East German Poster Database

Items

• Die Fledermaus/Metropol

  Poster is beige with black double border. Depicts a cut-out of a man with a mustasche and clasped hands hung by hooks and strings from above. Behind are three more cut-outs of the same man hung in a similar way; middle cut-out man is wearing green and is holding a leg in fish-net stockings above his right shoulder. Back cut-out man is wearing a striped outfit and is in handcuffs. Title at top in black gothic script. Theater information at bottom in black. Advertises for "The Bat".

• Servus Peter- Metropol

  This poster is hot pink with a depiction of a horned, hoofed, anthropomorphic creature similar to a devil, resting in the cradle of a telephone. The text is in white at the top and the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of "Servus Peter" (Servus meaning Hello in dialect).

• Jacques Offenbach: La Périchole- Metropol

  This poster is red with a depiction of a blonde woman in a large hoop skirt playing the guitar. A man with ornate sash peeks out from beneath her skirt, seemingly behind bars. The title is in yellow script at the top with the theater's information below in yellow. This poster advertises for the opera "La Périchole" by Jacques Offenbach

• Show Boat: Musik Jerome David Kern, Libretto Oscar Hammerstein II- Metropol

  This poster is beige with a black print depiction of two smoke stacks in the top corners and a water wheel in the center, with a man kneeling before a woman inside. The title is inside the wheel in orange with the theater information at bottom in "white" on black.

• Der Zigeunerbaron- Metropol

  This poster is sepia with a red and black block print depiction of a man in a cape riding a horse at full speed (profile, facing left). The title is in black print at the top with theater information below in white. This poster advertises for "The Gypsy Baron" by Johann Strauss II.

• Eine Nacht in Venedig: Johann Strauß- Metropol

  This poster depicts a woman with green eyes in a red mask looking toward the top right corner. Her hair fades out to appear like a cloud, with stars embedded within and a crescent moon above left. The title is in black italics at the top with the theater information below in brown. This poster advertises for "A Night in Venice", from Johann Strauß II.

• Wenn die Wölfe heulen…

  This poster is a cream and black image of a bearded man's face emerging from a mass of tree branches. The man has a stern look upon his face. The film is Yugoslavian.