East German Poster Database

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• Trassenbauer- Gerd Eggers

  This poster is white with a childishly drawn rainbow at bottom at two blue clouds above. The title in black at quotes the poem "Trassenbauer" (track builders) by Gerd Eggers: "One day grass and field will grow over the tracks, and with young trees the tracks will come home to the forest. Our work, when it is good, is silent, invisible".

• Wir gratülieren!

  Poster is watercolor drawing of three children; outside two are holding a banner with "30" written in flowers, whild middle child is holding a large DDR insignia. Title in red cursive at top reads "We congratulate [you]!" Yellow border. Poster is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the DDR.

• Soviet Space Capsule

  This poster depicts a Soviet space vehicle being trailed by a swooping band composed of the Soviet and DDR flags.

• Freiden und Sozialismus

  This poster is yellow with a large red "40" with the symbol for the DDR in the middle of the "0". The text reads, "Peace and Socialism", and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the DDR.

• DDR 40

  This poster is a photograph of a woman waving a flag as part of a rally. The words DDR 40 are to advertise the 40th anniversary of the DDR.

• DDR 40

  This poster is a painting of a group of DDR and Soviet Union flags waving on flagpoles. This is to advertise the 40th anniversary of the DDR.

• Unser Beitrag zum 40. Jahrestag der DDR

  This poster celebrates the 40th year of the DDR and shows a multitude of emblems from political groups in the DDR.

• Interkosmos '78 Gemeinsamer Kosmosflug Sojus-31

  This poster is a portrait of two cosmonauts, Waleri Bykowski and Sigmund Jähn, who manned the Soyuz 31 mission.

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  This poster is a large black and white photo of DDR soldier and a young boy, who he put over the Wall (at the time a low barbed-wire fence) back into East Germany where the rest of his family was located.

• „New York Times” vom 18.6.1953…

  The majority of the poster is a black and white photo of two Germans throwing rocks at Soviet tanks. The text below is adapted from various responses to the 1953 uprising. The first three selections praise the German people for their courage and spirit. The fourth is a statement by the Justice Minister some two weeks after, assuring DDR citizens that no one will be punished for protesting or striking, but only those who committed serious crimes.

• In der „DDR” wird das Vorbild für die Zukunft aller Deutschen geschaffen…

  This poster features a large overhead photograph of soldiers in formation in black and white. Superimposed in red, the title reads "In the DDR, Germans will create a model for the future, and their lives will be forever shaped by it." The quote is by Leonid Iljitsch Breschnew, 1969.

• Unbreakable friendship

  This poster contained within folder CS-0182 and is part of a series of posters that all deal with the 10th World Festival that took place in 1973 in Berlin. All of the text on this poster is in English except for the text on the poster images which contains some Russian. This poster is about the relationship between the DDR and the Soviet Union. Pictures show Russians and Germans participating in the festival together. Box 5.

• Leipzig '83 VII. Turn- und Sportfest IX. Kinder- und Jugendspartakiade der DDR

  Four figures of different colors pose in positions as if they are stretching. The poster is an advertisement for a sporting event that took place July 25-31, 1983.

• Sportfest- Sonderziehung

  Four figures of different colors pose in positions as if they are stretching. The poster is an advertisement for a sporting event that took place in March 1982. The awards for winning included cash prizes.