East German Poster Database

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• Barby/Lustspiel von Rudi Strahl und Peter Hacks/Regie: Gisela Oechelhaeuser/Theater im Palast
  Poster is white and depicts cartoon drawing of a bearded man (vaguely resembles Marx) in black and gray, hunched over in profile. A red key sticks out from his back, begging to be wound. Text in black handwritten script top right advertising the play "Barby" from Peter Hacks and Rudi Strahl; vertical left director is Gisela Oechelhaeuser.
• Der Brester Frieden/Michail Schatrow/Allein die Titel der Arbeiten Lenins zeigen, wie hart der Kampf um der Brester Frieden war: "Über die revolutionäre Phrase" "Seltsames und Ungeheuerliches" "Wo steckt der Fehler?" "Frieden oder Krieg?"/Leipziger Theate
  Poster background is watermarked black and white photograph of a crowd of people. Title of performance in red, vertical along right, with director name underneath in black and name of theater vertical lower left in black. Remaindant text in black on green background top left, with black line above and below. Red star top left corner. Advertises for a performance of "The Brester Peace", in reference to the Union of Brest, the decison of the Church of Rus' to break with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the authority of the Pope. Text says that "The title alone of Lenin's works shows how hard the struggle was for the Brester Peace", and gives examples of "Of the Revolutionary Phrase", "Strange and Monstrous", "Where is the Mistake?" and "Peace or War?".
• Balletabend '82/Béla Bartók Der holzgeschnitze Prinz Choreographie: Hermann Rudolph/Boris Blacher der Mohr von Venedig Choreographie Inge Berg-Peters/Bühnen der Stadt Gera
  Poster is brown with stylized depiction of a black hand grasping a white hand, center right. Black border at top with white text. Advertises for an "Evening of Ballett" featuring "The Woodchip Prince" and "The Moor of Venice".
• Ballettabend '82- Béla Bartók: Der holzgeschnitze Prinz, Boris Blacher: der Mohr von Venedig - Bühnen der Stadt Gera
  This poster is pea green with a black, almost stick-figure depiction of a king with a yellow crown doing a handstand. The king's lower torso/legs form the negative space between two faces in profile looking at each other (in green). A black border is at the top with white text. This poster advertises for an "Evening of Ballet" featuring "The Woodchip Prince" and "The Moor of Venice".
• Ballettabend- Sinfonie in C/Carmen Suite: Georges Bizet, Joan from Zarissa: Werner Egk, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  This poster is white with slightly diagonal lines going vertical across poster. At the top is white text shadowed in black advertising an "Evening of Ballet", followed by a black line, followed by blue text advertising "Symphony in C", followed by a black line, followed by purple text advertising "Joan from Zarissa", followed by a black line, followed by orange-red text advertising the "Carmen Suite", followed by a black line, followed by white text shadowed in black with name of the theater.
• Amadeus: Peter Shaffer- Volkstheater Rostock
  This poster is red with a white silhouette in profile of Mozart in the center. The silhouette is overlaid with sheet music, and the bottom edge is depicted in flames. The text is in white at the top and bottom with blue gray text top left and bottom right. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amadeus" from Peter Shaffer.
• La Cenerentola: Rossini, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin- Aschenputtel
  This poster is a photograph of a white mask with nails that have been driven through in various places from behind. The mask rests face-up in the dirt, with a pair of feathered wings behind it. Below the mask is a large white feather, with a nest of eggs below that. Various other objects are scattered around. the poster features a white border with black text on all sides. It advertises for a performance of "Cinderella" from Rossini.
• Alfonso Sastre: Fantastische Tragödie von der Zigeunerin Celestina…oder Geschichte von Liebe und Zauber- samt einiger Zitate aus der berühmten Tragikomödie von Calisto und Melibea, DDR-Erstaufführung: Städtische Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt Schauspielhaus..
  This poster depicts two white abstract figures in center surrounded by radiant red and orange light. The poster background depicts various caricatured, evil-looking faces and skulls in brown-gray outlined in black, looking toward the two white figures. The text is in handwritten black script at bottom. This poster advertises for a tragedy from Alfonso Sastre titled "Celestina", a tale of love and magic about a Romani woman. this was the play's premiere in the DDR.
• Als es November 18 war- Es lebe die sozialistische Republik: Theater im Palais: Dichtung, Dokumente, Lieder, Sprüche zum 60. Jahrestag der Novemberrevolution- Es spielen Studenten der Staatlichen Schauspielschule Berlin
  This poster is a high-contrast, black and white depiction of a group of Soviet sailors. The title is in white superimposed at the bottom center, with partial text in separate red rectangle in red that states "The Socialist Republic Lives". This advertises for a performance titled "It was the 18th of November", including dictation, documents, songs, etc. celebrating the 60th anniversary of the November Revolution. It was performed by students of the Staatlichen Schauspeilschule Berlin.
• Alcina: Georg Friedrich Händel, Deutsches Staatsoper Berlin
  This poster is off-white with a gold and black depiction in center of an ornately carved, Rococo-esque table with a sculpture of a female, winged sphinx lying on top. The woman has a feather woven into her hair and her tail is a fanged snake. The text is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of Händel's opera "Alcina".
• Abrechnung: Wladimir Tendrjakow, Landesbühnen Sachsen Schauspiel
  This poster is black and depicts several floating, heavily shadowed white faces in profile devoid of features. One is facing left, while all others face right, is framed in a white rectangle and has a red star superimposed roughly where the visible eye would be. The text is in white at the bottom, underlined in white. This poster advertises for a performance of "Statement", from Wladimir Tenrjakow.
