East German Poster Database

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• Ernst Barlach: Der blaue Boll- Regie: Winkelgrund, Musik: Hilprecht, Bühne: Keienburg

  This poster depicts a large man in ghostly white color with red lips, wearing a black bowl hat and black suit, with a blue pig emerging from his collar. The background is red. The title is in white at the top with the remaining text in white chalk writing at the bottom. This poster advertises for "The Blue Boll", from Ernst Barlach, directed by Winkelgrund.

• Kammerspiele- Christoph Hein: Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q nach Lu Xun, Regie: Alexander Lange, Bühnenbild - Gero Troil

  This poster is white with a corkboard in center, painted over in black with an abstract circle showing a horizon with repeating loops as the landscape. This poster advertises for "The True History of Ah Q according to Lu Xun" from Christoph Hein, directed by Alexander Lang.

• Der Sturmgeselle Sokrates: Hermann Sudermann, Inszenierung: Thomas Langhoff

  This poster is white with an angel in one-shouldered tunic and black wings blowing a trumpet and carrying a broken sword. The title is in black script on the left left and top with the remaining text at the bottom. This poster advertises for "The Storm Journeyman" from Hermann Sudermann.

• Senecas Tod: Peter Hacks, Esche Gregorek, Kahler Mellies, Ludwig Borgelt, Reusse Piontek, Dommisc Christoph, Regie - Cox Habbema - Bühnenbild - Karl von Apen

  This poster's background is a textured brown, marble. The text is at the top in black. In the center is what appears to be a black floorplan with names inscribed in each room. A large Deutsches Theaters symbol in in the very center. This poster advertises for "The Death of Seneca" from Peter Hacks, directed by Cox Habbema.

• Schwanengesang: Anton Tschechow, Rolf Ludwig, Peter Reusse, Regie - Engelmann Bühne - Wenzel Musik - Hilprecht

  This poster depicts a painting of a man with exaggerated hair and lips (clown-like) in period costume standing against a blue-hued wall. The title is at the top in black outlined in blue, with theater and other information at bottom in orange. This poster advertises for "Swan Song" from Anton Tschechow, directed by Engelmann.

• Augusto Boal, Mit der Faust ins offene Messer, Regie: Medina, Bühne: Neumann: Deutsches Theater Kammerspiele

  This poster is white with a black and white photograph of a chair sitting in an empty room with picture on the wall of what appears to be a boat. Parts of the photograph have been colored, such as a saw on the floor beside the chair and arbitrary red splotches in the air. This poster advertises for a performance of "Fist Right Into the Trap" from Augusto Boal, directed by Medina.

• Paul Claudel: Mittags Wende, mit Anne Else Paetzold Jörg Gudzuhn Dieter Mann Peter Reusse, DDR-Erstaufführung Regie Rolf Winkelgrund Bühne Jürgen Heidenreich Musik Ralf Hoyer

  This poster is mostly beige, and depicts a woman in a hat and sleeveless dress leaning against a pole with her hand on a railing in colored pencil. A man stands behind her, with a third man at left looking out over with back to viewer and a fourth man at right also looking out over railing but facing viewer. This poster advertises for the DDR premiere of "Wednesday Change", from Paul Claudel, starring Anne Else Paetzold and directed by Rolf Winkelgrund.

• Kammerspiele- Andreas Gryphius: Horribili Cribrifax- Schertz-Spiel

  This poster is beige with a white rectangle at top depicting black and white male doll wearing a ruffled collar and hat. The text below is in black and red. This poster advertises for "Horribili Cribrifax" from Andreas Gryphius, directed by Alexander Lang.

• Begegnung mit Frauen - nach en Tonbandprotokollen von Maxie Wander: Guten Morgen, du Schöne

  This poster is predominantly black, with an off-white arched shape in center depicting a nude black-and-white fairy wearing a string of pearls around her neck. Outside the arch are depicted a crescent moon and various stars. The fairy's right leg grows into a root system underneath the arch. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for a performance of "Good Morning, Beautiful"; "encounters with women based on minutes from the tapes of Maxie Wander".

• Brendan Behan: Die Geisel- Regie Thomas Langhoff

  This poster depicts a black and white pencil sketch of a skeleton smoking a cigarette and drinking a glass of presumably wine. It features hand-sketched text at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of Brendan Behan's "The Hostage", directed by Thomas Langhoff.

• Henrik Ibsen: Gespenster- Kammerspiele, Inszeneirung Thomas Langhoff

  This poster is iridescent silver with black ink splotches. It has a black border at the bottom with silver text. This poster advertises for "Ghosts", from Henrik Ibsen.

• DT Pantomime-Ensemble/Blaubart/Fünf Burlesken in einem Speil von Burkhart Seidemann

  Poster is black and white, with an oval photograph of three bald female mimes in center wearing white robes and man behind looking down with a pair of open scissors in his right hand. Title at top and bottom white on black. Advertises for a performance of "Blaubart", fiver burlesques in one play, from Burkhart Seiemann, by the DT Pantomime Ensemble. Note: Poster is pasted to black cardstock.

