Edition Staeck Political Posters

MITBÜRGER! LESEN MACHT DUMM UND GEWALTTÄTIG. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 59.5 x 84cm, red and black offset lithograph poster showing a book by Heinrich Boll which cannot be opened due to screws in the covers. The text: "Fellow citizens! Reading makes you stupid and violent " is a parody of the actions of Der Beauftragte für den Gemeinschaftsfrieden (The Commissioner for Community Peace). VG+.

£45.00

WIR GARANTIEREN MEINUNGSVIELFALT DURCH AUSGEWOGENHEIT. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1976 59.5 x 84cm, black and yellow offset lithograph poster showing various right wing politicians posing as moderator of TV political programmes -  issued by Staeck on the occasion of a public debate on the balance between radio and television programmes. VG+.

£45.00

UND DER HAIFISCH DER HAT ZÄHNE. 1975. POSTER FOR THE THREEPENNY OPERA.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1976 59.5 x 84cm, black and red offset lithograph poster showing a man in tails with a top hat; his head consisting of two excavator shovels. Designed by Staeck this was issued for  for a new production of Bertold Brecht's The Threepenny Opera the Bremer Theater am Goethe-Platz. VG+.

£45.00

PEACE DOVES – 18.95 PAIR. 1975. POSTER FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1976 59.5 x 84cm, b/w silkscreen (less common for Staeck) on thicker crd than usual - a photo montage of two doves in a cage with the price tag of 18.95 per pair. A poster which was adopted by Amnesty International for their campaign against political prisoners. VG+.

£65.00

BESUCHT DAS SCHÖNE HEIDELBERG – BEKANNT FÜR SEINE STRASSEN UND PLÄTZE. 1976.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 59.5 x 84cm, full colour offset lithograph poster showing a photo montage of the demolition of the Kuno-Fischer-Haus but placed within the city of Heidelberg Tourist Board's branded framing for adverts and a bright sunset sky. Issued by Staeck on the occasion of the Year of the European Monument Protection (Anlässlich des europäischen Denkmalschutzjahres). VG+.

£45.00

BERGKAMENER BILDERBASAR. 1975.

Gottingen: Edition Staeck, 1975 59.5 x 84cm, four colour (yellow, green, black and red) silkscreen print on thicker card than Staeck usually utilised showing a photo montage of roaring stags in front of a polluting factory and in a golden frame. The stag being a symbol of Germany this was issued for the "Bergkamen picture bazaar" as an artwork rather than just propaganda. VG+.

£65.00

FÜR MEHR SAUBERKEIT IM DEUTSCHEN SAUSTALL: DIE CDU TUT MEHR FÜR DIE SCHWEINE. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 84 x 59.5cm, yellow, red and black on white offset lithograph poster showing a photo montage of Franz Josef Strauss as a farmer with pigs. Strauss said during the 1974 state election campaign in North Rhine-Westphaliathat "the politicians who set out to reform this state in 1969 [...] had made an unparalleled mess". Staeck created this attack poster as a retort. VG+.

£45.00

IN CHILE SIND DIE MENSCHENRECHTE IN DEN BESTEN FOLTERHÄNDEN. 1976.

Berlin: Edition Staeck, 1976 84 x 59.5cm, red and black offset exhibition poster with an image of the Chilian military threatening civilians and the text: "IN CHILE SIND DIE MENSCHENRECHTE IN DEN BESTEN FOLTERHÄNDEN" - "IN CHILE, HUMAN RIGHTS ARE IN THE HANDS OF TORTURERS". VG+.

£40.00

AUF EIGENTUM KOMMT ES NICHT AN. 1976.

Berlin: Edition Staeck, 1976 84 x 59.5cm, black on white offset poster with an image of a Staeck protest poster having been ripped up presumably by the right. The text below says that "On March 30, 1976, during a Staeck exhibition in the Bonn Parliamentary Society, members of the Bundestag from the CDU/CSU tore posters from the walls and destroyed them." VG+.

£40.00

FREIHEIT ODER SOZIALISMUS KAMERADEN! – DER LETZTE MANN. 1976.

Berlin: Edition Staeck, 1976 84 x 59.5cm, full colour offset exhibition poster with a reproduction of a war painting from the First World War, showing a marine, defiantly holding up the imperial war flag against an enemy warship, at the railing of his sinking ship, which has been sunk. An appropriation of a known image used by Staeck to promote socialism. The text reads: "FREIHEIT ODER SOZIALISMUS KAMERADEN! - DER LETZTE MANN" which translates to "FREEDOM OR SOCIALISM COMRADES! - THE LAST MAN. VG+.

£40.00

“JEDER ZWEITE ABGEORDNETE IST EINE FRAU”. 1976.

Berlin: Edition Staeck, 1976 84 x 59.5cm, yellow and black on white poster with an image from the German Parliament and overprinted on the image which shows only male parliamentarians is a text: "EVERY SECOND MP IS A WOMAN" which is plainly untrue. VG+.

£40.00

DIE SICHERHEITSPOLITIK DER CSU/CDU IST FEST IM DEUTSCHEN BODEN VERWURZELT. 1976.

Berlin: Edition Staeck, 1976 84 x 59.5cm, full colour poster with an image of the wreckage of an airplane with the Reich Cross painted on it and a bloodstain stuck in the ground after a crash along side it is a text "The security policy of the CSU/CDU is firmly rooted in German soil" with Staeck comparing the CDU to the Nazis. VG+.

£40.00

DIE GIBT DER ZAHNARZT SEINER FAMILIE. 1976.

Berlin: Edition Staeck, 1977 84 x 59.5cm, full colour poster with an image of a pair of pliers (supposedly as used by dentists) and a title "DIE GIBT DER ZAHNARZT SEINER FAMILIE" - "THAT THE DENTIST USES ON HIS FAMILY". An anti-advertising poster apparently. VG+.

£40.00

DIE MAUER MUSS WEG. 1976.

Heidelberg: Klaus Staeck, 1978 84 x 59.5cm, full colour offset poster with a headline: "DIE MAUER MUSS WEG." /THE WALL MUST GO! Published two years before the Berlin Wall was pulled down by the German people. VG+.

£40.00

FREIHEIT ODER SOZIALISMUS KAMERADEN! 1976.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 59.5 x 84cm, red and black offset lithograph poster showing Nazi soldiers and a quote from State President Dr. Helmuth Lemke (CDU), "Freedom or socialism comrades!" Lemke's had a National Socialist past and this poster was an attack on him by Staeck to remind people he had been a Nazi. VG+.

£45.00

ALTERNATIVE ’76 CDU – SICHER IN DIE 50ER JAHRE. 1976.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1976 59.5 x 84cm, full colour offset lithograph poster showing a Steack photo montage of Franz Josef Strauss standing in front of a car without wheels and Helmut Kohl sitting inside. The slogan suggests they are living back in the 50s. A political attack poster which originally appeared as a cover monthly members' magazine of the SPD. VG+.

£45.00

RUF DOCH MAL AN! 1977.

Heidelberg: Klaus Staeck, 1977 84 x 59.5cm, black and yellow poster to with a graphic image of a tick and the text: "RUF DOCH MAL AN!" The tick is a symbol of spying in Germany (a spy is a tick) and this is a condemnation of the government tapping telephones which was revealed in a public scandal. VG+.

£40.00
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