East German Poster Database

Items

• Friedrich Engels

  Black and white photograph of Engels with brown Fraktur type superimposed.

• Niemals wieder!

  Poster depicts a photograph of a dove impaled on a short sword. The text reads "never again!"

• STOP!

  Poster depicts a black NATO rocket on a deep blue background with the word "STOP!" overhead in red.

• [Lenin and Marx]

  Stylized picture of Lenin pulling back his overcoat to reveal a shirt with Karl Marx's face on it, including dates indicating the 1983 centenary of Marx's death.

• stoppt die NATO-Raketenpläne

  Poster depicts a red fist punching through newspaper articles about NATO rockets. The text reads "stop NATO's rocket plans."

• Neue Ideen sind gefragt; Jugend macht erfinderisch

  This poster features an abstract geometric design consisting of of circles, straight lines and arrows. The text declares that new ideas are asked and young people are imaginative. The lines resemble a bicycle. Poster is a smaller copy of PL-0038.

• 60 Jahre UdSSR Fur Frieden und Kommunismus

  Poster is white with black letters and a red hammer and sickle. The poster celebrates the 60 year anniversary of the founding of the soviet union in 1922.

• Arbeiterklasse/Klassearbeiter

  Poster is black and white photo of a DDR worker with hardhat and clenched fist. First part of title in red superimposed across center reads "Working class". Second part in white center bottom reads "Class of Workers".

• Qualität geht jeden an

  Poster is light blue with cartoon faces of GDR workers crowded at bottom (e.g., nurses, chefs, policemen, aviators, miners, etc.) Title in black at top reads "Quality is everyone's [job]".

• Seine Ideen/unsere Praxis/Friedrich Engels 1820-1895

  Poster is a black and white portrait of Friedrich Engels. Title in black at top and red at bottom reads "His Ideas/Our Practice" with name and birth/death dates in red vertical on right.

• Ein Staat gestaltend sich zu einer Macht, die Frieden will und Frieden kann erzwingen - Ein Staat, auf aller Wohlergehn bedacht ein Raum für jeden, Großes zu vollbringen.

  Poster is navy with multi-color, different-sized text for title (specific colors are mint, white, and red). Bordered by text promoting the National Holiday of the DDR on October 7th. Title reads "A state is considered a creatively accomplish power that wants peace, and peace can not forced - a country to prosper needs room for everyone.

• Weg mit dem NATO-Raketenbeschluß!/STOP

  Poster is yellow with black silhouette at left of a rocket launcher with the front transformed into a gaping, teethed skull. Title in black at top reads "Away with the NATO Rocket Decision!/STOP".

• Wir gratülieren!

  Poster is watercolor drawing of three children; outside two are holding a banner with "30" written in flowers, whild middle child is holding a large DDR insignia. Title in red cursive at top reads "We congratulate [you]!" Yellow border. Poster is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the DDR.

• BROT statt tot/"Für Frieden und Humanismus, gegen die Gefahr eines Kernwaffenkrieges"

  Poster is a large color photgraph of a busher of wheat with small black and white photograph of a mushroom cloud in top right (shape is similar to bushel). Title in white at top reads "Bread instead of dead/'For peace and humanism against the danger of nuclear war'".

• Frieden für unsere Welt!

  Poster shows a girl cradling a globe with a dove on her right shoulder and two more in the air above her. Green background. Title in green at bottom reads "Peace for our world!". Box 1.