East German Poster Database

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• Kurt Hoffman's Musikalische Räuberpistole: Das Wirtshaus im Spessart- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is a watercolor in green and pink, with line drawings in black of presumably characters from the performance, including a man resembling Benjamin Franklin a woman with exaggerated lips, a man with horizontal mustache and hair, and a juvenile or short man holding a knife with exaggerated teeth. Two creepy eyes are visible at the bottom. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for a "musical cock-and-bull story" from Kurt Hoffmann titled "The Inn at Spessart", based on the book by Curt Hanno Gutbrod with text by Günther Schwenn and Willy Denmel with music by Franz Grothe.

• Michail Schatrow: Blaue Pferde auf rotem Gras- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam, Regie: W. Mattukat, Bühne: B. Neumann

  This poster's background is pale blue, with an image of a man in red leaping into the air with planes that appear meant as wings on his arms. A town is visible silhouetted in white in the bottom right corner. The text is in navy on white at the right. This poster advertises for Michail Schatrow's "Blue Horse on Red Grass", directed by W. Mattukat.

• Minna von Barnhelm, oder das Soldatenglück: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is pink with an off-white border at the top. A seal bottom right with a crowned eagle and letters "F" and "R" combined, to look like the seal of Prussia, and a red heart beneath. The text at the top is black on white and red on pink, while the bottom is black on pink. Most of the text is in italics. This poster advertises for "Minna from Barnhelm or the Soldier's Luck", from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

• Montagabend- Still Life- Emily Mann: DDR-Erstaufführung- Probebühne, Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster's background is white speckled with green. It is divided horizontally into segments speckled with varying thickness. The text is in black except for the name of the playwright in red, at the center. A large capital "M" sits at the top in black with white dots and "Montagbend" [Monday Evening] underneath. This poster advertises for the DDR Premiere of Emily Mann's "Still Life", produced by Robert Ebeling and starring Gisela Leipert.

• Oper für Kinder von Kurt Schwaen: Pinocchios Abenteuer- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is a vibrant green with a black and red minimalist painted depiction of Pinocchio (wearing a red cap) in profile facing left. The text is in black hand-painted text on the horizontal at the top and vertical from the left and right center and bottom. In the vertical text, letter spaces are filled in red. This poster advertises for the children's opera "Pinocchio's Adventures" from Kurt Schwaen.

• Was heißt hier Liebe? Ein Spiel um Liebe und Sexualität für Leute in und nach der Pubertät- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is yellow with a depiction of an abstracted boy and girl. They look to be kissing, with the boy holding up the girl on the right. The text is at the bottom in yellow on black in a handwritten font. This poster advertises for performance titled "What is Love Called Here?", a play of "love and sexuality for people in and after puberty".

• Oscar Wilde: Der Ideale Gatte- Salonkomödie im Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is black with a black and white depiction of a man with a monocle, top hat, pinstripe suit, and bowtie who is being embraced from behind by a woman in a hat attempting to pull his wallet from his jacket. The background is in red with black concentric lines. The text is in red and white on black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of "The Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde.

• Montagabend- Thomas Heise: Schweigendes Dorf- Fragment eines Dokumentarfilms aus Papier- Ab April 1988 im Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is black with white text, except for the performance title, which is in red. A large capital "M" is outlined in white at the top. At the bottom is a negative image in white on black of a human left eye and nose. This poster advertises for "Silent Village", a fragment of a documentary film on paper from Thomas Heise.

• Montagabend-Armin Stolper: Dienstreisende- Gespräche zwischen Gubanow und Nitoschkin Inszenierung: Günter Rüger Ausstattung: Eva Müller Es spielen: Eckhard Müller Hans-Jochen Röhrig und Getraud Kreißig- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is light blue with a darker blue grid superimposed and blue architectural plans in the center. A large black letter "M" is outlined in black at top with "Montagabend" (Monday Evening) below in black. A black sketch of a stylized sculpture torso atop a large die, with playwright and title is below in black. The remaining text is in blue and the theater name at very bottom in black. This poster advertises for "Business Travelers", conversations between Gubanow and Nitotschkin, produced by Günter Rüger and starring Eckhard Müller.

• Der Liebes-Trank: Komische Oper von Gaetano Donizetti, Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam

  This poster is purple with a white chalice decorated with a purple jagged line across top signifying a full glass and a red heart underneath. The text is in white at the top with the theater in white at the bottom. This poster advertises for comic opera "The Love Drink" from Gaetano Donizetti.

• DDR-Erstaufführung- Der Todeskampf eines Selig Entschlafenen- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is off-white (potentially due to age) with black text. It depicts an angry black bull at the bottom with a sword stuck in his back and a torn red piece of cloth hanging off of his right horn. This poster advertises for the DDR premiere of "The Death Struggle of a Peaceful Death".

• Puccini Oper- La Bohème- Hans-Otto Theater Potsdam

  This poster is a grayscale depiction of a ghostly covered architectural feature floating in fog above cobblestones. The text is in gray and white going on the vertical left and right at the top and horizontal at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the opera "La Bohème" by Puccini.

• Čapek: Wie ein Theater Stück entsteht- 2 Stueck.- Die Himmelfahrt der Galgentoni Kisch- Kleines Theater am Alten Markt, Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is off-white recycled paper. The text is in black at the top and bottom, with "2 Stueck." in red at the center right. The theater's information is in faint handwritten-text at the very bottom. It features a black line drawing in the center of a woman sitting bent over at a table facing right. Superimposed is an outline of the woman's head, sitting on top of her shoulders upright looking straight ahead, with dashed lines emerging outward from her eyes. The depiction is framed in red. This poster advertises for two performances by Čapek, "How to Create a Theater Piece" and "The Ascension of the Gallows [Kisch]".

• Hänsel und Gretel- Märchen Oper von Engelbert Humperdinck- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster's background is purple and scattered with orange gingerbread cut-outs outlined in black. Superimposed are line drawings of Hansel and Gretel in black and white, with random purple hatching. The children appear almost emaciated. The title is at the top left in purple on white, with the remaining text white on black top right. This poster advertises for the fairytale opera "Hansel and Gretel" from Engelbert Humperdinck.

• Montagabend- Der Auftrag- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam- Heiner Müller

  This poster is gray with the repeated text of "Die Revolution ist die Maske des Todes/Der Tod ist die Maske der Revolution" [The Revolution is the mask of death/The dead are the mask of the Revolution]. A large letter "M" is outlined in black at the top with "Montagabend" (Monday Evening) below it in black. "Der Auftrag" is below at the bottom scrawled in red. The remaining text is in black with Heiner Müller's name in red. This poster advertises for "The Order" from Müller.

• Montagabend- Heiner Müller: Wolokolamsker Chaussee IV: Kentauren, Wolokolamsker Chaussee V: Der Findling- Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam

  This poster is white with tiny black dots that make it appear gray. A large letter "M" is in white at the top with "Montagabend" (Monday Evening) below in white. "Heiner Müller" is below in black on red with a black border. The remaining text is in black. This poster advertises for performances of part 4 and 5 of Heiner Müller's cylce of plays "Volokolomsk Highway", also known as "Road of Tanks": "Centaur" and "The Foundling".

• Prinz Friedrich von Homburg

  This poster is composed of a blue-gray speckled background with a green border. Across the top-center of poster runs a white chain with a green laurel in the middle and white-gray rag hanging over. The text is in black on either side and across the bottom. This poster advertises for a play titled "Prince Friedrich from Homburg", by Heinrich von Kleist, to be performed at the Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam.