East German Poster Database

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• Christine Schorn Friedo Solter in/Zwei auf einer Bank/Alexander Gelman/Regie: Hellman/Bühne: Šramek

  Poster shows a bench in a park next to a blue [tie?]. Play directed by Hellman

• Dario Fo/Zufälliger Tod eines Anarchisten/Kammerspiele

  Poster is black with 3 by 3 grid of silhouettes on sky background, numbered in upper left corner 1-9 from left to right. Bottom two squares are empty. Title at top in red with remaining text in white top and botom. Advertises for "Dario Fo", "The random death of an Anarchist".

• Nikolai Haitow/Wege/Kammerspiele/Darsteller: Bärbel Bolle Kurt Böwe Horst Lebinsky Martin Trettau/Inszenierung: Uwe-Detlev Jessen Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Hans-Helmut Müller Musik: Andreas Altenfelder

  Poster is white with pink-scale photograph in center of a snail shell on sand on pebbles. Title in pink superimposed with remaining text above and below. Advertises for "Paths" from Nikolai Haitow.

• Theater im Bewegung '88/Internationale Tage der Pantomime in den Kammerspielen 3.-11. Dezember '88/Deutsches Theater Berliner Festtage

  Poster is a 5 x 7 grid of black and white photographs of white-gloved hands on black backrounds in the midst of different gestures. Title imposed in yellow script center bottom, with remaining text in yellow and white lowercase with bottom right grid square. Advertises for "Theater of Movement", an International Day of Pantomime.

• Shakespeare im/Wolfgang Heinz liest Sonette/Mass für Mass Reige: Adolf Dresen/Leben und Tod König Richard des Dritten Regie: Manfred Wekwerth/Der Sturm Regie: Friedo Solter/Deutsches Theater Schumannstrasse 13a

  Poster is white with black abstract line drawing of William Shakespeare. Below are four rectangular shapes of varying color (gold, blue, red, green respectively) with black text detailing different performances. Title at top in black, theater information at bottom white on black. Advertises for four performances of Shakespeare's works: Sonnets, Measure for Measure, The Life and Death of King Richard III, and The Storm.

• Carlo Goldoni/Die Sommerfrische/Deutsches Theaters/Regie: Wolfgang Heinz Karl von Appen Musik: Reiner Bredemeyer

  Poster is black with large white circle top center and orange "Deutshes Theaters" symbol inscribed within. A woman in a yellow dress and hat visible at right with a rope of flowers chained around her neck. A second invidual sits at bottom in a yellow shirt, looking up at her. Text in white and red script below. Advertises for "The Summer Dew".

• Berliner Ensemble/Volker Braun Allgemeine Erwartung Abend 2/Teil 1. Gedichte Geschichten von Hinze und Kunze Christine Gloger Dieter Knaup Arno Wyzniewski/2. Allgemeine Erwartung Musik Ralf Hoyer Aktion für zwei Klaviere und einen Schauspieler Ekkehard Sc

  Poster is red with black text. Advertises for performances of pieces from Volker Braun from the Berliner Ensemble. Part one features "Poems and Stories from Hinze and Kunze" starring Christing Glogger, Dieter Knaup and Arno Wyzniewski. Part two features "General Expectations", an action for two flutes and one actor, featuring Ekkehard Schall, Brigitte Hoyer, Thomas Just, and Ralf Hoyer.

• Emilia Galotti/Regie: Michael Jurgons Bühne & Kostüm: Ulrich Schreiber/Nathan der Weise/Regie: Friedo Solter ž Bühne: Hans-Jürgen Nikulka Kostüme: Christine Stromberg/Philotas/Regie: Friedo Solter Bühne: Hans-Jürgen Nikulka Kostüme: Christine Stromberg/Ma

  Poster is divided vertically into three columns. First features silhouetted profile of a man in an antiquated wig, with facial features highlighted in pink, set against red background. Text in yellow and black at top. Second is yellow with black text at top and third is black with yellow text at top, and red "x" bottom center. Diagonally from bottom left to top right is a pink banner with red text stating "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing". Advertises for three matine performances from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, "Emilia Galotti", directed by Michael Jurgons, "Nathan the Wise", directed by Friedo Solter, and "Philotas" directed by Frido Solter.

• Gerhart Hauptmann/Michael Kramer

  Poster depicts a shirt draped over a wooden painting easel. Background is dark brown with gold-beige border. Text in gold beige at top. Advertises for the play "Michael Kramer" from Gerhart Hauptmann.

• Christine Schorn Friedo Solter in/Zwei auf einer Bank/Alexander Gelman/Regie: Hellmann Bühne: Šramek/Kammerspiele

  Poster is a pastel (medium) depicton of a park bench with trees behind and a trash can at right with a blue tie hanging out. Text in white and black on white at top, bottom, center left and top right. Advertises for "Two on a Bank", from Alexander Gelman, starring Christine Schorn and Friedo Solter, directed by Hellmann.

