East German Poster Database

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• 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.

• 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.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Eine tragische Komödie con Friedrich Dürrenmatt/Der Besuch der alten Dame

  Poster is white with black border and black text at bottom. Depicts a black and white painting of a nude female (headless) torso with feathered wings instead of arms. Advertises for the tragedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "The Visit from Old Woman".

• Manfred Heine Erwin Berner a. G. in Armin Stolper Aufzeichnungen eines Toten nach bulgakows »Theaterroman« - Regie: Helfried Schöbel- Uraufführung, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  This poster is black and depicts the black silhouette of an individual standing at the entrance of a multi-level stage filled with stage lights pointing at him (in black and white). The text is in white around the border and in black superimposed on white space at bottom. It advertises for a performance of "Records of a Dead Man" starring Manfred Heine and Erwin Berner.

• Agrippina: Oper von Georg Friedrich Handel- Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  this poster is composed of a blue-green background and four beige-gold columns in the foreground. Animated beige-gold sculptures look out from behind the columns in the midst of different activities (i.e., kissing, conversing, exchanging an item, etc.). The text is at top in black and at the right in red. This poster advertises for Händel's opera "Agrippina".

• Johannes Felsenstein Präsentiert: Alexis Zorba, Buch: Joseph Stein, Musik: John Kander, Gesangstexte: Fred Ebb

  This poster is a black and white block print of Greek rural life. It advertises for a musical titled "Alexis Zorba" from Joseph Stein, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis and music by John Kander. This was the musical's premiere in the DDR. the poster is in two pieces.

• Omphale/Oper in drei Akten/Libretto: Peter Hacks Musik: Siegfried Matthus Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar Uraufführung

  Poster is orange with white border. Depicts the green ihouette of a man with a cut-out silhouette of a woman inside. Text in black at top. Poster advertises for an opera titled "Omphale" from Peter Hacks.

• DDR-Erstaufführung- Lyrische Tragödie von George Enescu: Oedipus

  This poster is white with an abstract black sketch portrait of a man upside down. The text is in black, partially smeared, at bottom. It advertises a performance of George Enescu's lyric adaptation of Oedipus.

• Pericles by William Shakespeare- DDR Erstaufführung, Deutsches Nationatheater Weimar

  This poster is black with a brightly colored abstract depiction of a woman in pink and yellow standing on a coast with Greek ship in background. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's Pericles. It was the play's premiere in the DDR.

• Tschechow Drei Schwestern: Im Morgengrauen ist es noch still Wassiljew…

  This poster is sepia photo collage of different women, two of which appear to be holding guns. The poster advertises for play by Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov titled "Three Sisters", to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.

• Paul Dessau: Einstein- Oper in drei Akten

  This poster is black and white. It features a silhouette of an unidentified individual with hand-sketched sheet music, ink well, knife, and writing behind. the poster advertises for a three act opera by Paul Dessau titled Einstein, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.

• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar- Slawomir Mrozek: Emigranten

  This poster is a muddled yellow, black and white. It features abstract art like that of a woodblock print, of two individuals sitting back to back and looking over their shoulders at each other on a shared table with a dog between them. The poster advertises for a play by Slawomir Mrozek titled The Émigrés, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.

• A.P. Tschechow Drei Schwestern: Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar

  This poster is brown with a green border. The center bottom features three pieces of lace, with black and white abstract portraits of three women superimposed on the largest piece. The poster advertises for play by Russain dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov titled "Three Sisters", to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.