East German Poster Database

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• Das Märchen Von Der Schönen Lilie

  Poster is green, blue, yellow and black with white letters. It looks like a woodcut print, depicting a night scene along the banks of a river. The poster advertises a production of Giselher Klebe's opera “Das Märchen von der Schönen Lilie” which is adapted from a story by Goethe.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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".

• Goethe Faust/erster Teil/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is mostly covered with an abstract painting of what is presumably hell, with several humanoid figures in red and gray brush strokes who apear in agony. Figures blend together and into random flame-like brush strokes. Title in black at top. Advertises for a performance of the first part of Goethe's "Faust".

• Al fresco für Musiktheater von Robert Hanell/Fiesta/nach dem Roman „Fiesta in Mozares” von Prudencio de Pereda/Uraufführung/Deutches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is off-white with black border. Prominently features abstract painting of a man with his ands behind his back and head down, with another indivdual behind to the left with fist raised (face obscured) and a woman to the right who is leaned over and covering her face with her hand. Advertises for a muscial titled "Fiesta" from Robert Hanell based on the book "Fiesta in Mozares" by Prudencio de Pereda. Play's premiere.

• Coriolanus/Oper von Ján Cikker Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is white with painted depictions of a man in red robe and sandles looking left and sticking his tongue out, clutching a laurel crown in his righthand. To the right of him is another man in a black robe and sandals, carrying a shield painted like a mask with mouth open. Text in black vertical left and bottom. Advertises for the opera "Coriolanus" from Ján Cikker.

• Brendan Behan/Richards Korkbein/Einie irische Unterhaltung/DDR-Erstaufführung/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  Poster is a black and white photograph of a person's back, with miniature black birds in flight superimosed on top. Text in red bottom left and right. Advertises for an "Irish conversation" titled "Richard's Cork Leg", by Brendan Behan. Play's premiere in the DDR.

• Fühlst du nicht das Wehen aus dem Süden?

  Poster is white with black line border, which froms a janus-faced male bottom center. A second individual has been rocketed toward the top left corner. Border is blown open in seeming bloody fashion center right. Two speech bubbles emerge from the figure at bottom, one giving the theater, director, and stage manager. The second gives the title. Poster advertises for a play titled "Do you not feel the wind from the South?"