• Böwe Körner Wachowiak Schnitzler Zglinicki Bauer Weinheimer Manz Piontek/Regie Winkelgrund Bühne Heidenreich Musik Hilprecht/Kikerikikeriki/Sean O'Casey/Kaminski Ziethen Schall Lienert Newumann Scholz Sonnenberg Jaster

  Poster features painting outlined in black of farm area with a large rooster startling the inhabitants (some are falling out of their chairs, smoke appears coming from the window of the farmhouse). A French (?) flag in distorited colors. Advertises for a performance of "Kikerikikeri", roughly translated, "cockadoodledoo", the noise a rooster makes.

• Ulrich Mühe als/Philotas/Regie: Solter Bühne: Nikulka Kostüme: Stromberg/Kleinert, Manz Montag/Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Poster is sea green with black border. Abstract conglomeration of shapes bottom center in black, pink, and red. Text in black at top. Pink banner across top center with black text announcing name of playwright. Poster advertises for a performance of "Philotas" starring Ulrich Mühe and directed by Solter. Play written by Gotthold Ephriam Lessing.

• Otto Mellies als/Nathan der Weise/Regie: Solter Bühne: Nikulka Kostüme: Stromberg/Gudzuhn Gwisdek Kleinert Krumbiegel Langhoff Jr. Mann Manz Mühe Paryla Schorn/Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Poster is yellow with black border. Abstract conglomeration of shapes center right in black, white and pink. Text in black at top and left, pink banner across center with black text announcing name of playwright. Advertises for a performance of "Nathan the Wise", starring Otto Mellies and directed by Solter. Play created by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

• Dagmar Manzel als/Emila Galotti/Regie: M. Jurgons Bühne: Schreiber/Baur Bendokat Hiemer Huth Jaster Neumann Ritter Schweighöfer Teuscher Tornow Zerbe/Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Poster is red orange with black border. Abstract conglomeration of shapes center right in black, orange, and pink. Text in black at top and left, pink banner across bottom with black text announcing name of playwright. Advertises for a performance of "Emilia Galotti" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, starring Dagmar Manzel and directed by M. Jurgons.

• Zum 250. Jahrestag der Uraufführung der Beggar's Opera am 29.1.1728 präsentiert das Deutsche Theater Berlin/Die Galoschen-Oper/von Heinz Kahlau in Errinerung an John Gay/Musik: Reiner Bredemeyer Regie: Friedo Solter

  Poster is yellow with black patterned inner border. Deicts various shoes at bottom in yellow and purple with names of actors in black script beside them. Text at top in black and purple. Advertises for "Die Galoschen-Oper" [difficult to translate] from Heinz Kahlau in memory of John Gray, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the premiere of the Beggar's Opera at the Deutsche Theater Berlin.

• Der Fahrer und die Köchin/von Albert Wendt/im [Deutsches Theater] Kleine Komödie

  Poster is gray with black and white line drawing in center of a man and a woman looking at each other from opposite ends of a white rectangle. Scattered around the poster are black line drawings of various animals, signs, architectural features, etc. with accompanying black text. Title in black at top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of "The Driver and the Cook" from Albert Wendt.

• Die falsche Münze von Maxim Gorki/Kammerspiele/Regie: Ulrich Engelmann/Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Jochen Finke/Musik: Reines Bredemeyer

  Poster is green with large Deutsches Theater symbol in red on yellow at left. Text in yello script at right and bottom left. Advertises for a performance of "The False [Counterfeit] Coin", by Maxim Gorki.

• Buhss: Die Festung

  Poster is an abstract painting of a humanoid figure with white face and empty blue eyes, red lips and black garb floating amidst a geometric design In predominately blue, purple, red and black. Green corner bottom right has black and white text. Advertises for a performance titled "The Fortress".

• Lorca/Bernarda Albas Haus/im Deuschen Theater

  Poster depicts a painted longhorn steer, with buck teeth and carious externalized orans attached to its body. It's legs resmeble ape or human hands. Blood runs from its visible eye and red erupts from its mouth to form bottom of poster. Text in white on red. Advertises for a performance of "Bernarda Alba's House".

• Arthur Kopit's Das Ende der Welt Mit Anschliessender Diskussion

  Poster is divided in half length-wise. Right is covered in blue dots, right is covered in red dots. Each side depicts a man's eye with thick eyebrows. Black border and text in thick black type. Advertises for a small play titled "The End of the World", directed by Alexander Stillmark with an discussion following.

• Shakespeare Ein Sommernachtstraum

  Poster is black with white text. In center is an abstract black and white portrait of a female face. Poster advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to be performed at the Deutschen Theater.