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This poster is white with a corkboard in center, painted over in black with an abstract circle showing a horizon with repeating loops as the landscape. This poster advertises for "The True History of Ah Q according to Lu Xun" from Christoph Hein, directed by Alexander Lang.
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This poster is an abstract work in pastels featuring several exaggerated portraits, one crying blood with its head detached from its neck, one a witch, one appears to be a gargoyle, and a nude woman lying at the bottom. The title is at top in white, with the remaining text at the bottom in gold and white. This poster advertises for "Candide" with music by Leonard Bernstein, based on the book by Voltaire.
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This poster is black with a collage of images in upper left corner, including a dragon, a man wearing a leopard skin and carrying a club, and an old woman in red with exaggerated reptilian eye superimposed. The word "Siegfried" is superimposed in yellow, with "ngen" letters in gray caps at the bottom. The poster is possibly only half or quarter of the original. The remaining text is in white at the bottom right. This poster advertises for one of Wagner's operas involving Siegfried... possibly the Death of Siegfried or Siegfried's Idyll.
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This poster is a collage of black and white images of theater and city life, including costumed individuals, architecture, soldiers, performers, city workers, and newspapers. The background is red and black, with a black border with alternating red and white dots and a red inner border. The title at top is in red and white with the remaining text underneath in black and at the bottom in white. This poster advertises for the musical "Cabaret" from John van Druten and Christopher Isherwood, based on the book by Joe Masteroff.
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This poster is a black and white photograph of a river in a misty forest. The text at the left and center is in white and white gothic script outline in red. This poster advertises for "The Urfaust", or Goethe's Faust in its original form. Directed by Erhard Preuk.
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This poster is red with a white border, dominated by a purple anthropomorphic figure in a dancing position. The text is in white and purple at the top right and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the ballet "The Rite of Spring" from Igor Stravinsky.
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This poster is a depiction of Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in black and white on a grayish brown. Indecipherable text that is Da Vinci's own backwards writing in black forms a background above and below, with the title at bottom in white on black. This poster advertises for "Faust in Original Form", presumably based on Goethe's work.
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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.
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This poster's background is gray with a graphite drawing of presumably Faust, who appears to be being attacked by something with a severed head. Other visible objects are a mouth with forked tongue, bishop's hat, crown, and alchemist's circle. It is partially colored in purple, red, yellow, blue and white. This poster advertises for "The Tragic Tale of Life and Death of Doctor Faustus", from Christopher Marlowe.
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This poster is blue with a large depiction of a white, red, green and gray top decorated with red ribbon. The text is in white at the top. This poster advertises for the 17th Dance Fest of the DDR in Rudolstdat from June 30th through July 2nd 1989.
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This poster's background is grayscale gradient from white at top to black at bottom, with a grayscale cube in center. The title is in red at the top with remaining text at the bottom in white. This poster advertises for "The Trilogy of the Absurd", including "Foissy the Drip", "Beckett Comes and Goes", and "Ionesco the Nubile Girl".
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This poster is white with a black and white abstract depiction of a man smiling in a suit, reflected as a skeleton. The title is at the top in black with text at the left and right. This poster advertises for Handel's opera "Tamerlan", with musical direction by Christian Kluttig and starring Axel Köhler as Tamerlan.
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This poster is mostly in shades of brown. It depicts a sunrise/set over a water with hills on the horizon. The sunlight reflects down onto a drawn hand, burning the palm. The text is in white at top and bottom. This poster advertises for the ballet "Undine", staged and choreographed by György Vámos.
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This poster is a colored photograph of a house standing alone with a black dashed triangle superimposed and inverted toward house. A large tear or black blotch is in the top right, while the poster has a black border around it. The text is superimposed in black on white. This poster advertises for "Nina Nina Tam Kartina" from Werner Buhss.
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This poster's background is tan recycled paper, with a black border and holes at the top, with three large red "x"s below. The title is in black at the bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of Maxim Gorki's play "Summer Guests".
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This poster's background is brown. It depicts a faceless monster whose body shows a landscape of a small town, with the title inscribed over his face. The left half is dark with a horn, right side is light with a wing. This poster advertises for "The Blacksmith from Gent", a "large magic opera" from Charles de Coster.
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This poster is white with a yellow border. It depicts a soldier in a red and blue uniform marching with a guitar over his shoulder instead of a weapon. The text is in black script at the top. This poster advertises for "The Soldier and the Lighter", a "pop musical for children and people with heart to 85 years old, based on a fairytale from Hans Christian Andersen". The text is by Heinz-Martin Bendecke and music by Thomas Bürkholz, while directed by Radestock.
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This poster is white with an angel in one-shouldered tunic and black wings blowing a trumpet and carrying a broken sword. The title is in black script on the left left and top with the remaining text at the bottom. This poster advertises for "The Storm Journeyman" from Hermann Sudermann.
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This poster is black with white text at the top, left, and bottom. In the center is a depiction of a woman in overalls standing knee-deep in water, looking away from the viewer. This poster advertises for "Sinulja" from Alexander Gelman.
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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.
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This poster background is black. It depicts a girl with blonde pigtails and floral tutu-style dress in ballet pose, with the Nutcracker battling the Rat King below. This poster advertises for a performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker".
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This poster depicts a framed picture of a walled town, with a man bringing a woman over the left wall via a ladder. A dashed red line from left to right shows a man leaping forward toward the city at the left and a man holding a blindfolded woman at the right. At the bottom center a man and a woman are depicted in an embrace. This poster advertises for a performance of Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio".
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This poster is white with an abstract depiction of three individuals whose bodies form a conglomeration of furniture striped in blue and green. The faces are mostly blank, while the left individual is wearing purple sunglasses, the middle has a large red question mark, and right has orange lips with curly hair. All three have antennae emerging from their heads. This poster advertises for the comedy "Send Disorder" from Károly Szakonyi.
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This poster is white with a depiction in light purple and black of a group of people drawn in squiggly lines with shredded papers piled up at their feet. Dressed in black, the men are wearing hats. The text at the bottom is in black with the title in script. This poster advertises for Maxim Gorki's play "Summer Guests", directed by Peter Sodann.
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This poster is white with a green border on all sides but bottom, and with a red dotted inner border. The title is at the top in black caps, with remaining text in red and black around the poster edges. A large red circle in center with "v"s of white dots makes up the Volksbühne logo. This poster advertises for a performance of "Dario Fo" in the Volksbühne's Summer Theater program, starring Hildegard Alex and directed by Carl-Herman Risse. This was the play's premiere in the DDR.