East German Poster Database

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• Letzten Sommer in Tschulimsk: Drama in zwei Akten von Alexander Wampilow, Regie: Nikolai Uljanow, Lunatscharski-Theater Kaluga- Das Meininger Theater

  This poster has a dark olive green background. The text is arranged across the top in predominantly white letters. The title of the play is printed slightly larger in blue and yellow. In the center of the poster is a large, ornate window frame with a window that opens to the outside. One looks out on a large red bird flying across a bright blue sky. This poster advertises for "Last Summer in Chulimsk" by Alexander Wampilow.

• Johannes R. Becher/Winterschlacht/Das Meininger Theater

  Poster is white with aquq textured background that appears to form a human figure lzing dead on concrete. A green army helmet is depicted in fore near the head and a grey boot near the bottom. Text in upper left corner and bottom right. Advertises for Winter Battle, from Johannes R. Becher.

• Hotel Astoria: Schauspiel von Alexander Stein- Das Meininger Theater

  This poster is black with a spray-painted red border. Black and white photographic portraits of various individuals are inside the white inner border (dashed at bottom) depicting only faces. The text is in white around the white border. This poster advertises for the DDR premiere of "Hotel Astoria" from Alexander Stein.

• Daphne Oper von Richard Strauss

  Poster depicts a large tree in olive with the profile of a woman in yellow embedded facing left. Poster advertises for the opera "Daphne" by Richard Strauss, to be performed at Das Meininger Theater.

• Eugen Onegin: Lyrische Szenen in drei Akten von Peter Tschaikowski nach Alexander Puschkin Das Meininger Theater

  This poster is brown and yellow with a high contrast grain, featuring the corner of a table with a candlestick recently put out (smoking) and a crumpled handwritten letter. What appears to be a dead rose is visible underneath the paper. The poster advertises for Eugen Onegin, and opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest. Based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.