East German Poster Database

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• Sweet Charity: Tanz-Musical von Neil Simon/ Cy Coleman / Dorothy Fields- Landes Theater Halle

  This poster is black at left with large black and white etched depiction of a woman in silhouette from behind standing in a city, looking out at the buildings. A large red heart is in center right. The text is in red outlined in white at the top, with the remaining text below in black. This poster advertises for the musical "Sweet Charity" from Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields

• Die Schöne Helena: Jacques Offenbach- Landestheater Halle

  This poster is black with a gray textured silhouette of a nude woman facing left with hair in a ponytail. The text is vertical on either side in red, white and blue like the French flag. This poster advertises for "The Beautiful Helen" from Jacques Offenbach.

• Der Aufstieg auf den Fudschijama von Tschingis Aimatow/Kaltai Muhameschanow: Landestheater Halle/Neues Theater, Regie: Prof. P. Förster a. G.

  This poster is white with a jagged horizontal line running across the center, representing the mountain range that has Fuji. A red slash is across the center of the line. The title is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a play titled "The Ascent of Mt. Fuji", by Aimatow and Muhamedshanow.

• Alexis Sorbas/(Zorba): Landestheater Halle Musical- Buch: Joseph Stein, Musik: John Kander, Gesangstexte: Fred Ebb

  This poster is white with a black painted depiction of two dancing zorbas, with black crisscrossed lines underneath. The title at top also painted in black, with red underlining. This poster advertises for a musical titled "Alexis Zorba" from Joseph Stein, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis and music by John Kander.

• Antigonä: Hölderlin nach Sophokles- Landestheater Halle, Neues theater

  This poster is white with yellow polka dots. There are black painted lines that run abstractly throughout in no discernable pattern. The title text is white on red, with director and stage director in white on black. This poster advertises for a performance of the tragedy of Antigone, directed by Alexander Stillmark.

• Amphitryon: Komödie in 3 Akten von Armin Stolper- Landes Theater Halle

  This poster is red with an off-white vertical segment depicting Zeus in purple with a red toga about to fall through a hole in the floor of the sky toward earth, where more purple inhabitants point upward in anticipation. The text is in black script at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for the comedy "Amphitryon".

• Mozart: Apollo & Hyazinth- Im Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt

  This poster features a painted profile of a man in blue, green and red. The man has long hair and is wearing a headband. He is looking at a bird, also painted in profile, mostly black with a band of red feathers at its neck. The text is in black at the top and top right. This poster advertises for Mozart's opera "Apollo and Hyacinth".

• Werner Egk: Abraxas- Dramatisches Ballet- Landes Theater Halle

  This poster is black with a red stippled depiction of a ballerina's legs on point. The title is in white and red vertical text at left, with remaining text in red at right. This poster advertises for a performance of the ballet "Abraxas" from Werner Egk.

• Landestheater Halle- Das Aller-heiligste: Drama von Ion Druţă, Regie: Peter Sodann

  This poster is blue and depicts a cartoon tree with limbs chopped off and scattered on the ground, and a large chunk cut out of the trunk turned into woodchips. The axe lays nearby. This poster's text is in white outlined in black on either side of the tree. It advertises for a drama titled "The Holy of Holies", by Ion Druţă and directed by Peter Sodann.

• Landes Theater Halle/Revue/Zum staunen und lachen unt weiter-machen…

  Poster is divided vertically into three segments and printed in yellow, green, red and white. First section has red and white text at bottom describing what attendees will see during the evening (sadness, friendliness, smallness, etc.). Middle segment has "Revue" written in red with "to marvel and laugh and move on" written in space between letters. Third segment has text in red and whit written at top detailing the director, writer, stage manger, etc. Poster advertises a revue taking place at the Landes Theater Halle written by P. Sodann and directed by Peter Sodann.

• Rinaldo/Oper von G. F. Hændel/Musikalische Leitung Christian Kluttig Regie Peter Konwitschny Bühne Helmut Brade Kostüme Katrin Scholz/Landes Theater Halle

  Poster depicts a knight with raised sword and and black and red cape looking over a field littered with body parts (severed human head, arms, feet, etc.). Poster is printed in red, black and white. Text at top in black and white. Advertises for an opera titled "Rinaldo" from G. F. Hændel and directed by Peter Konwitschny.

• C. W. Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike

  This poster is black, depicting night sky. In the foreground in white with black lines is a depiction of two ghostly figures, one male one female, with the latter seemingly pulling back the former. The ground is littered with papers and trash. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for the opera "Orpheus and Eurydice".

• Das Pflicht Mandat (The Dock Brief)

  This poster is black with a cartoon depiction of the legs of a person wearing cropped black pants and sneakers, with ankles bound together by a yellow contraption. Near the top left is a barred window with yellow light. The title is in yellow at top with the remaining text in white on left and right. Poster advertises for a comedy titled "The Dock Brief", by John Mortimer, to be performed at the Landestheater Halle.

• Einie Nacht in Venedig Operette von Johann Strauss

  Poster is black with purple, black and white sihoutette of a man in a gondala with crescent moon overhead. Text in black on white below. Advertises for an operette titled "A Night in Venice", by Johann Strauss, to be performed at the Landes Theater Halle.