East German Poster Database

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• Buhss: Die Festung
  Poster is an abstract painting of a humanoid figure with white face and empty blue eyes, red lips and black garb floating amidst a geometric design In predominately blue, purple, red and black. Green corner bottom right has black and white text. Advertises for a performance titled "The Fortress".
• Ballett 88/Uraufführung/Bühnen der Stad Gera/Viel Beine - Viel Sinn/Einie Nacht Orpheus/Zwei Ballette von Inge Berg-Peters und Wolfgang Ranke Musik Bohuslav Marinu/Choreographie und Inszenierung Inge Berg-Peters Musikalische Leitung Michael Stolle/Bühnenb
  Poster is black with two black and white portraits of two middle-age men [?] with longer hair. Only left and right halves of faces are visible respectively, as they are bisected by a black rectangle with text depicted in white and blue. At bottom is the upside-down head of a Greek statue in black and white. Advertises for "Ballet 88" which features two performances: "Many Legs - Many Sins" and "A Night of Orpheus", both by Inge Berg-Peters.
• Schauspeil von Heinar Kipphardt/Bruder Eichmann/Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt
  Poster depicts a black chair on a red surface with shadow falling to bottom left corner. Behind chair is black paint in spray-painted pattern on white. Title at top in black. Advertises for a play by Heinar Kipphardt titled "Brother Eichmann".
• Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar/Eine tragische Komödie con Friedrich Dürrenmatt/Der Besuch der alten Dame
  Poster is white with black border and black text at bottom. Depicts a black and white painting of a nude female (headless) torso with feathered wings instead of arms. Advertises for the tragedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, "The Visit from Old Woman".
• Berjoksa/Palast der Republik/Großer Saal/Staatliches Akademisches Tanzensemble, UdSSR/Künstlerische Leitung: Mira Kolzowa Verdiente Künstlerin der RSFSR/26. bis 29. Oktober 1982/20.00 Uhr/Kartenvorverkauf: Ab 25.9.1982 an den kassen des PdR
  Poster is a black and white photo close-up of a line of female dancers queued perpendicular to bottom of poster. Title of performance, Berjoksa, in orange vertical at left. Beneath each letter is white text, giving details of dance performance. Performed by the State Academie Dance Ensemble of the USSR with artistic director Mira Kolzowa, to be perfromed from the 26th through the 19th of October at 8 pm.
• Modest Mussorgski/Boris Godunow/in der komischen Oper
  Poster is black with casual block text in yellow and white. Advertises for the comic opera "Boris Godunow" with Modest Mussorgski.
• La Bohéme/Puccini Giacosa Illica/An den Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg
  Poster depicts a window divided into six panes but centered on right three. Female eye is visible through top right pane with lips barely visible center right. The rest of her face is obscured. Poster has black border with title in white top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of "La Bohéme".
• Fritz Reuter/Bühne/1926 1986/Wi swacken platt!/Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin
  Poster depicts a beard edman in a black hat and glasses wearing a suit and bowtie with black and white vertical striped pants riding a stick horse. To the left is a much smaller woman seen from the back in traditional dress engrossed in a book and to the right is a clown in an Elizabethan collar and dress holding a flag with blue, yellow, and red stripes over his head. Canvas hanging behind reads "1926 1986/Wi swacken platt!" Remaining title top and bottom in white, advertises for "Stage" from Fritz Reuter".
• DT Pantomime-Ensemble/Blaubart/Fünf Burlesken in einem Speil von Burkhart Seidemann
  Poster is black and white, with an oval photograph of three bald female mimes in center wearing white robes and man behind looking down with a pair of open scissors in his right hand. Title at top and bottom white on black. Advertises for a performance of "Blaubart", fiver burlesques in one play, from Burkhart Seiemann, by the DT Pantomime Ensemble. Note: Poster is pasted to black cardstock.
• Bach-Händel-Schütz der DDR/V. Internationales Bachfest in Verbindung mit dem 60. Bachfest der Neuen Bachgesellschaft…
  Poster is white with irridescent gray border. Title at top navy at left and black at right. Text inside border divided into three columns, details events being held during the 5th International Bach Fest in conjunction with the 60th Bach Fest held by the New Bach Society and the Bach Handel and Schütz celebration of the DDR, from March 19th through March 27th, 1985.
• Bezahlt wird nicht!/Eine Farce von Dario Fo im Großen Haus der Volkstheaters Rostock/Inszenierung Hanns Anselm Pertern ž Ausstattung Falk von Wangelin
  Poster is black with white rectangle in center depicting two nearly identical women in profile facing left who appear pregnant. The one in fore is wearing a low-cut black outfit while the woman behind is wearing a similar outfit in orange. Cans of cat food appear to be falling from beneath their shirts. Title of performance in white at top with remaining text in black vertical at left and right inside borders of rectangle. Advertises for the farce "Will not pay!" from Dario Fo.
• Landes Theater Halle/Gerhart Hauptmann/Der Biberpelz
  Poster is white and depics black and white German military helmet probably dating to the Weimar Republic. Attached to the pointed decoration on top of the helmet is a flag with black, white and red horizontal stripes. Title at bottom in black, with black and white beaver above at left. Advertises for "The Beaver Pelt" from Gerhart Hauptmann.
• Sondergastspiel/Grosser Saal/Brasil Tropical/19. bis 24. Mai 1987/19.00 Uhr/23. Mai 1987 auch 15.00 Uhr…
  Depicts a woman wearing a leotard with yellow high heels and a large flower hat that is predominantly white with blue dots. Woman's face is without features except for her lips. Title diagonal in white caps across center advertises for "Brazil Tropical", a special performance from the 19th of May through the 24th at 7 pm.
