East German Poster Database

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• Dmitri Schostakowitsch: Die Nase- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is a painting of a Napoleonic Era soldier heavily decorated with multiple medals, but faceless. The uniform in entirely green. The title is above in white, with the remaining text at the top and bottom in black. This poster advertises for the opera "The Nose" from Dmitri Shostakovich.

• Hans Werner Henze: Undine Ballett- Inszenierung und Choreographie György Vámos

  This poster is mostly in shades of brown. It depicts a sunrise/set over a water with hills on the horizon. The sunlight reflects down onto a drawn hand, burning the palm. The text is in white at top and bottom. This poster advertises for the ballet "Undine", staged and choreographed by György Vámos.

• Franz Schreker: Der Schmied von Gent- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Grose Zauber Oper nach Charles de Coster

  This poster's background is brown. It depicts a faceless monster whose body shows a landscape of a small town, with the title inscribed over his face. The left half is dark with a horn, right side is light with a wing. This poster advertises for "The Blacksmith from Gent", a "large magic opera" from Charles de Coster.

• Der Nußknacker: Ballett von Pjotr I. Tschaikowski- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster background is black. It depicts a girl with blonde pigtails and floral tutu-style dress in ballet pose, with the Nutcracker battling the Rat King below. This poster advertises for a performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker".

• Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Die Entführung auf dem Serail- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster depicts a framed picture of a walled town, with a man bringing a woman over the left wall via a ladder. A dashed red line from left to right shows a man leaping forward toward the city at the left and a man holding a blindfolded woman at the right. At the bottom center a man and a woman are depicted in an embrace. This poster advertises for a performance of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio".

• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Manuel de Falla, Meister Pedros Puppenspiel, Ballet: Der Liebeszauber, Concerto per Clavicembalo, Hommage à Debussy-Psyché

  This poster is white with a red border. The text is in black except for the name "Falla" in the performance title. This poster advertises for "Manuel de Falla", a puppet play from Master Pedro.

• Joseph Haydn: Apollo-Saal- Marionetten~Opera, Deutsch Staatsoper Berlin. Staatliches Puppentheater Neubrandenburg

  This poster is black with white text at the top and bottom. It depicts a white outline of Haydn, filled with a wood grain white on black pattern. In the center of the outline's head is a photograph of two wooden marionettes. This poster advertises for a Marionette Opera from Joseph Haydn.

• Manon: von Jules Massenet- Deutsches Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is black with a depiction of a woman's face comprised entirely of intricate white and purple lace patterns. The face is bordered by depictions of thick flowing hair in the same lace patterns. The text is in white and purple italics at the bottom. This poster advertises for "Manon" from Jules Massenet.

• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Uraufführung, Meister Röckle: Oper für große und kleine Leute, Musik Joachim Werzlau, Text Günther Deicke

  This poster is white with a depiction of a man in a large overcoat hanging over a telescope at top, with a little girl at left and boy at right. A parrot sits on left side of the telescope and a dog sits on the right side of the boy. At the bottom is a demon rolling around in flames. This poster advertises for the premiere of the children's opera "Master Röckle", with music by Joachim Werzlau and text by Günther Deicke.

• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Margarete: Charles Gounod

  This poster is black with white and gray clouds in the center and the title superimposed in black and outlined in white. The theater's information is in white print at the top and playwright in white script at the bottom. This poster advertises for "Margarete" by Charles Gounod.

• Ballettabend- Sinfonie in C/Carmen Suite: Georges Bizet, Joan from Zarissa: Werner Egk, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is white with slightly diagonal lines going vertical across poster. At the top is white text shadowed in black advertising an "Evening of Ballet", followed by a black line, followed by blue text advertising "Symphony in C", followed by a black line, followed by purple text advertising "Joan from Zarissa", followed by a black line, followed by orange-red text advertising the "Carmen Suite", followed by a black line, followed by white text shadowed in black with name of the theater.

• La Cenerentola: Rossini, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Aschenputtel

  This poster is a photograph of a white mask with nails that have been driven through in various places from behind. The mask rests face-up in the dirt, with a pair of feathered wings behind it. Below the mask is a large white feather, with a nest of eggs below that. Various other objects are scattered around. the poster features a white border with black text on all sides. It advertises for a performance of "Cinderella" from Rossini.

