East German Poster Database

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• Live in Berlin

  Poster advertises a 1990 concert in Berlin for the benefit of the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. Red and black brick background with an abstract design. Concert to be held on Saturday, July 21st at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz.

• The Wall

  This poster advertises a 1990 concert in Berlin for the benefit of the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. There is a red and black brick background with an abstract human design.

• The Wall

  A poster with a stylized red brick background. The poster promotes a Roger Waters concert at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The goal of the concert was to raise funds for the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief.

• M. Jones Band- Mit der LP auf Tour: Herz Schlag

  This poster has a white background with a black grid. In large red and black letters it says M. Jones Band. There is a picture of what looks like an album cover, which depicts a metronome with a heart on the tip, hence the name “Herz Schlag” or “Heart Beat”.

• Der Kontrabass / von Patrick Suskind / Im Foyer des Berliner Ensemble am Bertolt-Brecht-Platz / Nachtprogramm / Sie werden verwickelt in die Lebensgeschichte eines Kontrabassisten.

  In the center of this poster is the black and white photograph of a bass player. It is autographed by the actor Peter Bause. The text is predominantly in white letters against a dark background.

• Koto Ensemble Japan / Leiter: Yoshio Hiratsuka / Koto Shakuhachi / Kunstler-Agentur der DDR.

  This poster is in landscape format. It is dark blue, almost black. In the center it has white Japanese characters underneath a bright pink rectangle. On the left 'Koto” is written vertically in a bright green rectangle with the word 'Japan' in pale blue letters underneath. The right hand side features the pale blue outline of a flute and a string instrument.

• Komische Oper Berlin / Spielzeit 1975/76 / Neuinszenierungen: Schwarze Vogel; Venezianisches Abenteuer; Ballettabend: Feuervogel und Wundersame Liebe / Wiederaufnahmen: Die Hochzeit des Figaro; Der Troubadour; Ein Maskenball; Die Macht des Schicksals; Rit

  The top half of this poster shows a rough drawing of a young couple facing each other. She is seated and is wearing a long blue dress; he's wearing mustard colored trousers and is kneeling in front of her and seems to be imploring her. The bottom part of the poster lists the program for the 1975/76 season.

• Liebeslieder / Tanzerische Kontraste III / Kompositionen von Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms; Choreographien von Harald Wandtke, Konstantin

  The background of this poster is light gray, the text is in black. In the center are two yin and yang shapes in pink, light red and dark red that complement each other to form a circle.

• Jugendprojekt 2: Entwicklungen / Paul Gratzik : Lisa / Alfred Matusche : Prognose / Probebuhne / Berliner Ensemble / Institut fur Schauspielregie / Kunsthochschule Berlin / Berliner Ensemble.

  This poster is bright yellow with red text.

• Leonore / Ludwig van Beethoven / Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam / DDR-Erstauffuhrung.

  This poster has a black and white portrait of Beethoven in the top half. The text is in black letters on a white background. A thin black line frames the poster.

• 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.

• Jazz in der Kammer Nr. 100: DT Kammerspiele.

  This poster is black with white footprints and prints of shoe soles that become smaller and smaller in the distance and lead to the venue where the jazz concert takes place. The text is in white letters in the top right corner of the poster; “Nr.100” is in bright red large letters and numbers.

• Johann Adolf Hasse (25.3.1699-16.12.1783)- Hasse Tage der Staatsoper Dresden - 12.-30.Dez. 1983: Ausstellung in der Sachsischen Landesbibliothek Dresden

  This poster is in landscape format; the center shows a color portrait of the composer Johann Adolf Hasse by Balthasar Denner (1740). The text is in brown letters on white background on both sides of the portrait. This poster advertises a "Hasse day of music" event to celebrate his death.

• Weiße Rose/Udo Zimmerman/Szenen für zwei Sänger und fünfzehn Instrumentalisten/DDR-Ring-Erstaufführung Premiere am 28.2.86/Inszenierung: Detlef Rogge/Musikalische Leitung: Manfred Hänsel

  Poster is a grayscale portrait of a woman with left half of her face shadowed. Text at bottom in black. Advertises for "White Rose", from Udo Zimmerman, "scenes for two singers and fifteen instrumentalists". Premiere in DDR.

• Das Berliner Ensemble präsentiert im Foyer des Theaters jeweils 22.00 Uhr ein/Nachtprogramm/Wußten Sie schon? Wissen Sie noch? Schlager Lieder Geschichten Anekdoten aus der DDR/mit Carmen M. Antoni Peter Bause Klaus Hecke Hans-Peter Reinecke Jaecki Schwar

  Poster is white with black text and silhouetted depictions at bottom left and fright of two individuals holding theater masks with inverse facial expressions. Poster advertises for a Night Program from the Berliner Ensemble titled "Do You Still Remember? Did You Know?", a compilation of hits, songs, stories, and anectdotes from the DDR.

• Buero Berliner Festtage und Kuenstler-Agentur der DDR- No Kyogen Theater Japan: Leitung Hideo Kanze- Deutsches Theater - 17./18./19. Juni 1989 - 19.00 Uhr- Karten an der Kasse des Deutschen Theaters und dem Theaterkassen im Palasthotel

  This poster is black with a white circular geometric line pattern in center, with rays emanating from central white point, a circumference outline in red, and border of hatched lines outside, resembling an open hand fan. The text is in gray at the top and bottom with the title in yellow at the top center. This poster advertises for "No" from the Kyogen Theater in Japan. Conducted by Hideo Kanze.

