East German Poster Database

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• Uraufführung/Weitere Aussichten/Franz Xaver Kroetz Lena Foelbach/Jahresringe/Städtische Theater Karl Marx Stadt

  Poster is blue-scale photograph of two hands clasped together, with text in white above and below. Advertises for the premiere of "Other Views" from Franz Xaver Kroetz and "Growth Ring" from Lena Foelbach.

• Die Steinerne Blume: Ballett von Sergej Prokofjew- Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt

  This poster is a painted depiction of what appears to be a cave, with an opening showing a starburst in center in yellow and green. The cave's colored in reds and browns. The text at the bottom is in white. This poster advertises for "The Star Flower", a ballet from Sergey Prokofiev.

• Städtsiche Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt- Sende störing: Komödie von Károly Szakonyi

  This poster is white with the text in black at the top. Below is an anthropomorphized television in yellow and black, with a screen head on a suited body. The screen depicts a family whose faces are nothing but repeating lines in various patterns. This poster advertises for the comedy "Send Disorder" from Károly Szakonyi.

• DDR Erstaufführung- Der unbekannte Soldat: Oper von Kyrill Moltschanow, Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt

  This poster is green with a green scale photograph of a boy in a scarf in the top right and a handwritten letter at the bottom. The text is in white and red at the top center. This poster advertises for "The Unknown Soldier", an opera from Kyrill Moltschanow.

• Volker Braun: Hinze und Kunze- Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt

  This poster is beige with a black wood block print at bottom of two men. The one on the right has his arm around the one at left and is pointing right, while the one at the left is looking up and raising his hand to the sun. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for the premiere of "Dick and Harry" from Volker Braun.

• Alfonso Sastre: Fantastische Tragödie von der Zigeunerin Celestina…oder Geschichte von Liebe und Zauber- samt einiger Zitate aus der berühmten Tragikomödie von Calisto und Melibea, DDR-Erstaufführung: Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt Schauspielhaus..

  This poster depicts two white abstract figures in center surrounded by radiant red and orange light. The poster background depicts various caricatured, evil-looking faces and skulls in brown-gray outlined in black, looking toward the two white figures. The text is in handwritten black script at bottom. This poster advertises for a tragedy from Alfonso Sastre titled "Celestina", a tale of love and magic about a Romani woman. this was the play's premiere in the DDR.

• Aus einem Totenhaus: Oper von Leoš Janáček- Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt

  This poster is dark gray and depicts a black silhouette of a large bird flying past a yellow moon. Small silhouettes of hills are in black at the bottom. The text is in black with black borders in a white rectangle at the bottom center. It advertises for an opera titled "House of the Dead", from Leoš Janáček.

• Der Aufstieg auf Den Fudschijama: Aimatow- Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt

  This poster is gray with an iridescent gold trapezoid in center representing Mt. Fuji. Red horizontal lines bend upward and follow trapezoid shape almost to its top. A halo of smoke sits above the trapezoid. The text is in black on the left, right, and bottom. This poster advertises for a play titled "The Ascent of Mt. Fuji", by Aimatow and Muhamedshanow.

• Shakespeare: Romeo und Julia- Städtische Theater, Karl-Marx-Stadt

  This poster is black with white text bordering all sides (Romeo und Julia are opposite each other in larger text left and right). A stylized red flame in in the center. This poster advertises for a performance of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare.

• Peer Gynt: Oper von Werner Egk- Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt

  this poster is an abstract depiction of storm on a face, in mainly blues, blacks, and greens. The title is in White and aqua at top. This poster advertises for the opera "Peer Gynt", from Werner Egk, based on the work of Henrik Ibsen.

• Einzug ins Schloss Komödie von Rolf Schneider

  Poster is white with blue border. Depicts a town of white buildings with red roofs at bottom on a blue brick hill, with a type of pine tree growing on either side. Text in black at top. Advertises for a comedy titled "Collection in the Castle", from Rolf Schneider, to be performed at the Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt.

• Eugen Onegin- Peter I. Tschaikowski

  This poster is black and white, featuring partial image of a man covering his face with his hand fractured into squares. The poster advertises for Eugen Onegin, and opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest. Based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.