East German Poster Database

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• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin/Die Insel Tulipatan/Jacques Offenbach/Die schone Galathee/Franz von Suppe.

  Poster features a colored drawing of two middle aged gentlemen in the basket of an old-fashioned hot air balloon; it is filled with musical instruments; a birdcage and a barrel are attached to the bottom of the basket; text is arranged on banners above and below the balloon; the poster is framed by a red border.

• Die Schöne Helena: Jacques Offenbach- Landestheater Halle

  This poster is black with a gray textured silhouette of a nude woman facing left with hair in a ponytail. The text is vertical on either side in red, white and blue like the French flag. This poster advertises for "The Beautiful Helen" from Jacques Offenbach.

• Operette für Schauspieler- Theater der Stadt Cottbus- Die Schöne Helena: von Peter Hacks, Musik Jacques Offenbach

  This poster is brown with orange in the center with a blue-scale architectural feature. The text is at the top and bottom in white. This poster advertises for "The Beautiful Helen" from Peter Hacks, with the music composed by Jacques Offenbach

• Salon Pitzelberger/Operetteneinakter Offenbach Theater der Stadt Cottbus/Die Verlobung bei der Laterne/

  Poster is blue with figure-8 border; outer border is darker blue and inner border is pink. Text at top and bottom in dark blue on green, with oval in center in purple and black on green banner across center. One either side are stylized portraits of individuals who appear to be singing, depicted in black and green. Advertises for what appear to be two single-act operas, "Salon Pitzelberger" and "The Engagement with the Lantern", from Offenbach.

• Jacques Offenbach: La Périchole- Metropol

  This poster is red with a depiction of a blonde woman in a large hoop skirt playing the guitar. A man with ornate sash peeks out from beneath her skirt, seemingly behind bars. The title is in yellow script at the top with the theater's information below in yellow. This poster advertises for the opera "La Périchole" by Jacques Offenbach

• Pariser Leben- Metropol

  This poster is black with a cartoon depiction in center of a man in a tuxedo and top hat, whose eyes resemble a woman's chest. The title is at top in white script, with the theater information below in gray. This poster advertises for the opera "Parisian Life" by Jacques Offenbach.

• Die schön Helena- Metropol

  This poster is fuchsia with two stylized wedding bands intertwined to form an infinity symbol. A red heart is above left and two crossed green branches below. The title at the top is in dark purple script, with the theater information at bottom in "white" with dark purple shadowing. This poster advertises for the opera "The Beautiful Helen", by Jacques Offenbach.

• Orpheus in der Unterwelt- Metropol

  This poster's background is sepia with text at top and bottom in black (title shadowed in "white"). It depicts a Jacques Offenbach, the composer, climbing a ladder, with a laurel wreath on his head made of red white and blue flowers and ribbon. This poster advertises for "Orpheus in the Underworld".

• Hoffmann's Erzählungen: phantastiche Oper von Jacques Offenbach- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is white with a black border and text in white on black at the bottom left. It depicts a man in profile, presumably Hoffmann, with handwritten and largely illegible text surrounding him and line drawings of scenes from the play, partially obscured by the text. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hoffmann's Tales" with the music by Jacques Offenbach.

• Hoffmann's Erzählungen/phantastiche Oper Jacques Offenbach

  This poster's background is predominantly light blue, with darker blue splotches painted on top. It features a sketched snail-shell spiral in black, with various red pyramids pointing downward and appearing to pierce the spiral's surface. The text is in black below. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hoffmann's Tales" from Jacques Offenbach.

• Jacques Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzählungen- Phantastische Oper in Fünf Akten- Landestheater Halle

  This poster's background is mainly comprised of pink dots on white, with line drawings of individuals in the midst of various daily activities (certain elements, e.g. dress, flowers, buildings highlighted in pink or white). Superimposed on all of this is a large black and white portrait of E.T.A. Hoffmann. The title is at the top in handwritten black script on white, with the remaining text in black print underneath. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hoffmann's Tales" from Jacques Offenbach.

• Jacques Offenbach/Ritter/Blaubart/Opéra bouffe/Kleist Theater

  Poster is white with a black line drawing depicting a stone structure built to look like it has four portruding fingers, the middle one of which is sticking straight up and ringed with yellow objects (alternately a phallic symbol). An orchid lies at the bottom of the structure, seemngly crushed underneath. Text in black along left side and at top. Advertises for Jacques Offenbach's opera "Ritter Blaubart".

• 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.

• Opéra Féerie von Jacques Offenbach: Die Reise auf den Mond

  This poster depicts a spherical object in the midst of white speckled blue background meant to simulate space. The sphere (representing the moon) is filled with a collage of various culture symbols with white text going around the left edge giving the title of the opera. A gray space shuttle touches it from the bottom left corner. This poster advertises for an opera titled "The Journey to the Moon", from Jacques Offenbach's Opera Extravaganza.

• Le Papillon/Der Schmetterling: Ballet von Jacques Offenbach

  This poster is black with a gray-white blurred depiction of a dancer on a stage that has moved from left to right. The title is in green and white at the bottom. It advertises for the French ballet "The Butterfly" by Jacques Offenbach. It is the ballet's premiere in the DDR.