Edition Staeck Political Posters

PROF. CARSTENS REITET FÜR DEUTSCHLAND. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 84 x 60cm, yellow and black duotone lithographic poster showing Prof. Carstens (a CDU politician) who attacked Heinrich Boll for writing a novel under the name of Katharina Blum which supported terrorism. Only Blum had not done that but had written a novel about a woman called Katharina Blum (The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum) who was mistaken for a terrorist and punished both by the state and the general public. Staeck shows Cartsen's stupidty by the photomontage of him riding on a cow (a favourite Staeck image). VG+.

£45.00

AB 1.1.76 KÖNNEN SIE ENDLICH WÄHLEN: ZWISCHEN MIETERHÖHUNG UND KÜNDIGUNG. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 59.5 x 84cm, yellow and black offset lithograph poster showing refuse bins outside a terrace of flats and the warning that "From January 1st, 1976 you can finally choose: Between rent increase and eviction - This must be prevented, Berlin needs tenant protection as a permanent right.|" The statement comes from the Berlin rental association. Design by Staeck. VG+.

£45.00

WÄHLT KÖPPLER UND DAS GANZE JAHR IST ASCHERMITTWOCH. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 59.5 x 84cm, red and black offset lithograph poster showing the right wing politician Heinrich Köppler holding up a bunch of red tulips that have wilted at his touch. The text reads in English: "Choose Köppler and the whole year will be Ash Wednesday". VG+.

£45.00

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

ES LEBE § 218 – DER BEITRAG DES BUNDESVERFASSUNGSGERICHTS ZUM JAHR DER FRAU. 1975.

Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1975 84 x 59.5cm, yellow and black offset lithograph poster showing the Federal Minister of the Interior Ernst Benda in the clothes of the President of the Federal Constitutional Court and in the background a crucifix on the wall. Issued as part of the campaign against the abortion ban (§ 218) passed by the Bundestag in 1975. As usual the Catholic Church in Germany opposed a woman's right to choose. VG+.

£45.00

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

CHRISTDEMOKRATEN! EURE ZUKUNFT LIEGT IM CHAOS. 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 with a machine gun and Helmut Kohl with an umbrella, which he holds over himself and Strauss, both in a sewage duct. Strauss, had recently made a speech in which he argued that the SDP and the left would only have a chance of winning if the state and, above all, the state finances were in ruins. Chancellor candidate Kohl refused to disagree with this statement saying that he was not leaving Strauss out in the cold. Staeck parodies their support for each other with the slogan: "Christian Democrats! Your future lies in chaos". 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
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