East German Poster Database

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• Landestheater Halle/im Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt- Von Mai bis September- Theseus: Oper von Händel/ Der eifersüchtige Liebhaber: Komische Oper von Grétry/ Triumph der Empfindsamkeit: Grille von Goethe/ Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern: Stück von Hacks

  This poster is light gray with black text. It depicts a building in classic Greek style with a large arch and steps beneath. Underneath the arch is a gold on brown design, with text in the remaining white space. The text alternates between Gothic script and print. This poster advertises for performances from May through September in the Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt, including the opera "Theseus" from Händel, "The Jealous Lover", a comic opera from Grétry, "The Triumph of Sensibility" from Goethe, and "The Yearly Market Fest to Plunder" from Peter Hacks.

• Antigone, Sophokles »Antigone« - Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam

  This poster is black with large white print for play title and smaller print underneath for the remaining text. It depicts a black and white photograph of an aged, partially destroyed Greek statue of Antigone at bottom shadowed in red. This poster advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.

• Amphitryon: Komödie von Peter Hacks

  This poster is green with a shell-like mirror image in the center done in black like a blockprint. The text is in the negative space between the shell, and above and below the shell in black. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amphitryon" from Peter Hacks, directed by Friedo Solter and lists the actors and their parts at bottom. Finally, the border of the poster is in red.

• Aphrodite und der Sexische Krieg/Ein Musical nach Motiven von Aristophanes' LYSISTRATE, von Jutta Eberhardt-Leister und Wolfgang Tilgner, Musk: Gerhard Kneifel/Uraufführung: Leipziger Theater-Musikalische Komödie

  This poster has coral background with black and white print. It depicts an armored Greek soldier chasing a nude woman with a cherubim pinching his nose as he does so (in Greek style). The text is in white at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the musical "Aphrodite and the Sexy Wars," and was the play's premiere.

• Ariadne auf Naxos: Richard Strauss, Zum 100. Geburtstag von Richard Strauss- In der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin

  The poster is white with a mustard-colored border. It depicts (in black and white) on the left bust of Richard Strauss. The text at right is in mustard, blue-green, and black. this poster advertises for a performance of "Adrianne from Naxos" in celebration of Strauss' 100th birthday.

• Antigone: Tragödie, Sophokles- Landestheater Dessau

  This poster is grayscale, and depicts a man in a Greek costume blindfolded and holding a broken reed. There are hands that protrude from the right of the poster also holding broken reeds. The text is in white on black and in black top left. It advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.

• Agrippina: Oper von Georg Friedrich Handel- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  this poster is composed of a blue-green background and four beige-gold columns in the foreground. Animated beige-gold sculptures look out from behind the columns in the midst of different activities (i.e., kissing, conversing, exchanging an item, etc.). The text is at top in black and at the right in red. This poster advertises for Händel's opera "Agrippina".

• Amphitryon: Ein Lustspiel nach Moliere von Heinrich v. Kleist- Im Maxim Gorki Theater

  This poster is blue-gray and depicts the hatched outline of a male torso minus arms. The head seemingly detached floats above with no outside outline, and yellow snakes emerging from the top like hair. A white border with same blue-gray text is at the top and bottom, with title of play in white superimposed on image ("O" forms a wreath). This advertises for a performance of Amphitryon from Molière and Heinrich von Kleist.

• Antigonä: Hölderlin nach Sophokles- Landestheater Halle, Neues theater

  This poster is white with yellow polka dots. There are black painted lines that run abstractly throughout in no discernable pattern. The title text is white on red, with director and stage director in white on black. This poster advertises for a performance of the tragedy of Antigone, directed by Alexander Stillmark.

• Amphitryon: Komödie in 3 Akten von Armin Stolper- Landes Theater Halle

  This poster is red with an off-white vertical segment depicting Zeus in purple with a red toga about to fall through a hole in the floor of the sky toward earth, where more purple inhabitants point upward in anticipation. The text is in black script at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for the comedy "Amphitryon".

• Mozart: Apollo & Hyazinth- Im Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt

  This poster features a painted profile of a man in blue, green and red. The man has long hair and is wearing a headband. He is looking at a bird, also painted in profile, mostly black with a band of red feathers at its neck. The text is in black at the top and top right. This poster advertises for Mozart's opera "Apollo and Hyacinth".

• Offenbach: Orpheus in der Unterwelt- Theater der Stadt Cottbus

  This poster is blue with a green and pink elaborate frame featuring a caricatured portrait of Shakespeare stabbing a nude Greek statue with a violin bow. The text is above and below. This poster advertises for the French opera "Orpheus in the Underword" by Jacques Offenbach.

• Orfeüs: Pantomim-Ensemble

  This poster is black with small indiscernible black and white photo in center. The title of play is at the top in white script with the remaining text in white at the bottom left. This poster advertises for the pantomimed play "Orpheus", directed by Seidemann.

• C. W. Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike

  This poster is black, depicting night sky. In the foreground in white with black lines is a depiction of two ghostly figures, one male one female, with the latter seemingly pulling back the former. The ground is littered with papers and trash. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for the opera "Orpheus and Eurydice".

• DDR-Erstaufführung- Lyrische Tragödie von George Enescu: Oedipus

  This poster is white with an abstract black sketch portrait of a man upside down. The text is in black, partially smeared, at bottom. It advertises a performance of George Enescu's lyric adaptation of Oedipus.

• Pericles by William Shakespeare- DDR Erstaufführung, Deutsches Nationatheater Weimar

  This poster is black with a brightly colored abstract depiction of a woman in pink and yellow standing on a coast with Greek ship in background. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's Pericles. It was the play's premiere in the DDR.

• Die Perser: Mattias Braun/Aischylos

  This poster is off-white with black text. It depicts rings of black stick-figure soldiers, beginning with primitive spears and shields, progressing to bow and arrow, rifle, cannon, tank, and finally one missile at bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the Greek tragedy "The Persian" by Aeschylus, adapted by Mattias Braun.