East German Poster Database

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• Heiner Muller- Leben Gundlings Friedrich von Preussen Lessings Schlaf Traum Schrei: ein Greuelmarchen / Regie: Strassburger/Hering / DDR Erstauffuhrung / Volksbühne

  This poster is black with the text arranged in a V -shape across it. In the background is an image of a face that is made up of black dots.

• Zeit der Wölfe/Plenzdorf/nach Aitmatow: Die Richtstatt - Regie Höchst

  Poster is gray with back and white painted "x" across center", with title in yellow on l-r axis and remaining text top left and bottom. Advertises for "Time of the Wolves" from Plenzdorf, directed by Höchst. Based on Aimatow's "Die Richstatt".

• Volksbühne/Spielplan/1980/81/Neu Inszenierungen/Heiner Müller/Der Bau/Nach Motiven von Erik Neutschs Roman "Supr der Steine"/Uraufführung/Reige: Fritz Marquardt/"Du bist der Bagger, und du bist der Baugrud, auf dich fällt der Stein, den du aufhebst, aus d

  Poster is white with black images and text (theater, dates, and words "premiere" in red). Divided into 2 x 6 segments. Advertises for the performance schedule of the Volksbühne for the year 1980-81, including performances "Der Bau" from Heiner Müller, "The Beaver Pelt" from Gerhart Hauptmann, "Twelfth Night" from William Shakespeare, and others.

• Gozzi/Volksbühne/Das Schöne Grüne Vögelchen

  Poster background is blue, with cut-out gray-scale photograph of architectural ruins at bottom. Matching cut-outs of birds in "v" shape above, colored in different styles of black and white, with one red. A man a yellow shirt is visible within the ruins. Text in white at bottom. Advertises for "The Beautiful Little Green Bird", from Gozzi.

• Das trünken Schiff/Regie: Castorf/Bühne: [illegible]/Volksbühne/Paul Zech

  Poster is a grayscale photograph of a couple embracing in an enclosed space with arches visible behind. Superimposed is a hand-drawn pink vine with reaches down and outlines the couple, along with black splotches and black text which appears painted with a brush. Advertise for "The Drunken Ship", directed by Castorf.

• Die Wildente/Volksbühne

  Poster background is grainy black and white photograph of indecipherable content. "Die Wilde" in black script on white in center, with letters appearing to have been cut out and pasted. Theater symbol bottom center. Advertises for "The Wild Duck".

• Stueck von Gerhard Winterlich ž fuer die Volksbuehne bearbeitet von Heiner Mueller und anderen/Horiztone/Mit Angelika Domroese Susanne Duellmann Marion van de Kamp Ursula Karusseit Wolfgang Lohse Wilfried Ortmann Helmut Strassburger Hans Teuscher Werner T

  Poster is off-white with text in black on random rectangular irridescent silver shapes outlined in black. Name of play in red outlined in black also on silver shapes. Advertises for the play from Gerhard Winterlich titled "Horizons".

• Bulgakowi/Tscherwinski/Volksbühne/Hundeherz

  Poster background is grayish white. Portrait of a bald female head lower left, comprised of collage of lines, numbers, and images. Different intersecting black lines throughout poster, with theater handwritten in black top right and title in black print on white top left and bottom right. Advertises for a performance of "Dog Heart", from Bulgakow and Tscherwinski.

• Victor Contreras/Der Falschspieler/Volksbühne

  Poster is mostly grayish beige with white near bottom. Depicts what could be construed as the black sihouette of a person's head from behind, with a large white patch and black smeared all over. In center is a black figure "102" of two men in athelietic outifts stretching. Human eye visible to the right. Text in black script. Advertises for a performance of VIctor Contrera's "The False Player".

• Tibor Déry/Fiktiver Report über ein Amerikanisches Pop-Festival/Collage der Volksbühne Berlin/Tibor Déry Fiktiver Report über ein Amerikanisches Pop-Festival/Karusseit ž Barthel ž Montag ž Beyer ž Rothert ž Schmitt ž Gysi ž Acker ž Hübchen ž Stegemann ž T

  Poster is white with large red "v" shape top center. Majority of text in black type-writer font. Title diagonal across center from bottom left to top right. Author top right and theater information bottom center. Remaining text in box bottom right. Advertises for a performance of Tibor Déry's "Fictitious Report about an American Pop Festival".

• Dei Räuber/Volksbühne

  Poster is a black and white copy of the frontpiece to Hobbe's Leviathan, with text superimposed in red at bottom. Advertises for a performance of Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers".