East German Poster Database

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• Kinder / M. Gorki / Komodie / Buhnen der Stadt Magdeburg / DDR Erstauffuhrung / Maxim Gorki.

  The background of this poster is white. Two thick black lines provide a frame. The bottom half shows two green bottles with labels of yellow and orange flowers. The text is displayed on a sign in black letters on a yellow background above the bottles. The 'sign' has an ornate green border.

• Alexander Chmelik/Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Theater für junge Zuschauer/Und Sie bewegt sich/Doch?

  Poster is white with depiction of a man wearing a pair of dragon wings, with shooting star and ringed planet in background. Text at top and bottom in black. Advertises for "And you're moving, right?" from Alexander Chmelik.

• ...Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg/Richard Wagner/Die Walküre

  Poster background is collage of gradient color scale images, mostly statues and antique paintings. Superimposed in arc from center left to bottom right in yellow gothic script is title of performance, The Valkyrie from Wagner. Poster appears to be one half of two.

• Götterdämmerung/Richard Wagner/Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg Maxim Gorki/Nibelu

  Poster advertises for a performance of Wagner's "Twilight of the Gods". Deicts earth as seen from space with a robed death figure sitting on its pole with a sickle and a city rising from the toher side. Winged demons in red float toward bottom center. Title of performance in yellow arc halfway circling the globe with remaining text at bottom in white and gray.

• Coppelia/Ballett von Léo Delibes

  Poster background is purple and white. Depicts white outline of a bald woman, with no visible features except red lips hodling a black line and a red mole. Purple gears superimposed on lower torso. Text in black and red top right. Advertises for a ballett performance of Coppelia, from Léo Delibes.