East German Poster Database

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• Der Kaufmann von Venedig / von William Shakespeare / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  This poster shows a painting of a man wearing a Doge's hat and cloak who is seated. He's looking at an outstretched hand that reaches into the poster from the left and if offering money. Another hand holding a short dagger is visible above. The colors are various brown and beige tones. The title is in pink letters across the top.

• Konig Heinrich der Funfte / Shakespeare / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  The main feature of this poster is a black line drawing of a king's head. His mouth is open and he seems to be making a speech. His left hand is raised making a victory sign. The background is white; the text is in reddish brown letters across the top of the poster.

• Maxim Gorki / Kinder der Sonne / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  A large black face that is resting on its hands dominates this poster. The features are outlined in thin white lines. The face seems to have been painted in a wooden board. The text is in black letters along the bottom of the poster. The title is in red.

• Shakespeare: Leben und Sterben Koenig Johanns- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  This poster has a beige brown background with the text printed in black across the top. It shows a seated figure who is looking down on his folded hands in his lap with his left shoulder is bleeding. This poster advertises for Shakespeare's work "The Life and Death of King John."

• Friedrich Schiller/Wallenstein

  Poster is white with black and red depiction of a monster with a horse's body, apelike head, and forked tongue. Appears to have had a crown knocked off his head. Similar to those found on crests. Advertises for "Wallenstein" from Friedrich Schiller.

• Staatschauspiel Dresden/Warten auf Godotr/von Samuel Beckett/DDR-Erstaufführung

  Poster is white with black handwritten text mostly top left corner. Depicts two individuals who resemble early ethnocentric depictions of Native Americans, especially in hair and decorative jewelry though they wear Western costume. Advertises for the DDR premiere of "Waiting for Godot".

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Sieben Wünsche/Schauspeil von Armin Müller/Kefir für Durst, Hirse für den Hunger, ein Lager für die Nacht und dich zu wäarmen eine Frau. Ein Dach für deine Freunde und Adlerschwingen für deinen schönsten Traum.

  Poster is white with black and white woodblock print of a the inside of a house with a couple embrancing, a woman setting a table, and a man walking through the door. A rainbow enters from the window and proceeds through the the right edge of the poster. Text above and below in black diagonal. Advertises for "Seven Wishes", from Armin Müller.

• Deutsch Nationaltheater Weimar Uraufführung/Der Schuster und der Hahn/Ein Spiel von Menschen und Tieren von Armin Stolper

  Poster depicts a shoemaker with hen-like features (tail, legs, wings) playing a guitar. A woman to the left is throwing papers in the air and a man to the right is running away with a bloody axe. Title at bottom with remaining text left vertical. Advertises for "The Shoemaker and the Hen", a "play of men and animals from Armin Stolper". Play's premiere.

• Oper von Gerhard Rosenfeld: Der Mantel nach Nikolai Gogols gleichnamiger Novelle von Gerhard Hartmann- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Uraufführung

  This poster is white with black sketch of an older man looking into his own face, which is about this size of his body, and followed behind by an even larger replication, followed by a larger one, and so forth. The text is in black at the top left with performance title, "The Mantle", in red. This was the premiere of the opera from Gerhard Rosenfeld.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Hayanvadana: Schauspiel von Girish Karnad

  This poster is black with depiction of head of white winged horse looking toward top left. The text is in white caps at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for the play "Hayavadana" from Girish Karnad and was the play's premiere in the DDR.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Die Hypothesen um die Brandstiftung and der Brücke zu Lowetsch am 3. August 1925: von Georgi Mischew

  This poster has beige background with large white space at bottom that appears to have been burned out. A line drawing at right of space depicts a hand holding a lighted match with the match in color. Above are three more similar drawings repeating vertically, but with different sleeves. The text is in black. This poster advertises for a performance titled "The Hypothesis about the Arson and the Bridge to Lowetsch on August 3rd 1925", from Georgi Mischew. This was the play's premere in the GDR.

• 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.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Eine tragische Komödie con Friedrich Dürrenmatt/Der Besuch der alten Dame

  Poster is white with black border and black text at bottom. Depicts a black and white painting of a nude female (headless) torso with feathered wings instead of arms. Advertises for the tragedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "The Visit from Old Woman".

• Coriolanus/Oper von Ján Cikker Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is white with painted depictions of a man in red robe and sandles looking left and sticking his tongue out, clutching a laurel crown in his righthand. To the right of him is another man in a black robe and sandals, carrying a shield painted like a mask with mouth open. Text in black vertical left and bottom. Advertises for the opera "Coriolanus" from Ján Cikker.

• Agrippina: Oper von Georg Friedrich Handel- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  this poster is composed of a blue-green background and four beige-gold columns in the foreground. Animated beige-gold sculptures look out from behind the columns in the midst of different activities (i.e., kissing, conversing, exchanging an item, etc.). The text is at top in black and at the right in red. This poster advertises for Händel's opera "Agrippina".

• DDR-Erstaufführung- Lyrische Tragödie von George Enescu: Oedipus

  This poster is white with an abstract black sketch portrait of a man upside down. The text is in black, partially smeared, at bottom. It advertises a performance of George Enescu's lyric adaptation of Oedipus.

• Patrioten: Friedrich Wolf

  This poster is black with an abstract depiction in center of a woman in a tavern-like setting surrounded by a group of men. A blue, white, and red-striped bar runs diagonal across the top left corner of the depiction. The title of play is in blue on left side, with the remainder of text in white on right. This poster advertises a French play titled "Patriots", by Friedrich Wolf.

• 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.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Slawomir Mrozek: Emigranten

  This poster is a muddled yellow, black and white. It features abstract art like that of a woodblock print, of two individuals sitting back to back and looking over their shoulders at each other on a shared table with a dog between them. The poster advertises for a play by Slawomir Mrozek titled The Émigrés, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.

• A.P. Tschechow Drei Schwestern: Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  This poster is brown with a green border. The center bottom features three pieces of lace, with black and white abstract portraits of three women superimposed on the largest piece. The poster advertises for play by Russain dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov titled "Three Sisters", to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.

• Flegelalter

  This poster is an illustrated caricature of the French actors Fernandel and Jean Gabin. Each has the body of a rooster, and a cock's comb on their heads. Their bodies incorporate several faces, and each bird is extending an arm and shaking the other's hand. The background is ochre. This film is French.

• Namu, der Raubwal

  This poster is a watercolor painting of a killer whale. There are two divers swimming around him. At the top of the poster is a sketch of a small wooden boat that has been upended by a whale, with two people in the air. The water is filled with sharks with gaping jaws, and early depictions of whales. This film is American.

• Das Volk der Schwarzen Berge

  This poster is a drawn image of a man tied to a cross. The man is a silhouette except for his arms and head, which is upside down. There is a black cross on a green field above the man. The film is a Yugoslavian-Soviet collaboration.