East German Poster Database

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• 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.

• Großer Saal/Sondergastspiel/Mariam Makeba/15.-17. Mai 1987…

  Poster features a high contrast portrait of Mariam Makeba on black with arbitrarily placed abstract red shapes surrounding. Text in black caps at bottom. Advertises for a concert by Miriam Makeba

• Tage der Volkskunst/Des Bezirkes Karl-Marx-Stadt/vom 6.-8. April 1979 im Palast der Republik/Erzgebirgische und vogtländische Folklore Puppenspiel ž Kabarett Jugendtanz/Jazz und Lyrik Tanzmusikschau Erzgebirgischer Hutzenabend/Pionierensemble Musikalische

  Poster background is blue-purple, with white text at top. Depicts a print of a ballerina entirely in orange (except for face, which is in orange), whose skirt forms a chicken with head at left. Advertises for a "Day of Folk Art" featuring folklore, puppet plays, cabarets, youth dances, jazz, etc. from the Erzgebirg region.

• Leitvermerk: mit Chopin und Jazz und Beat/Aus: 108 Berlin Ballettogramme/Absender: Komische Oper - Tanztheater Ensemble/Ort: Theater der Freundschaft ž Parkaue ž Zeit: Seihe Speilplan

  Poster is white with black and white depiction of a male dancer in a handband in center. Majority of poster overlaid with dashed/solid grid, brown, white and black border. Text at top and bottom in rectangular segments, in black. Advertises for a ballet program featuring Chopin, jazz, and beat with a comic opera from the Dance Theater Ensemble. Note: Poster has been pasted onto brown material.

• 4. Jazztag Leipzig

  A saxaphone in the shape of the number four that seems to come out of a background of yellow and blue stars. The poster promotes a jazz event that occurred on May 10-13, 1979.