast photographic portrait depictions of two partially superimposed; the individual on left appears to be screaming in anger, on right individual appears surprised and mid-sentence. The title at top in black printed on a white background. The poster advertises for two plays by Carl Goldoni, "The Two-part Servant Me" and "The War". The poster states that this is the premier of these plays in the DDR.
• Friedrich Schiller: Don Karlos- Infant von Spanien
  This poster is white with black type at top and bottom, with black and white portrait photo of Don Karlos in the bottom left corner. The poster advertises for a drama titled "Don Karlos", by Friedrich Schiller, to be performed in at the Staatschauspiel Dresden.
• Don Pasquale: Gaëtano Donizetti- Komische Oper
  This poster is yellow and depicts a stone block at bottom in black and white with a face inscribed inside. On top stands a woman depicted in red with only legs and dress skirt (which billows to encompass the top of the poster) visible. The poster advertises for a comic opera titled "Don Pasquale", by Gaëtano Donizetti, to be performed in the Theater der Stadt Cottubs.
• Der Doppelte Otto
  This poster features a black and white sketch of the cut out a helmeted soldier from behind. A woman in fishnet stockings is leaning over the edge of the cut-out on the left and a soldier in the same helmet is facing us from the other side of the cut-out on the right. Play title in black Gothic script at top and underlined in red. Poster advertises for a comedy titled "The Double Otto" by Hans Lucke, to be performed in the Deutsches Theater.
• Die Dachdecker Schauspiel von Albert Wendt Im Keller-Theater
  This poster features visual of four people bound together; one individual is in black and white with glasses and a top hat, two are in color and what appears to be watercolor, one is a black and white line drawing. A black and white line-drawn angel hovers above them. Faint handwritten, illegible text forms part of background. The poster advertises for a play titled "The Roof" by Albert Wendt, to be performed in the basement of the Leipziger Theater.
• Drei Schwestern
  This poster is white with high contrast picture printed in black of a woman in a hat and long coat sitting on a chair with suitcase at her feet and parcel behind. The poster advertises for play by Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov titled "Three Sisters", to be performed at the Landes Theater Halle.
• Drei Neue in der Komischen: La Mer Jer/ Mohr von Venedig
  is poster is divided lengthwise into by dark blue-green outer border and lighter inner borders. In left half poster depicts a woman sitting on a man's shoulders with the title "La Mer" and in the left the black silhouette of a knight with the title "Jer Mohr von Venedig". The poster advertises for three new comic strips.
• 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.