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Joachim Knauth: Der Maulheld: Komödie nach dem Miles Gloriosus des Titus Maccus Plautus- Theater Der Freundschaft
This poster features a black border around a grey center. In the center there is an open mouth with red lips, containing the title “Der Maulheld” (The Mouth Hero) in large gray letters. The play is by Joachim Knauth, based on the play Miles Gloriosus by Titus Macchus Plautus. -
Das Spiel vom Kaspar, von der Konigin Tausendschon und der noch tausendmal schoneren Prinzessin Schneewittchen / von Franz Fuhmann / Urauffuhrung / Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam.
An abstract painting of a clown's head dominates this poster. It features a bright red forehead and nose, large blue eyes and mouth. One of the eyes is surrounded by a wide band of yellow, one of the cheeks is bright red. The background is gray; the text is in dark blue letters across the top. -
Kasimir und Karoline / Odon von Horvath / Maxim Gorki Theater.
The main feature of this colorful poster is a woman in a red dress holding a beer mug who seems to be suspended in the air. On the right hand side is a man with a mustache wearing a blue suit who is reading a unicycle. Underneath the woman is a huge pair of scissors that are cutting through a painting of an idyllic landscape of palm trees and a lake with mountains and a huge red setting sun in the background. On the left a woman's hand reaches into the picture holding an ice cream cone. -
Krach in Chiozza / eine Komodie von Carlo Goldoni / Regie: Strassburger ; Hering; Buhne: Heidenreich / Volksbuhne.
This poster shows a drawing of three women in long dresses walking along briskly. They appear to be agitated. The title is in red letters across the top. The name of the venue is in bright green letters across the bottom. The poster has a dark green frame. -
Goldoni / Der Klatsch / Komodie / Volksbuhne / I pettegolezzi delle donne / Ubersetzung: Naumann.
The playwright's name is in large white letters on a purple triangle at the top. Along the left hand side of the poster are drawings of a headless statue of a man holding his own head in his hand, a ball of string, a hand, a mouth, a shell, a hand, a lute player and a pyramid. These objects seem to get swallowed up in the vortex of a tornado. A black arrow extends from the vortex into a large ear that is drawn on the right hand side of the poster. -
Die Kronung der Poppea / von Claudio Monteverdi / Komische Oper Berlin
This poster shows a dark-haired woman in a low-cut red dress sitting in front of a man who is about to put a gold crown on her head. The male figure is wearing a red cloak and sandals. Three daggers on either side of the couple reach into the picture. The text is at the top in black letters against a beige background. -
Die listigen Frauen, oder Die Wilderer / Grosse Operette von Jacques Offenbach / Guido Masanetz / Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam. Steckbrief: Gesucht wird: Rastamagnac, Wilddieb und Schmuggler / Kennzeichen: Nase: gewohnlich; Stirn: gewohnlich; Mund: gewohnli
The top half of this poster shows a black and white photo of a woman. A black beard and a large black hat disguise her as a man. The text, in predominantly black letters, occupies the poster's bottom half. The title is in red; the background is off-white with a narrow black edge. -
Das Land Bum-Bum: der lustige Musikant / Oper fur Kinder und Erwachsene von Rainer Kirsch & Georg Katzer / Komische Oper / Urauffuhrung
The main feature of this poster is a color drawing of a man's head with huge ears. He's holding a green trumpet. The text is in multiple colors in the top third of the poster. The background is white with thin diagonal black lines. The poster has a red and white striped frame. -
Die Lokomotive im Spargelgebiet: Komodie von Claus Hammel- Inszenierung: Hanns Anselm Perten ; Ausstattung: Falk von Wangelin- Volkstheater Rostock, Urauffuhrung
This poster has a pale blue background. It shows a canning jar full of white asparagus with a locomotive on top. The text is from labels glued or attached to the jar. -
Lysistrate: Komodie von Aristoophanes - Theater der Stadt Cottbus.
This poster is black with white text across the top. At the bottom is an outline of a female body; three blue and turquoise colored doves are shown flying toward the top right hand corner of the poster. -
Die Irre von Chaillot/Jean Giraudoux/DDR Erstauffuhrung/Inszenierung:Hanns Anselm Perten; Ausstattung:Falk v. Wangelin/Volkstheater Rostock.
