East German Poster Database

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• Die Verurteilung des Lukullus / Oper in 12 Akten von Bertolt Brecht and Paul Dessau / Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

  This poster is white with a bright blue edge around it. The text is in black letters in the top left corner. The other three corners of the poster have a large letter “L” that frames two branches of laurel, a couple of cherries and a knife and fork respectively. In the middle of the poster is a black sword with a blade that is covered in blood.

• Federico Garcia Lorca/Yerma/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

  Poster is a black and white skyline against red background. Text in black at top and bottom. Advertises for performance of "Yerma" by Federico Garcia Lorca.

• Der Mann von La Mancha/Musical von Leigh/Wasserman/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

  Poster is black and depicts abstract portrait of an man with a long beard and mustache, possibly wide-brimmed hat, in black white, blue and orange. Text in white top and bottom right. Advertises for the musical "The Man from La Mancha" from Leigh and Wasserman.

• Molière ž Herr von Pourceaugnac/Mecklenburgishces Staatstheater Schwerin

  Poster background is comprised of black and white dots that fade from black on white at top to white on black at cottom. Text in black on yellow at top. Depicts a man's head with gray wig with nose turned up and mouth open to reveal another white face inside. Advertises for Molière's "Man from Pourceaugnac".

• Die Fontäne von Bachtschissarai/Ballett in vier Akten/Musik von Boris Assafiew/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

  Poster features faded sepia portrait of a woman's face with hair pulled back. Below are three sepia photos outlined in black, one of a graveyard, one of a battlefield covered in corpses, and one of a different graveyard. Text in black top left and in black outline below and top right. Advertises for a performance of the ballet "The Fountain of Bachtschissarai" with music by Boris Assafiew.

• Fritz Reuter/Bühne/1926 1986/Wi swacken platt!/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin

  Poster depicts a beard edman in a black hat and glasses wearing a suit and bowtie with black and white vertical striped pants riding a stick horse. To the left is a much smaller woman seen from the back in traditional dress engrossed in a book and to the right is a clown in an Elizabethan collar and dress holding a flag with blue, yellow, and red stripes over his head. Canvas hanging behind reads "1926 1986/Wi swacken platt!" Remaining title top and bottom in white, advertises for "Stage" from Fritz Reuter".

• Entdeckungen/BauŸEntdeckungten/Marstall Kammerbühne/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin/Dem XI. Parteitag der SED Gewidmet…

  Poster background is blue with red lines forming a simple maze and white arrows of different styles pointing the way. Black and white geomenteric design in center behind what appears to be a red door frame. Title at top in white, red-shadowed text on white background reads "Discoveries" with subtitle underneath "Architectural Discoveries". Text in white script scattered over the poster lists different plays with directors. Poster advertises an event in celebration of the eleventh anniversary of the SED. Poster is in two parts.