• Ariadne auf Naxos: Richard Strauss, Zum 100. Geburtstag von Richard Strauss- In der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin

  The poster is white with a mustard-colored border. It depicts (in black and white) on the left bust of Richard Strauss. The text at right is in mustard, blue-green, and black. this poster advertises for a performance of "Adrianne from Naxos" in celebration of Strauss' 100th birthday.

• Acts und Galatea: Pastoral von Georg Friedrich Hände-l nebst dem Intermezzo, Die Listige Magd von Johann Adolf Hasse- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is white with a pink oval in center outlined in black with a gold outer border forming a geometric design at top, right, bottom and left. The text is in a black serif font inside the oval. In the titles of the performances the test is divided horizontally so that it is solid at top, but floral patterned at bottom. This poster advertises for Händel's "Acts and Galatea" and "The Crafty Maid" from Johann Adolf Hasse.

• Werner Egk: Abraxas Ballett- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster depicts a hollow bust of a male human head with a chipped nose. Out of the head emerges snakes which resemble brains, along with roses, stars, and pearls. The background is divided vertically into a sky with a rainbow and a green background with jagged black arrows pointing outward. Flowers flow toward the former, snakes and pearls toward the latter. The text is at the bottom in white on black, black on blue, and gray on yellow, with theater name torp left in black on pink. This poster advertises for the ballet "Abraxas" from Werner Egk.

• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Aufforderung zum Tanz: Romantische Ballettszenen in Choreographien von Marius Petipa und Michail Fokin

  This poster is green with a black and white depiction in the top center of an angel in the Victorian style. The text in darker green is at the top and bottom with performance title in white directly below the image. This advertises for a ballet titled "An Invitation to Dance", from Marius Petipa and Michail Fokim.

• Romeo and Julia: Ballet von Sergeij Prokofjew- Deutsch Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is a black and white (predominantly black) blurred photo with an indistinguishable object, but probably a person. The title is in white and black on white on the top left and right sides. It advertises for a ballet performance of Romeo and Juliet from Sergei Prokofiev based off the work of William Shakespeare.

• Carl Maria von Weber/Oberon/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  Poster background is a painted red texture, partially scratched away near the top to reveal the face of a stone statue. Text in white gothic script beneath. Advertises for the opera "Oberon" by Carl Maria von Weber.

• Verdi: Othello- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is white with a black border at left and bottom. It depicts a black, block print of a male figure, with face visible at bottom. The text is in white along the border. This advertises for performance of the opera "Othello" composed by Giuseppe Verdi based on Shakespeare's work.

• Pjotr Tschaikowski/Pique Dame/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

  This poster is green and depicts a queen of spades card in center with black and white depictions of a man and a woman instead. The spades are half black/half red. Its text is in black on all sides of card. This poster advertises for Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame" opera.

• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin: Parsifal- Richard Wagner

  This poster is green with black text top and bottom. The title of the opera is in white handwritten script at the center. It advertises for a performance of Wagner's opera "Parsifal".

• Porträts: Ballet-Impressionen

  This poster depicts a black and white, high-contrast photograph of two pairs of legs, the back in jeans and tennis shoes and the fore in knee socks. The title of the performance in red stamped across, with remaining text at bottom in white on black. This poster advertises for the ballet "Portraits", in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, put on by the Deutsche State Opera in Berlin.

• Peter und der Wolf/Des Kaisers Neue Kleider/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin/Im Verbindung mit dem Theater der Freundschaft

  Poster is aqua with two dimensional depiction of a white book with black wolf on back cover with red lasso on tail and a yellow duck on the front cover with a blue flag. Title of play in multi colored letters at bottom. Poster advertises for "Peter and the Wolf" and "The Emperor's New Clothes", to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin in cooperation with the Theater der Freundschaft.

• Die drei Musketiere

  This poster is black with a cartoon of the three musketeers inside a spurred boot. The title in white medieval script at top with remaining text near the bottom in handwritten script. The poster advertises for the ballet "The Three Muskateers" to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.

• Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Don Carlos: Giuseppe Verdi

  This poster is white with black type at top and bottom. The title of performance is in the center is in red. It advertises for an opera by Giuseppe Verdi titled "Don Carlos", to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.