• Antigone, Sophokles »Antigone« - Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam
  This poster is black with large white print for play title and smaller print underneath for the remaining text. It depicts a black and white photograph of an aged, partially destroyed Greek statue of Antigone at bottom shadowed in red. This poster advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.
• Amphitryon: Komödie von Peter Hacks
  This poster is green with a shell-like mirror image in the center done in black like a blockprint. The text is in the negative space between the shell, and above and below the shell in black. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amphitryon" from Peter Hacks, directed by Friedo Solter and lists the actors and their parts at bottom. Finally, the border of the poster is in red.
• Der Aufstieg auf den Fudschijama von Tschingis Aimatow/Kaltai Muhameschanow: Landestheater Halle/Neues Theater, Regie: Prof. P. Förster a. G.
  This poster is white with a jagged horizontal line running across the center, representing the mountain range that has Fuji. A red slash is across the center of the line. The title is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a play titled "The Ascent of Mt. Fuji", by Aimatow and Muhamedshanow.
• Amadeus von Peter Shaffer: Kleist-Theater
  this poster is gray with white dots in the background and a centered grayscale portrait of Mozart, whose face is scratched out in black ink. The title is in white above and bottom left. This poster advertises for a play from Peter Shaffer titled "Amadeus".
• Allein mit allen: Alexander Gelman- Maxim Gorki Theater
  This poster is dark blue with black print that makes it hard to read. A large rectangle is centered on the poster and filled with black sponged ink; negative spaces form the profile of a man in a hard hat and two detached hands on either side. Within the profile are words such as "mensch [man]", "plan" and "pramie". This poster advertises for a play titled "Alone with All", from Alexander Gelman.
• Auf dich kommt es an nicht auf alle: Eine Aussenseiter-konferenz von Peter Ensikat und Wolfgang Schaller- Kabarett im Kino „Haus Stadt Weimar”
  This poster is white with black horizontal lines running across which bend upwards to form individual human heads, differentiated by hairstyle. Toward the center right one of these has morphed into a full torso colored in orange of a woman wearing a collared shirt. There is an orange border around the poster. The text is in black and orange near the top right, bottom left, and bottom. this poster advertises for a performance titled "To You, it doesn't Matter at All", from Peter Ensikat and Wolfgang Schaller.
• Peter Shaffer/Amadeus/Landes Theater Halle/Neues Theater/Regie: Peter Sodann
  Poster depicts Mozart from behind, holding a sheet of music behind his back, walking down an alleyway lined with brick (black and white). Above looms a black shadow in navy blue sky of a figure in a fedora. Text in black along left wall. Advertises for a play from Peter Shaffer titled "Amadeus", directed by Peter Sodann.
• Amphitryon/Musikalische Komödie von Rainer Kunad/Libretto von Ingo Zimmermann/Uraufführung/Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin
  Poster is white with black text at center top. Depicts two halves of a nude female form, left in color, right in silhouette, with the negative space between them forming the shape of a candlestick. Poster advertises for the musical comedy "Amphitryon", from Rainer Kunda. Play's premiere.
• Musical im Theater der Stadt Cottbus/Irving Berlin/Annie Get Your Gun/Schiesslos, Annie/Die Grösste Show
  Poster background is strongly Americana, with white stars on blue and red and white stripes. Features a portrait of Annie Oakley in oval in center, with title in Wild West-style script. Advertises for the American musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
• Ausnahmsweise: Komödie von Juri Winogradow, Bühnen der Stadt Magdeburg-Theater für Junge Zuschauer- DDR-Erstauffühurung
  This poster is white with a cartoon depiction of a Soviet soldier with blonde pigtails protruding from either side of his head fastened at the base by red hearts. Their right leg is lifted up displaying a red high-heeled shoe. This poster advertises for comedy performance titled "Exceptionally", from Juri Winogradow, and was the play's premiere in the DDR.
• Aci, Galatea e Polifemo von G. F. Haendel- (1708), Muiskalische Leitung: Ludwig Güttler, Inszenierung: Peter Konwitschny, Ausstattung: Helmut Brade, Virtuosi Saxoniae- Goethe-Theater Bad Lauchstädt
  This poster is white with a black line drawing of a woman sitting on the ground embraced by a man beneath a grove of trees. The poster is splattered with green paint throughout and woman's dress is splattered with neon red paint. The text is in black at the top. This poster advertises for a musical performance of Händel's "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" performed by the Virtuosi Saxoniae.
• Alexander: Oper von Friedrich Händel- Landestheater Halle
  This poster is light brown with an off-white depiction of a bust of Alexander the Great with female busts (perhaps relatives) on either side facing toward him. The text is in the same color at bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of the opera "Alexander" from Händel.
• Aloen: Athol Fugard- Kammerspiele
  This poster is green with a splattered black and white design. It depicts what could be construed as the red silhouette of an anthropomorphized tree, with root-like feet and leafy hair. The text is in handwritten white font. This poster advertises for a performance of Athol Fugard's "Aloen".
• Alexis Sorbas/(Zorba): Landestheater Halle Musical- Buch: Joseph Stein, Musik: John Kander, Gesangstexte: Fred Ebb
  This poster is white with a black painted depiction of two dancing zorbas, with black crisscrossed lines underneath. The title at top also painted in black, with red underlining. This poster advertises for a musical titled "Alexis Zorba" from Joseph Stein, based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis and music by John Kander.