East German Poster Database

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• The Tank: Best Safety Match. A fire? A match. Without tanks - more safety. Safety by negotiating.

  This poster is yellow with a logo of a Soviet tank with red text imposed over the logo.

• Kiss me, Kate: Musical; Samuel & Bella Spessack, Cole Porter- Metropol

  This poster is pink with a black and white depiction in the center of a woman in a bra and skirt holding a man in a suit by the hair, about to smash a vase over his head. The man appears to have a sword driven through his side. The text is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for the musical "Kiss me, Kate".

• Die schön Helena- Metropol

  This poster is fuchsia with two stylized wedding bands intertwined to form an infinity symbol. A red heart is above left and two crossed green branches below. The title at the top is in dark purple script, with the theater information at bottom in "white" with dark purple shadowing. This poster advertises for the opera "The Beautiful Helen", by Jacques Offenbach.

• Die Kinokönigin/Metropol

  This poster is white with a black depiction of a movie projector. Inside the lens is a black and white woodcut of a pointed finger, with a woman with green hair and purple dress seated on top of the pointing finger. The title is in white at the top with theater information below in white. This poster advertises for "The Movie Queen".

• Die Csardasfürstin- Metropol, 108 Berlin, Friedrichstr. 101/102, Kasse 202398

  This poster is dark aqua with a navy circle in center depicting a woman in full dance costume holding a fan in white and yellow. The title is at the top in navy and white, with the theater information in "white" block shadowed in navy at the base of the poster. This poster advertises for "The Csardas Princess" by Emmerich Kálmán (in reference to traditional Hungarian folk dance called Csárdás).

• Szenen einer Ehe

  This poster utilizes the title as the main design element. The "Szenen" is in an illustrated mint green field. Beneath it is a large brown field, in which there is a cutout for the "einer." Across the brown field are the large letters of "EHE." The first "E" is backwards. The letters have a rose pattern on them. The background of the poster is steel blue. This film is Swedish, and this poster is acidic.

• Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

  This poster is white with small silhouette images of two men and a woman in 18th century dress. The central figure, a man, is kneeling and stretching his arms toward the woman on the left, who is reaching back. There are orange flames eminating from the man's head. The film is East German and is about Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

• Beste Plakate des Jahres '78

  This poster has a tan background and shows the letters "B" and "P" written on top of each other in a red font. It is for an exhibition featuring the best posters from 1978 at the TV Tower in Berlin (June 20 - July 25, 1979).

• Beste Plakate '79

  This poster has a white background and has red triangles in each corner. Behind the exhibition title text there is crosshatched black lines. It is for an exhibition featuring the best poster from 1979 in Berlin (August 6 - 30, 1980).

• Präcolumbiansche Goldschätze

  This poster has a blue background with a green border. It shows an illustration of a gold artifact with a face, four arms, and two legs. It is for an exhibition featuring pre-Columbian gold treasures at the Bode Museum in Berlin (October 4 - November 11, 1979).

• 30 Jahre Kunsthochschule Berlin

  This poster has a white background with black and orange text. The information for the exhibit is written in a diagonal slant in the center of the poster. It is for an exhibition featuring work from the last thirty years at the School of Art in Berlin (September 6 - 30, 1977).

• Werner Klemke

  This poster shows a woodcut illustration from a book page. The illustration shows a man embracing a woman in a forest with musicians in the background. It is for an exhibition featuring work by Werner Klemke at the Academy of Art in Berlin (July 3 - August 23, 1987).