East German Poster Database

Items

• 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: 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.

• 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.

• 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.