East German Poster Database

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• Leipziger Schauspiel: Weiter…Weiter…Weiter…? Das Sicherste ist die Veränderung/Theater im Aufbruch/Künstlerische Selbständigkeit/Neues Programm/Offen für's Experimentelle und Bewährte/

  This poster is black with a square frame in center with top and bottom orange and left and right pink. A green egg rests on the bottom of the frame. The title is in white at the top and bottom, while the text at the left and right alternating in white and black on red. This poster advertises for several performances, including "Station" from Holger Teschke, "The Hen" from Stefan Schütz, Shakespeare's "Hamlet", and and Heiner Müller's "Leipziger Song Spectacle", which included singing, dance, music, and scenes.

• Der Brester Frieden/Michail Schatrow/Allein die Titel der Arbeiten Lenins zeigen, wie hart der Kampf um der Brester Frieden war: "Über die revolutionäre Phrase" "Seltsames und Ungeheuerliches" "Wo steckt der Fehler?" "Frieden oder Krieg?"/Leipziger Theate

  Poster background is watermarked black and white photograph of a crowd of people. Title of performance in red, vertical along right, with director name underneath in black and name of theater vertical lower left in black. Remaindant text in black on green background top left, with black line above and below. Red star top left corner. Advertises for a performance of "The Brester Peace", in reference to the Union of Brest, the decison of the Church of Rus' to break with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the authority of the Pope. Text says that "The title alone of Lenin's works shows how hard the struggle was for the Brester Peace", and gives examples of "Of the Revolutionary Phrase", "Strange and Monstrous", "Where is the Mistake?" and "Peace or War?".