• Berliner Ensemble/Stephan Hermlin Abend Die Ästhetik des Friedens/Prosa Lyrik Gespräche/Zum 70. Geburtstag des Dichters/Peter Weiss Abend/Die Ästhetik des Widerstands/Notizen Arbeitsprotokolle Gespräche/am Bertolt-Brecht-Platz

  Poster is beige with black text. Advertises for performances of Stephan Hermin's "The Aesthetic of Peace" and Peter Weiss' "The Aesthetic of Resistance", both from the Berliner Ensemble.

• Heiner Müller/Wolokolamsker/Chaussee I-V/I Russiche Eröffnung II Wald bei Moskau III Das Duell IV Kentauren V Der Findling/"Das neue Leben muß anders werden" (FDJ-Lieder der 50er Jahre)/Musik Rainer Böhm/Regie Christoph Schroth Bühne Lothar Scharsich Kost

  Poster is gray with black text, except for red pointed segment at bottom. Advertises for a performance of Heiner Müller's "Wolokolamsker Chaussee" parts I - V, in celebration of the FDJ's 50th anniversary. Music by Rainer Böhm, directed by Christoph Schroth.

• Wiederöffnung Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/5. Oktober 1975/Festkonzert der Weimarischen Staatskapelle Johann Wolfgang Goethe "Faust" I. Teil Johann Goethe "Faust" II. Teil Johannes R. Becher "Winterschlacht" Christoph Willibald Gluck "Iphigenie in Aul

  Poster is white with text repeated diagonally in black in each corner, clockwise: "Wiedereröffnung/Deutsches/Nationaltheater/Weimar". In top left center in small sepia print is description and date. Advertises for a "Fest Concert" of Weimar's City, featuring performances of "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, "Winter Battle" by Johannes R. Becher, "Iphigenie in Aulis", by Christoph WIllibald Gluck, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

• Berliner Ensemble/Volker Braun Allgemeine Erwartung Abend 2/Teil 1. Gedichte Geschichten von Hinze und Kunze Christine Gloger Dieter Knaup Arno Wyzniewski/2. Allgemeine Erwartung Musik Ralf Hoyer Aktion für zwei Klaviere und einen Schauspieler Ekkehard Sc

  Poster is red with black text. Advertises for performances of pieces from Volker Braun from the Berliner Ensemble. Part one features "Poems and Stories from Hinze and Kunze" starring Christing Glogger, Dieter Knaup and Arno Wyzniewski. Part two features "General Expectations", an action for two flutes and one actor, featuring Ekkehard Schall, Brigitte Hoyer, Thomas Just, and Ralf Hoyer.

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  Poster is white with black and white photos of varying individuals, most with mouths open in appearing states of anguish, collaged together in pyramidal shape. Superimposed in center is a photo [?] contrasted in green, orange, and black and outlined in red dashes. Visual content is indecipherable, appears to be a person, possibly Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. No other information is available.

• Großes internationales Operettenkonzert zum 100. Geburtstag von Emmerich Kálmán: 14. und 15. Oktober 1982, 19.00 Uhr Mitwirkende: Solisten des Staatlichen Operettentheaters Moskau des Karlin-Theaters Prag, der Nová Scéna Bratislava, des Staatlichen Operett

  This poster is white with a line drawing at the top of a woman in an intricately decorated hat holding a fan. The text beneath is in navy and green. This poster advertises for a "large international Opera Concert" in celebration of the 100th birthday of Emmerich Kálmán at the Metropol.

• 18. August-3. September 1989/Der Palast der Republik - Ein Klingendes Haus/Musiksommer im Palast

  Poster is lavender with pink border. Text in black at top, bottom, and right border. Inside depicts a group of six birds in black and white, with variously colored musical staffs superimposed on bodies. Advertises for a "Music Summer" in the Palast der Republik.

• Parade des Soldatenliedes/präsentiert vom Erich-Weinert-Ensemble der NVA sowie bekannten Solisten, Gruppen und Ensembles am 30. September 1987 um 29.00 Uhr Karten ab 5. 9. 1987 an den Kassen des PdR, Spreeufer Großer Saal

  Poster is white with line of trumpets growing smaller from bottom left to right. Title in blue at top, with black text underneath. Advertises for a "Parade of Soldier Songs", presented by the Erich-Weinert Ensemble.

• Palast der Republik ž 9.-11. November 1989 ž Karten ab 21 Oktober 1989/Classics/Ines Paulke Anett Kölpin I.C. Karussell Die Zöllner Arnold Fritzsch Marina Hess Andreas Bicking Hinter Glas u.a./Die spektakuläre Begegnung von Sinfonik und Rock!/Hallesche Ph

  Poster is white and divided horizontally into three segments. Middle segment depicts black silhouette of a violinist in antiquated wig, with rainbow behind in black, green, red, and yellows. Text at top and bottom. Advertises for performances of music classics from the Hallesche Philharmonic, from Olaf Koch.