East German Poster Database

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• 5. Betriebs Festspiele

  Poster advertising performance festival in Weimar from 1-5 May 1974.

• Besucht die Gedenkstätten der Deutschen Klassik

  This poster is red with 16 photographs of locations associated with famous German literary figures.

• Der Kaufmann von Venedig / von William Shakespeare / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  This poster shows a painting of a man wearing a Doge's hat and cloak who is seated. He's looking at an outstretched hand that reaches into the poster from the left and if offering money. Another hand holding a short dagger is visible above. The colors are various brown and beige tones. The title is in pink letters across the top.

• Konig Heinrich der Funfte / Shakespeare / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  The main feature of this poster is a black line drawing of a king's head. His mouth is open and he seems to be making a speech. His left hand is raised making a victory sign. The background is white; the text is in reddish brown letters across the top of the poster.

• Kirschgarten / Anton Tschechow / Inszenierung: Galina Woltschek; Buhnenbild: Wladimir Kirilow; Kostume: Wjatscheslaw Saizew / Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  This poster has been mounted on cloth. It is drawn in various green tones. The center shows an elegantly dressed woman from behind – maybe at the end of the 19th century – who's leaving a house through a wide doorway. Cherry trees seem to be planted on both sides of the path leading up to the house. Stylized cherry branches bearing blossoms as well as fruit frame the drawing on either side. The title is in large green letters across the top.

• 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.

• Shakespeare: Leben und Sterben Koenig Johanns- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  This poster has a beige brown background with the text printed in black across the top. It shows a seated figure who is looking down on his folded hands in his lap with his left shoulder is bleeding. This poster advertises for Shakespeare's work "The Life and Death of King John."

• Iphigenie in Aulis/Oper von Christoph Willibald Gluck/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  Poster is bright red with a black bar and text in black at the top. It shows the rough outline of a woman in Greek dress; she is standing with her arms raised across her chest facing the viewer and looks up at the sky.

• Ich bin nun mal kein Yogi/Geschichte fur Schauspieler und eine Pop-Gruppe von Joachim Walther/Musik: J.-U. Gunther/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

  Poster features a line drawing of a man's bust; he has a comb is in the breast pocket of his coat; on the right side of his head is the drawing of a fish; the poster has a purple border and a purple speckled background; text in black letters; the title is partially underlined.

• Wallensteins Lager/Die Piccolomini/Wallensteins Tod/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is white with bold black line segment center top and double black border at bottom. Text in black. Advertises for three performances: "Wallenstein's Beer", "The Piccolomin", and "Wallenstein's Death", to be performed at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

• 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.

• Wyspianski: Novembernacht- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  This poster is white with a watercolor Weimar solider holding a sword horizontally above his head, surrounded by line drawings of what appear to be angels and demons, each trying to posture him. The text is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for "November Night" from Wyspianski.

• Candide: Musik: Leonard Berstein, nach dem Roman von Voltaire- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, DDR Erstaufführung

  This poster is an abstract work in pastels featuring several exaggerated portraits, one crying blood with its head detached from its neck, one a witch, one appears to be a gargoyle, and a nude woman lying at the bottom. The title is at top in white, with the remaining text at the bottom in gold and white. This poster advertises for "Candide" with music by Leonard Bernstein, based on the book by Voltaire.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Christopr Marlowe: Die tragische Geschichte vom Leben und Tod des Doctor Faustus

  This poster's background is gray with a graphite drawing of presumably Faust, who appears to be being attacked by something with a severed head. Other visible objects are a mouth with forked tongue, bishop's hat, crown, and alchemist's circle. It is partially colored in purple, red, yellow, blue and white. This poster advertises for "The Tragic Tale of Life and Death of Doctor Faustus", from Christopher Marlowe.

• Komödie von V.B./Weitersagen/Die Übergangsgesellschaft/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Volker Braun

  Poster is white with depiction of cube in center with silhouettes of body parts pressed flat against sides in blue, white, yellow, gray and green. Text above and below in black and red. Advertises for "The Transitional Society".

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Sieben Wünsche/Schauspeil von Armin Müller/Kefir für Durst, Hirse für den Hunger, ein Lager für die Nacht und dich zu wäarmen eine Frau. Ein Dach für deine Freunde und Adlerschwingen für deinen schönsten Traum.

