East German Poster Database

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• Maxim Gorki / Kinder der Sonne / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  A large black face that is resting on its hands dominates this poster. The features are outlined in thin white lines. The face seems to have been painted in a wooden board. The text is in black letters along the bottom of the poster. The title is in red.

• Kippenberg / von Gabriele Bigott nach dem Roman von Dieter Noll / Regie: Peter Schroth, Peter Kleinert; Ausstattung: Helga Leue; Musik: Joachim Haberecht / Theater im Palast

  This poster is in landscape format. It is displayed on the open pages of a spiral-bound office calendar. Each day has entries for appointments, some of these are crossed out. A column on the right hand side of the calendar lists phone numbers. In the center of the poster is the vague outline of a greenish gray face.

• Die Verurteilung des Lukullus / Oper in 12 Akten von Bertolt Brecht and Paul Dessau / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

  This poster is white with a bright blue edge around it. The text is in black letters in the top left corner. The other three corners of the poster have a large letter “L” that frames two branches of laurel, a couple of cherries and a knife and fork respectively. In the middle of the poster is a black sword with a blade that is covered in blood.

• Judith: Trauerspiel: Rolf Hochhuth, Inszenierung: Hanns Anselm, Perten; Ausstattung: Christian Gatjen- Volkstheater Rostock- DDR Erstauffuhrung.

  This poster shows a black and white photograph of a young dark-haired woman in a white blouse. The background is black; text at the top of the poster is in white letters and in black letters across the bottom. This poster advertises the tragedy play by Rolf Hochhuth entitled "Judith".

• Tragische Dichtung von Federico Garcia Lorca/Yerma/DDR-Erstaufführung Regie: Winkelgrund Bühne: Heidenreich/Mit Paetzold, Albrecht, Leipert, Kreißig, Weißenborn, Becker, Hürrig, Puls u.a./Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  Poster is white with black texdt and title spray-painted in black in center. Border in red. Advertises for the tragedy "Yerma" from Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Winkelgrund.

• Johannes R. Becher/Winterschlacht/Eine deutsche Tragödie/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is white with partial black border. Depicts black and white portrait of a helmeted soldier, with line reaching from portrait to border. A rainbow is at right and an eye drawin in black. Text in black top and bottom at right. Advertises for "Winter Battle: A German Tragedy" from Johannes R. Becher.

• Staatsschauspiel Dresden- Hebbel: Die Nibelungen- Ein deutsches Trauerspiel

  This poster's background is a sepia cloudscape, with a darker WWII German helmet floating in center. Red wings have been painted on either side of the helmet. The text is in black at the top and bottom left. This poster advertises for Hebbel's "The Nibelungen [a mythical race of dwarves]: A German Tragedy".

• Hamlet: Shakespeare- Müller- Leipziger Schauspiel

  This poster is mainly white with black text, with the bottom-right corner torn to reveal an inverse color scheme. It advertises for "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, directed by Müller.

• Hamlet: William Shakespeare- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is predominantly red, with a depiction of bald human head, with eyes outlined in black in manner similar to a bandit mask. The face is traced vertically down the center in red. The background has intersecting red and black lines with various words, names, and phrases. The title is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of "Hamlet" by Shakespeare.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Eine tragische Komödie con Friedrich Dürrenmatt/Der Besuch der alten Dame

  Poster is white with black border and black text at bottom. Depicts a black and white painting of a nude female (headless) torso with feathered wings instead of arms. Advertises for the tragedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "The Visit from Old Woman".

• Alfonso Sastre: Fantastische Tragödie von der Zigeunerin Celestina…oder Geschichte von Liebe und Zauber- samt einiger Zitate aus der berühmten Tragikomödie von Calisto und Melibea, DDR-Erstaufführung: Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt Schauspielhaus..

  This poster depicts two white abstract figures in center surrounded by radiant red and orange light. The poster background depicts various caricatured, evil-looking faces and skulls in brown-gray outlined in black, looking toward the two white figures. The text is in handwritten black script at bottom. This poster advertises for a tragedy from Alfonso Sastre titled "Celestina", a tale of love and magic about a Romani woman. this was the play's premiere in the DDR.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Paris. Paris- Bulgakow

  This poster is blue with a black border. It depicts a black passenger ship with lit windows and a red man who has been stabbed n the chest, with an anthropomorphized death behind him. The title in yellow is at the top with author in blue below. This poster advertises for a play titled Paris. Paris possibly by Michail Bulgakow.

• 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.