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1. Mai 1972

Poster commemorates the May Day celebration from 1972. The poster has a white background with black letters. It shows a large red flower, with a ribbon which looks like the East German flag tied around its stem. Oversize.

1. Mai 1985

This poster commemorates VE day, May 8th, 1945 as well as the May Day celebration. This is a two part poster. The top half, PL-0683 shows a large abstract red flower, or bouquet of flowers, which has bloomed out of the bottom half of the poster. Oversize.

8. Mai 1945

This poster commemorates VE day, May 8th, 1945 as well as the May Day celebration. This is a two part poster. The bottom half, PL-0682, shows a black and white image of soldiers sitting on tanks throwing their helmets and hats into the air. In the center there is a red stem of a large flower which blooms on the top half of the poster, PL-0683. Oversize.

Karl Marx-Jahr 1983

Poster is large sepia portrait of Karl Marx superimposed on the photographic image of a crowd. Top left reads "His name will live through the centuries, and also his work". Poster celebrates the centenary of Marx's death.

Leipziger Strasse 3: Kammermusik im Hause Mendelssohn-Bartholdy- Theater im Palast

This poster is in landscape format. It shows two open windows that consist of green dots on a beige background. The text is in black ink along the bottom. The title of the concert is in German black-letter script.

Für - und Widersprüche

Poster depicts a man's legs in mid wide-stride with tools hanging from his belt and a tape measurer in a pocket on his fore leg. Hand-drawn ruler creates border at bottom. Background is blue-yellow-orange gradient. Title in hand-written black text at top left. Advertises for "For - and Contradictions".

Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin: Parsifal- Richard Wagner

This poster is green with black text top and bottom. The title of the opera is in white handwritten script at the center. It advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "Parsifal".

Peters Jugend II. Teil

This poster is a monochromatic yellow and black illustration of Peter the Great as a young man, dressed as a Christian Tartar, with an elaborate beaded and jeweled tunic and fur hat; he holds an ax upright in his right hand and a carpenter's plane in the other. This film is an East German and Soviet coproduction.

Peters Jugend I. Teil

This poster is a mixed media illustration of a large coiled snake; it has the head of actor Dmitri Zolotukhin as Peter the Great, and the head of Tamara Makarova as the Czarina for the raised tail. The entire poster is a monochromatic light green and black. The photographs are This film is an East German and Soviet coproduction.

Phoenix

This poster is a black silhouette of a man's head and upper chest on an overall grid of black on white. There is a chain around his neck with a tag hanging from it that says "Phoenix." The back of his head has a red brainwave print out that says "programm" on it; there are dashed lines extending from the graph down his head. There is a black outline of a vise grip clamped to his head; large numbers printed beneath it with dashed lines coming from them correspond to the dashed lines of the brain wave chart. This film is East German.

Sprung ins Dunkel

This poster is a charcoal drawing of a man, his form suggested only by the black outline of his shoulders and left arm. His face is defined, as is his wide brimmed hat. There is a set of two blocks of four white rectangles, which look like windows in the night. The man's body is white, as are the areas of the background not charcoaled in. This film is Czechoslovakian.

Die gefangene Schar

This poster is an aerial illustration of six men in red, in a rough circle. They are surrounded by vertical black rectangles of increasing size. There is a black square outline that joins the rectangles near their tops, forming a fence. The background is white. This film is Bulgarian.

Sonjas Rapport

This illustrated poster is the black silhouette of a woman, from the shoulders up. She has short curly hair, and wears headphones, which have a short antenna stick up from each earphone. The cord trails down across her front, and is grey with white highlights. The bottom part of her face is given a light flesh color below the eyes, and her lips are glossy red. In the background is a desert landscape of brown hills and orange, yellow, and blue sky. This film is East German. The poster is highly acidic.

1900

This poster is a colored pencil illustration of a pitchfork, pointing downward. Only a few inches of the wooden shaft are visible above the collar. Red and purple flames are coming off to the right of shaft and along the top of the tines. It is on a beige background. This film is an Italian, French, and West German co-production.

Mexiko in Flammen

This poster is a black illustration of a South American petroglyph of a bird. It is black, with a red eye, and flames around the back of its head. There are black splatters around and on the bird. This film is a Soviet, Mexican, and Italian co-production.

Die Mädchen vom Wilkohof

This black and white poster is a series of four square photonegatives of the bust, in profile, of a young girl. Within the hair and face is the ghostly image of a bare tree. In the last image, the profile faces to the right; the rest are to the left. She wears a checked top and a necklace. This film is Polish.

Die eiserne Festung

This poster is a drawn image of a green landscape with trees visible on the horizon line. There is a large yellow triangle in the center of the poster. The triangle is bordered in black. The film is Vietnamese.

Das Schlangenei

This poster is a black and white photograph turned sideways of a young woman laying listlessly in a chair in front of an unlit fireplace. There is an image of a poster with a young man's photograph on it next to the photograph of the woman. The film is an American-West German coproduction.

Zwei Zeilen, kleingedruckt

This poster is a black and white photograph of a man in a woolen cap. The photograph has been cut into square pieces, each numbered in the upper left corner. Most of the pieces of the photograph are missing, leaving only a white outline of the man's image. The film is East German.

Die 100 Besten Plakate '87

This poster shows a bird of white rectangles, creating a mosaic image of an eyeball. The letters of "A" and "B" are situated around the eye in various rectangles. It is for an exhibition featuring the 100 best posters from 1987 in Erfurt and Berlin (September 28 - November 6, 1988; September 29 - October 23, 1988).

East German Poster Database