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A significant portion of the posters are for films produced outside the former Eastern Bloc, but they often promote socialist concepts or have socialist undertones.  For example, one of the posters advertises for \"Trading Places,\" an American film about two wealthy capitalists manipulating the marketplace and their downfall arranged by a homeless black man and a white former employee of the capitalists. Most of the films from other countries are from the former Soviet Union and other Commnist countries.   \n\t\t\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["These posters document the cinematic heritage of the DDR and represent the films through both abstract works and interpretations of scenes from the films. The posters range in size from 21 x 57.5 cm to 84 x 59.5 cm.  Although the posters date from 1947-1995, the majority fall between 1950 and 1990. 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The American obsession\nwith productivity and consumption drew the most bitter criticism from German observers.  \nInteresting to consider in this context is the\nperformance of \"Ein Yankee an König Artus' Hof\" (1982), a play adapted from\nMark Twain's novel \"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,\" in which the\nprotagonist's escalating disillusionment with technology is a prominent motif.\nEven though Fordism may have been grudgingly accepted in the GDR as necessary for economic growth and the ultimate progress of the state, the assimilation of America's cultural barbarism through media imports was fiercely\nresisted.  The state may have resisted America's cultural barbarism, but young\npeople did not. Attending productions of the American media was a chance for\nthem to distance themselves from their parents, from National Socialism, and\nfrom the failures of World War II.  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The works advertised on the posters are predominantly classics: plays by Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Georg Büchner, Shakespeare and Chekhov; operas by G. F. Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Puccini and Verdi, and ballets by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.  However, contemporary playwrights like Maxim Gorki, Heiner Müller and Peter Weiss are also represented.  Examples include posters from the Berliner Ensembles's premiere production of Bertolt Brecht's \"Mother Courage\"; Deutsche Theater Kammerspiele's \"Der Blaue Boll\" by the Expressionist playwright, Ernst Barlach; Landes Theatre Halle's cutting-edge production of \"Tamerlan\"; Ballet Company of Leipzig's historic performance of \"Bilder Der Liebe\"; and Maxim Gorki Theatre's \"Sinulja\" by Alexander Gelman.  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Examples include posters from the Berliner Ensembles's premiere production of Bertolt Brecht's \"Mother Courage\"; Deutsche Theater Kammerspiele's \"Der Blaue Boll\" by the Expressionist playwright, Ernst Barlach; Landes Theatre Halle's cutting-edge production of \"Tamerlan\"; Ballet Company of Leipzig's historic performance of \"Bilder Der Liebe\"; and Maxim Gorki Theatre's \"Sinulja\" by Alexander Gelman.  The majority of the posters consist of drawings or paintings that reflect the artist's interpretation of the works to be performed.\n\t\t"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThis series contains posters advertising theater, opera, concert and dance performances in Berlin and other East German cities.  This collection consists of 941 posters of various sizes.  They range \n\t\t\tin size from 28 x 58 cm to 86 x 60 cm.  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