-
This poster is black with a cartoon of the three musketeers inside a spurred boot. The title in white medieval script at top with remaining text near the bottom in handwritten script. The poster advertises for the ballet "The Three Muskateers" to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
-
This poster is white with black border on left and right sides. It features a black and white photograph of Don Quixote on the shoulders of Sancho Panza. The poster advertises for a small play by the DT Pantomime Ensemble titled "Don Quichote in Murzeledo".
-
This poster is white with black type at top and bottom. The title of performance is in the center is in red. It advertises for an opera by Giuseppe Verdi titled "Don Carlos", to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
-
This poster is divided lengthwise into by dark blue-green outer border and lighter inner borders. In left half poster depicts an abstracted dancing with the title "Triptychon" and in the left a woman is sitting on a man's shoulders with the title "La Mer". This poster advertises for three new comic strips.
-
This poster is beige with flowered border on left side. It depicts a portrait of Sleeping Beauty with antique effect. Cut-out flowers and bubbles scattered across the poster. Poster advertises for the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" by Tschaikovski, to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
-
The poster is white with brown type. This advertises for an opera by Mozart titled "Don Giovanni", to be performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin.
-
This poster shows a person with three torsos dressed similarly - the center is standing upright and adjusting a hat, the other two are bent over, the left holding an envelope and the right dangling a sign that tells the theater the play is to be performed in (Landes Theater Halle). The poster advertises for a comedy by Carlo Goldoni titled "The Two-part Servant Men".
-
The poster is a green portrait of a woman in a hat from behind. The theater title is in white top left corner, with remaining title in black at bottom. Poster advertises for a drama titled "Three Sisters" by Russian dramatist Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, to performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater.
-
The poster shows a red grid with a graph drawn out. Inside the graph is an angle with two circles. Together they form the shape of a heart. The graph paper is torn away at the top right corner to reveal a red circles and leaves behind. Poster advertises for "A New Summer Night's Dream", a dance performance by Bernd Köllinger and Georg Katzer, to be performed at the Volkstheater Rostock.
-
This poster depicts an abstract cityscape made entirely of lines in black and white. Superimposed is title in pink. The theater director is Lorrain Hansberry and the fact of its German premier printed in white on black rectangles. The poster states this is the performance's premier in Germany.
-
This poster abstractly depicts two men in kerchiefs; the one on the right is a torso cut-out with a cow on his head. The one on the left is outfitted in an apron and is pointing to the cut-out with his tongue sticking out. To the right of the cut-out in the background a clown is laughing at the cow. Title of the play advertised is purposefully misspelled, and is probably "Ein Mannsminsch macht die Hauswirtschaft," referring to a man performing housework.
-
This poster has a black and white background depicting a horizon with clouds. Superimposed is a brown castle with red statue in foreground. The title is in black at the top. The poster advertises for the opera "A Masked Ball" by Giuseppe Verdi.
-
This poster is white with black text. It depicts a black orb (earth in silhouette) with the sun (abstracted) rising behind. The poster advertises for a three act opera by Paul Dessau titled Einstein, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.
-
This poster is black and white, featuring partial image of a man covering his face with his hand fractured into squares. The poster advertises for Eugen Onegin, and opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest. Based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.
-
This poster is blue with green and red "X" shaped design. The text in aqua advertises for a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Theater der Stadt Cottbus.
-
This poster is purple with white text and depicts a cut out of Sherlock Holmes in profile with hat, trench coat, and scarf in yellow plaid and pipe and case in brown. The title text rises from pipe as smoke. This poster advertises for a musical by Jürgen Degenhardt and Gert Natschinski titled "Inspiration for Sherlock Holmes".
-
This poster is black in center and fades to gray at top and bottom with white border. The poster depicts a stage with red background and Puck as a donkey in center. The text in black and white reads "A Summer Night's Dream/by William Shakespeare". Directed by Lang with stage by Troike.
-
This poster is blue with text printed in black on darker blue background. A partial orange border is on the left and bottom. The poster depicts two white silhouettes, male and female (presumably Adam and Eve), with the shadow of the woman falling on the ground as a sort of werewolf. The poster advertises a ballet titled "The Creation of the World" by N.D. Kassatkina and W.J. Wassiljow, with music by A.P. Petrow. The ballet to be performed at the Theater der Stadt Cottbus.
-
The poster is beige with black text and black line drawing depicting a conglomeration of scenes from the play "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Prominent in the depiction are King Arthur seated on his throne, a bishop, the head of the Statue of Liberty, and two cannons pointing left. The play was written by Claus Hammel, directed by Hans Anselm Perten, with equipment by Falk von Wangelin. Performed in Volkstheater Rostock.
-
This poster is black with a red border on all sides but top, which has a white border. The text in white and red. This poster advertises for a a composition by the German composer Hans Werner Henze. It is subtitled "The autobiography of the runaway slave Esteban Montejo", and is based around the autobiographical passages recounted by Montejo to Miguel Barnet in 1963. The score is a recital for four musicians, consisting of a baritone who portrays El Cimarron, a guitarist, a flutist and a percussionist. The poster states this is the concert's performance's premier in the DDR.
-
This poster is black with white text. Most of text at top is of the title of play in large text in center vertical and broken in manner of a building toppled by an earthquake. The poster advertises for an opera titled "The Earthquake in Chile" based on a novella written by Heinrich von Kleist and adapted for the stage by Jan Cikker. Sponsored by the Städtische Bühnen Erfurt, this performance was the opera's premier in the DDR.
-
This poster is brown and yellow with a high contrast grain, featuring the corner of a table with a candlestick recently put out (smoking) and a crumpled handwritten letter. What appears to be a dead rose is visible underneath the paper. The poster advertises for Eugen Onegin, and opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest. Based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.
-
This poster is black and white. It features a silhouette of an unidentified individual with hand-sketched sheet music, ink well, knife, and writing behind. the poster advertises for a three act opera by Paul Dessau titled Einstein, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.
-
This poster is a muddled yellow, black and white. It features abstract art like that of a woodblock print, of two individuals sitting back to back and looking over their shoulders at each other on a shared table with a dog between them. The poster advertises for a play by Slawomir Mrozek titled The Émigrés, to be performed at the German National Theater in Weimar.
-
This poster is blue with a silhouetted, anthropomorphized bush in center. A crescent moon is shown behind the bush to give the illusion of horns. The poster advertises for an opera adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten, to be performed at the Leipzig Opera House.