• Lest mein Wort Hört meinen Schrei Folgt meiner Tat/Büchner/Musik Friedrich Schenker Libretto Klaus Harnisch UraufführungžDeutsche Staatsoper BerlinžApollo-Saal
  Poster is brown and depicts blurred brown-scale individual in tail coat, walking slightly hunched over with hands behind his back. Superimposed in gold script are the words "Read my words, hear my cry, follow my deeds". Remaindant text in white on black at bottom. Advertises for a performance of the opera "Büchner", starring Klaus Harnisch.
• Shakespeare/Die Beiden Veroneser/Rege: ZillmeržAusstattung: Leue
  Poster is white with black line drwaing of a storefront bottom center. Superimposed ar the outlines of two men in fedoras, in orange, who appear to be staning on a walkway leading toward the storefront. At top is a portrait of shakesperea in black and white. Text in black at top. Advertises for a performance of Shakepseare's "The Two Gentlemen from Verona", directed by Zillmer.
• Bewegung in Szene in Bewegung/Frank Z. (Ton) Joan A. (Musik) Claudia R. (Darstellung)/Roland S. (Kopie) Dietmar G. (Druck) Produktion B. Hoffmann/Picardie-Projekt I Uraufführung am 18. Dezember 17.00 Uhr "An der Picardie" Dresden/Speziellen Dank: Frau M.
  Poster background is yellow with pink cocentric cirles moving outward from a single dot in the right corner of a pink chair. Green shards of material appear to be flying out from the center, four have yellow text inscribed in them giving the names of people involved in the performance. Title of performance at top in blue and pink: "Motion in Scenes in Motion". Performance's Premiere.
• Euripides Die Besessenen Bakchai/DDR-Erstaufführung/Staatschauspiel Dresden
  Poster depicts a chain-link fence with a red high-heeled shoe caught in one of the links against a dark blue background speckled with red. Title in white on black top right, right vertical, and top left vertical. Advertises for a play titled "The Possessed Bakchai" from Euripides. DDR Premiere.
• Landestheater Halle/Vivaldi Bizet Lakomy/Ballettabend
  Poster is navy blue with white depiction of a posed ballet dancer. Behind are white outlines of the same dancer repeated twice. Text in white bottom right and bottom. Advertises for an "Evening of Ballet" featuring performances of works by Vivaldi, Bizet, and Lakomy
• Bläserquintett/der Mecklenburgischen Staatskapelle Schwerin/1958 1983
  Poster is black with circular design in gray in center: Circle has five lines of similar width except for fourth, which is thicker, emerging from left side and stretching across center. Lines bend outward toward top and bottom and stop before reaching right side. Text in gold and gray at top. Poster celebrates 25 years of the Mecklenburg State Orchestra's Wind Quintet in Schwerin.
• Landestheater Halle/Der Barbier von Sevilla/Rossini/Musikalische Leitung: Kuauff Regie: Schüler Bühne: Städter Kostüme: Steinhoff
  Poster features dotted outline of cupid on a pedastel with arrow raised in left hand. Pedestal inscribed at bottom with Rossini's name. Sign hanging around Cupid's foot gives name of opera, "The Barber from Seville". Remaining text in script at bottom. Light brown/dark brown decorative border.
• Bernada Albas Haus/Hans-Dieter Hosalia Béla Bartók/Ballett/Theater der Stadt Cottbus/Der Wunderbare Manderin
  Poster is black and divided horizontally. Top half features legs of five dancers in bluescale; bottom features the same dancers in redscale. Text at top, center, and bottom in gray. Advertises for two ballet peformances: Bernarda Alba's House, and the Wonderful Mandarin.
• Berliner Ensemble/Musik und Literatur Paul Heinz Dittrich Kammermusik VII Die Blinden nach Maurice Maeterlinck für fünf Sprecher, Bläserquintett und Cembalo/Christine Gloger Felicitas Ritsch Hans-Joachim Frank Peter Tepper Arno Wyzniewski Mitglieder der B
  Poster is pink with purple text. Advertises for music and literature from the Berliner Ensemble, featuring a performance of "The Blind" by Maurice Maeterlinck in five languages.
• Ballett '85/Bühnen der Stadt Gera/Tschaikowski: Dornröschens Erwachen Orff: Carmina Burana/Choreographie: Inge Berg-Peters
  Poster is black with grayscale photograph at bottom of a stage full of dancers in same pose leaning forward with arms behind them and left leg slightly elevated. Text in blue, white, and green at top. Advertises for a two ballets, Tschaikovski's "Sleeping Beauty" and Orff's "Carmina Burana", with choreography by Inge Berg-Peters.
• Mozart Bastien & Bastienne/Komische Oper in einen Akt/Theater der Bergarbeiter Senftenberg
  Poster is white with grayscale photograph of what appears to be a coral reef segment in center. Text in red at top right and bottom right. Advertises for the single act comic opera "Bastien & Bastienne" by Mozart.
• Kammeroper von Schenker/Mickel/Musikalische Leitung: Bahner/Regie: M. Dessau/Bühne: Neumann/Bettina/Theater im Palast
  Poster features abstract depiction of three asexual figures, two of which are partially submerged in what appears to be water and the third is walking on the surface. A Greek structure with four columns in gold is visible in backgroudn center right. Sky is depicted as gray with white stars and perhaps three black crescent moons. Text in scrawled black script on all sides. Advertises for the play "Bettina" directed by M. Dessau.