• Amphitryon: Komödie von Peter Hacks

  This poster is green with a shell-like mirror image in the center done in black like a blockprint. The text is in the negative space between the shell, and above and below the shell in black. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amphitryon" from Peter Hacks, directed by Friedo Solter and lists the actors and their parts at bottom. Finally, the border of the poster is in red.

• Aloen: Athol Fugard- Kammerspiele

  This poster is green with a splattered black and white design. It depicts what could be construed as the red silhouette of an anthropomorphized tree, with root-like feet and leafy hair. The text is in handwritten white font. This poster advertises for a performance of Athol Fugard's "Aloen".

• Aphrodite und der Sexische Krieg/Ein Musical nach Motiven von Aristophanes' LYSISTRATE, von Jutta Eberhardt-Leister und Wolfgang Tilgner, Musk: Gerhard Kneifel/Uraufführung: Leipziger Theater-Musikalische Komödie

  This poster has coral background with black and white print. It depicts an armored Greek soldier chasing a nude woman with a cherubim pinching his nose as he does so (in Greek style). The text is in white at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the musical "Aphrodite and the Sexy Wars," and was the play's premiere.

• Orfeüs: Pantomim-Ensemble

  This poster is black with small indiscernible black and white photo in center. The title of play is at the top in white script with the remaining text in white at the bottom left. This poster advertises for the pantomimed play "Orpheus", directed by Seidemann.

• Franca Rame, Dario Fo: Offene Zweierbeziehung, Mit Dagmar Manzel und Thomas Neuman

  This poster is a painting of a woman in a low-back dress dancing with a ghostly blue man who has presumably shoved a knife into her back. In the background is a window showing a night sky with red stars. The text is in blue and red in the top left corner. This poster advertises for the play "Open Couple" starring Franca Rame and Dario Fo.

• Peripherie: Eine Vorstadtballade von František Langer, Kammerspiel

  This poster is brown with an oval in center bordered by watercolor floral boughs. Inside is a woman in short red dress with a musical horn standing atop a gold ball and a man left and woman right seemingly drowning. The poster advertises for the small play "Periphery" by Czech playwrite František Langer.

• Paris. Paris- Bulgakow

  This poster is blue with a black border. It depicts a black passenger ship with lit windows and a red man who has been stabbed n the chest, with an anthropomorphized death behind him. The title in yellow is at the top with author in blue below. This poster advertises for a play titled Paris. Paris possibly by Michail Bulgakow.

• Patrioten: Friedrich Wolf

  This poster is black with an abstract depiction in center of a woman in a tavern-like setting surrounded by a group of men. A blue, white, and red-striped bar runs diagonal across the top left corner of the depiction. The title of play is in blue on left side, with the remainder of text in white on right. This poster advertises a French play titled "Patriots", by Friedrich Wolf.

• Adolf Glassbrenner/Ein Heiratsantrag in der Niedermallstrasse/oder Der preussische Kinderfruend

  Poster is pink depicting abstact, toothed shapes interposed with numbers and German nationalist imagery. Text in black medieval script at top and bottom. Poster advertises for a play titled "A Marriage Proposal in the Niedermallstrasse or The Prussian Child's Friend", by Adolf Glassbrenner, to be performed at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

• Ei! Kennt ihr noch das alte Lied? Deutsche Balladen von Goetche, Schiller, Heine und Uhland gesungen und gesprochen von Cox Habbema Eberhard Esche Herwart Grosse

  Poster is burnt sepia with black text and patterned black border and black ivy dividers. Title reads "Well! Do you know the old song? German ballads from Goethe, Schiller, Heine, and Uhland sung and spoken by Cox Habbema, Eberhard Esche, and Herwart Grosse in Deutschen Theater Berlin."

• Jean-Claude Grumberg: Dreyfus- Deutsches Theater Im Bat

  This poster is a 3 x 5 grid of sepia photographs of groups of men of different ages. The text in black at top and bottom. It advertises for a play by Jean-Claude Grumberg titled "Dreyfus", to be performed at the Deutsches Theater im Bat.

• Eberhard Esche: Schauspeiler am Deutschen Theater zu Berlin spricht von der Bühne des Hauses herab

  This poster is white with red border. A black and white line drawing of a bearded man in center covering his eyes, with sheets of paper written on in red at his feet. The poster advertises for a play by Heinrich Heine titled "Germany: A Winter Fairytale", to be performed by actors from the Deutsches Theater.

• Diktatur des Gewissens

  This poster is khaki with a black grid covering most of it. The title of performance in purple top left, as if stamped. The poster shows the thickly drawn head and shoulders of a person made of blocks and splotched with purple spray paint, with letters floating around it. Above hangs a light bulb with a red arrow point to it from the top right corner. Poster advertises for a play by Michail Schatrow titled "Dictatorship of the Conscience", to be performed in the Deutsches Theater.