Poster is white with black and grey text; in the center is a colorful woman's head composed of flowers with a hat that also is made of flowers; below the head are the upside-down legs and partial torsos of two men in black and grey striped trousers and black jackets. -
Dario Fo/Zufälliger Tod eines Anarchisten/Kammerspiele
Poster is black with 3 by 3 grid of silhouettes on sky background, numbered in upper left corner 1-9 from left to right. Bottom two squares are empty. Title at top in red with remaining text in white top and botom. Advertises for "Dario Fo", "The random death of an Anarchist". -
Der Wett-Lauf zwischen Hase + Igel/Theater Senftenberg/von P. Ensikat
Poster is a depiction of a rabbit in a red suit and red top hat, holding what appears to be an egg in his right hand. One either side sit two hedgehogs, one at left with an apple stuck on his quills. Advertises for "The Race Between Hare and Hedgehog", from P. Ensikat. -
Wir, die Endesunterzeichnenden/von A. Gelman
Poster is mostly black, with depiction in center of a train window featuring two men sitting across from each other with hands raised while a third man looks on and behind a fourth speaks with the conductor. Tet in white below. Advertises for "We, the Undersigned" from Alexander Gelman. -
Heinz Drewnick/Wenn Georgie kommt/Uraufführung Staatschauspiel Dresden/Ein komisches Stück
Poster is white with text in black at top and bottom. In center is a depiction of a grassy area with what appears to be a couch covered in grass, with white package tied with black string sitting in center. Package is printed with repeated performance title. Performance title is randomly repeated throughout depiction. Advertises for the comedy "When Georgie Comes", from Heinz Drewniok. -
Kurt Hoffman's Musikalische Räuberpistole: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
This poster is a watercolor in green and pink, with line drawings in black of presumably characters from the performance, including a man resembling Benjamin Franklin a woman with exaggerated lips, a man with horizontal mustache and hair, and a juvenile or short man holding a knife with exaggerated teeth. Two creepy eyes are visible at the bottom. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for a "musical cock-and-bull story" from Kurt Hoffmann titled "The Inn at Spessart", based on the book by Curt Hanno Gutbrod with text by Günther Schwenn and Willy Denmel with music by Franz Grothe. -
Der Nackte Wahnsinn: Komödie von M. Frayn, Regie: P. Sodann- Landestheater Halle
This poster is white with a black border. The lower portion of this poster is a blind on a curtain rod in grayscale, with a depiction of an empty room with open door and door open in the floor. Above this depiction is the title in red and outlined in black. The remaining text is in black handwriting. This poster advertises for comedy "The Naked Madness" from M. Frayn, directed by Peter Sodann. -
Sende störung: Komödie von Károly Szakonyi- im Theater der Stadt Cottbus
This poster is white with an abstract depiction of three individuals whose bodies form a conglomeration of furniture striped in blue and green. The faces are mostly blank, while the left individual is wearing purple sunglasses, the middle has a large red question mark, and right has orange lips with curly hair. All three have antennae emerging from their heads. This poster advertises for the comedy "Send Disorder" from Károly Szakonyi. -
Moliere/Tartuffe/Komödie/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
Poster is orange with black/orange/white speckeled depiction of a clasped hands with ruffled white cuffs and wreath below. Text in black at top. Advertises for Moliere's comedy "Tartuffe". -
Komödie von V.B./Weitersagen/Die Übergangsgesellschaft/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Volker Braun
Poster is white with depiction of cube in center with silhouettes of body parts pressed flat against sides in blue, white, yellow, gray and green. Text above and below in black and red. Advertises for "The Transitional Society". -
Terzett/Musical von Helmut Bez und Jürgen Degenhardt Musik von Gerd Natschinski Regie: Wolfgang Weit Musikalsiche Leitung: Gerd Natschinski/ - Uraufführung - Leipziger Theater Musikalische Komödie
Poster is white with stylized orange image of two nude women embracing a nude man. Title at top in blue outlined in red, with red text beneath. Advertises for the musical comedy "Terzet", from Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt. -
Die [?] behütete Tochter/Ballettkomödie/in der Komischen Oper Berlin
Poster is white with woman in green dress floating in center with large red butterfly wings. Background is green, orange, red and pink dots on white. Text at top and bottom in green crayon script. Advertises for "The Protected Daughter", a comedic ballet. -
Send Störung/Komödie von Karoly Szakonyi/Bühnen der Stadt Gera
Poster is black and white line drawing at bottom of what appears to be a compilation of faces. At top is title in same style, white shadowed in black, with black text underneath. Advertises for the comedy "Send Disturbance" from Karoly Szakonyi. -
Die wundersame Schustersfrau/Oper von Udo Zimmerman/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/nach der Volkskomödie von Federico Garcia Loca
Poster background is light brown with graphite/pastel depiction of four anthropomorphic figures in different colors (red, green, purple) crowding in front of a mannequin (?) whose breasts are falling out of her dress. Text at top at diagonal. Advertises for "The Wonderful Shoemaker's Wife", an opera from Udo Zimmerman based on the folk comedy by Federico Garcia Lorca. -
Vor dem Ruhestand/Eine Komödie von deutscher Seele/Thomas Bernhard/Deutsches Theater
Poster is a Victorian woodblock-print of a woman who is either dead or sleepingwith her head in the lab of a man who appears distraught. Print has been colored in green, red, blue, and yellow, with sky and background left in black and white. Text in black and white on black at top and center left and right. Advertises for "Before Retirement", a "comedy of German Spirit", from Thomas Bernhard.