East German Poster Database

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• Idomeneo/Oper von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Stadtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt.
  Poster is beige with black text, latin script at the bottom; shows charcoal drawing of a mask which is composed of two faces seen sideways.
• Idomeneo/Mozart/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin/Idomeneo:Eberhard Buchner;Idamantes:Uta Priew;Elektra:Magdalena Hajassyova;Ilia:Carola Nossek;Arbaces:Gunter Kurth;Operpriester:Henno Garduhn; Stimme des Orakels:Fritz Hubner/Musikalische Leitung:Peter Schreier;
  Poster is white with black text; the title of the opera takes up the bulk of the poster; each letter is in white on a black square.
• Saxa Loquuntur/Steine Reden/Ziegelsteinabreibungen vom Schulhof der Helmholtzschule in Potsdam - Manfred Butzmann 1985 - Druckerei Graetz
  Poster is black with white text, latin script at top with numberous names and birth/death dates below in varying styles of graffiti. Remaining text at bottom. Advertises for "The Rocks Speak" from the Helmholtz School in Potsdam, directed by Manfred Butzman.
• Wallensteins Lager/Die Piccolomini/Wallensteins Tod/Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
  Poster is white with bold black line segment center top and double black border at bottom. Text in black. Advertises for three performances: "Wallenstein's Beer", "The Piccolomin", and "Wallenstein's Death", to be performed at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.
• Christine Schorn Friedo Solter in/Zwei auf einer Bank/Alexander Gelman/Regie: Hellman/Bühne: Šramek
  Poster shows a bench in a park next to a blue [tie?]. Play directed by Hellman
• Der Zerbrochne Krug/Heinrich von Kleist/Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam Lustspiel
  Poster is a picture from behind of a judge sitting at a desk . Background is red and white gradient . Text at top in black caps and bottom in white caps. Advertises for "The Broken Jug" from Heinrich von Kleist.
• 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".
• Zar und Zimmerman/Komische Oper in drei Akten von Albert Lortzing/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is white with black architectural line drawings at bottom, various building tools in center, and a ship top right. Standing prominently in center is a solider in red and gold uniform, holding a mask which partially obscures his face.
• Mozart ž Die Zauberflöte/Theater der Stadt Cottbus
  Poster is irridescnent gold with abstract tree design superimposed in shades of brown, gray and olive. Text at bottom in gray italics. Advertises for performance of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute".
• E. Schikaneder/W.A. Mozart/Brandeburger Theater Die Zauberflöte
  Poster is black with watercolor depiction of two nude figures in an embrace, standing on tob of an orb with red and white background. Authorial information at left and right in white italics, remaining text at bottom in white. Poster advertises for performance of "The Magic Flute" from Mozart, conducted by E. Schikander
• Dario Fo/Zufälliger Tod eines Anarchisten/Kammerspiele
  Poster is black with 3 by 3 grid of silhouettes on sky background, numbered in upper left corner 1-9 from left to right. Bottom two squares are empty. Title at top in red with remaining text in white top and botom. Advertises for "Dario Fo", "The random death of an Anarchist".
• Albert Lortzing/Zar und Zimmerman in der Deutschen Staatsper Berlin
  Poster is yellow with double-headed eagle in black silhouette, modified with anthropomorphic faces. Left wears a white crown and holds a scepter, right wears a black hat and hods a measuring stick. Single red tulip superimposed at torso, with red ship behind. Texat at bottom in gothic, script, and caps (red and black). Advertises for "Zar and Zimmermanm", from Alebert Lortzing.
• 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.
• Yerma/Federico García Lorca ž Kammerspiele des Deutschen Theaters
  Poster background is what appears to be a concrete wall, with "Yerma" painted in red near bottom. Remaining text in black caps at bottom. Advertises for performance of "Yerma" from Federico García Lorca.
• Heiner Müller/I bis III/Wolokolamsker Chaussee/Regie: Castorf/Bühne: Narr/Kleist-Theater-Frankfurt (oder)-Nr. Erstatt 10. Probebühne
  Poster is an abstract depiction of a woman outlined in black and white, with background in red, orange, blue and green. Title at top in
• Die Weise von Lebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke/Eine Opernvision von Siegfried Matthus
  Poster depicts a rose on fire against a brown background, with text in lighter brown at right. Advertises for "The Example of Love and Death from the Cornets Christoph Rilke", an opera from Siegfried Matthus.
• 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.
• Tragische Dichtung von Federico Garcia Lorca/Yerma/DDR-Erstaufführung Regie: Winkelgrund Bühne: Heidenreich/Mit Paetzold, Albrecht, Leipert, Kreißig, Weißenborn, Becker, Hürrig, Puls u.a./Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam
  Poster is white with black texdt and title spray-painted in black in center. Border in red. Advertises for the tragedy "Yerma" from Federico Garcia Lorca, directed by Winkelgrund.
• Der Wett-Lauf zwischen Hase + Igel/Theater Senftenberg/von P. Ensikat
  Poster is a depiction of a rabbit in a red suit and red top hat, holding what appears to be an egg in his right hand. One either side sit two hedgehogs, one at left with an apple stuck on his quills. Advertises for "The Race Between Hare and Hedgehog", from P. Ensikat.
• Weiße Rose/Udo Zimmerman/Szenen für zwei Sänger und fünfzehn Instrumentalisten/DDR-Ring-Erstaufführung Premiere am 28.2.86/Inszenierung: Detlef Rogge/Musikalische Leitung: Manfred Hänsel
  Poster is a grayscale portrait of a woman with left half of her face shadowed. Text at bottom in black. Advertises for "White Rose", from Udo Zimmerman, "scenes for two singers and fifteen instrumentalists". Premiere in DDR.
• Tadeusz Róžewicz/Wejsse Ehe
  Poster is a black and white photograph of a man in a tiled room spattered with what could be blood and a second man behind him in a mask. Title in red on white tiop and bottom. Advertises for "Wejesse Marriage" from Tadeusz Róžewicz.
• Nina Sadur/Schauspiel Halle Neues Theater Landes Theater Halle/Das Wunder-Weib/DDR-Erstaufführung/Regie: Wladimir Tarasjanz
  Poster background is blue with white dots. Large globe at top left with continents in blue and ocenas in blue and white stripes. Text in black on white and blue on white at left. Bottom is bordered in red and black terrain with woman in blue dress and black boots standing at bottom right. Advertises for "The Wonder Woman" from Nina Sadur, directed by Vladimir Tarasjanz. Play's premiere in the DDR
• Nikolai Haitow/Wege/Kammerspiele/Darsteller: Bärbel Bolle Kurt Böwe Horst Lebinsky Martin Trettau/Inszenierung: Uwe-Detlev Jessen Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Hans-Helmut Müller Musik: Andreas Altenfelder
  Poster is white with pink-scale photograph in center of a snail shell on sand on pebbles. Title in pink superimposed with remaining text above and below. Advertises for "Paths" from Nikolai Haitow.
• Wir, die Endesunterzeichnenden/von A. Gelman
  Poster is mostly black, with depiction in center of a train window featuring two men sitting across from each other with hands raised while a third man looks on and behind a fourth speaks with the conductor. Tet in white below. Advertises for "We, the Undersigned" from Alexander Gelman.
• Maxim Gorki Theater/Urauffuhrung Rainer Kerndl/Wann kommt Erlicher?
  Poster is olive green with the title repeated in white forming a pyramid. Remaining text in red at top and left. Advertises for "When is the Honesty Coming?" from Rainer Kerndl. Play's premiere.