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Two Germanys, One Killer Poster Story
From the cool commercial polish of West German cinema advertising to the stranger, sharper edge of East German poster art, this collection captures one of the great split-screen stories in vintage film design. After the Second World War, Germany divided into West Germany and East Germany, creating two very different visual cultures that ran side by side from 1949 until reunification in 1990.
West German posters often leaned into bold typography, strong photography, pop colour and slick cinema glamour, while East German posters took a more artistic route: painterly, symbolic, surreal and sometimes wildly expressive. When Germany reunited in 1990, these two poster worlds became part of one shared design history, leaving behind a brilliant archive of cinema, politics, pop culture and pure poster attitude.
Explore our original German and East German film posters, from 1960s classics through to the final years of the GDR.
Read more about the history of German Poster Design in our article When Germany Split the Screen: West & East German Film Poster Design.