  Poster is white with black and white woodblock print of a the inside of a house with a couple embrancing, a woman setting a table, and a man walking through the door. A rainbow enters from the window and proceeds through the the right edge of the poster. Text above and below in black diagonal. Advertises for "Seven Wishes", from Armin Müller.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Oper von Sandor Szokolay Samson DDR-Erstaufführung

  Poster is white with black graphite drawing of a nude man with head bowed appearing to push against two pillars on either side. Text in black diagonal at top. Advertises for the premiere in the DDR of the opera "Samson" from Sandor Szokolay.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar Volker Braun Siegfried Frauenprotokolle Deutscher Furor Urauffü[rung]

  Poster is white with black graphite drawings of abstract woman flying through the air, tongue sticking out, with crown falling offf her head, towards dark creature with hornss at bottom right. Text at top and center. Advertises for "German Furor" from Volker Braun. Note: Word "Uraufführung" is cut off at bottom, as appears part of depiction, indicating poster may be in pieces.

• Deutsch Nationaltheater Weimar Uraufführung/Der Schuster und der Hahn/Ein Spiel von Menschen und Tieren von Armin Stolper

  Poster depicts a shoemaker with hen-like features (tail, legs, wings) playing a guitar. A woman to the left is throwing papers in the air and a man to the right is running away with a bloody axe. Title at bottom with remaining text left vertical. Advertises for "The Shoemaker and the Hen", a "play of men and animals from Armin Stolper". Play's premiere.

• Wiederöffnung Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/5. Oktober 1975/Festkonzert der Weimarischen Staatskapelle Johann Wolfgang Goethe "Faust" I. Teil Johann Goethe "Faust" II. Teil Johannes R. Becher "Winterschlacht" Christoph Willibald Gluck "Iphigenie in Aul

  Poster is white with text repeated diagonally in black in each corner, clockwise: "Wiedereröffnung/Deutsches/Nationaltheater/Weimar". In top left center in small sepia print is description and date. Advertises for a "Fest Concert" of Weimar's City, featuring performances of "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, "Winter Battle" by Johannes R. Becher, "Iphigenie in Aulis", by Christoph WIllibald Gluck, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

• Die wundersame Schustersfrau/Oper von Udo Zimmerman/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/nach der Volkskomödie von Federico Garcia Loca

  Poster background is light brown with graphite/pastel depiction of four anthropomorphic figures in different colors (red, green, purple) crowding in front of a mannequin (?) whose breasts are falling out of her dress. Text at top at diagonal. Advertises for "The Wonderful Shoemaker's Wife", an opera from Udo Zimmerman based on the folk comedy by Federico Garcia Lorca.

• Oper von Gerhard Rosenfeld: Der Mantel nach Nikolai Gogols gleichnamiger Novelle von Gerhard Hartmann- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Uraufführung

  This poster is white with black sketch of an older man looking into his own face, which is about this size of his body, and followed behind by an even larger replication, followed by a larger one, and so forth. The text is in black at the top left with performance title, "The Mantle", in red. This was the premiere of the opera from Gerhard Rosenfeld.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Hayanvadana: Schauspiel von Girish Karnad

  This poster is black with depiction of head of white winged horse looking toward top left. The text is in white caps at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for the play "Hayavadana" from Girish Karnad and was the play's premiere in the DDR.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Die Hypothesen um die Brandstiftung and der Brücke zu Lowetsch am 3. August 1925: von Georgi Mischew

  This poster has beige background with large white space at bottom that appears to have been burned out. A line drawing at right of space depicts a hand holding a lighted match with the match in color. Above are three more similar drawings repeating vertically, but with different sleeves. The text is in black. This poster advertises for a performance titled "The Hypothesis about the Arson and the Bridge to Lowetsch on August 3rd 1925", from Georgi Mischew. This was the play's premere in the GDR.

• Goethe Faust/Zweiter Teil/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is grayish beige with charcoal or pastel line sketches of varioius figures blended together. Devil figure in blue features prominently toward right side of the poster. Advertises for a performance of the second part of Goethe's "Faust".