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🎭 Das Mündel will Vormund sein – 1971 – Original A1 Poster by F+R Grindler | Silkscreen | 84 × 59 cm | Germany
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🎭 Das Mündel will Vormund sein – 1971 – Original A1 Poster by F+R Grindler (Tübinger Zimmertheater, Germany)
Peter Handke at the Tübinger Zimmertheater (Kleines Haus) | West German photo‑conceptual stage graphics
Silkscreen (Siebdruck) | 84 × 59 cm | Germany
🎬 Introduction
A monumental, grainy close‑up of a cracked human thumb dominates the composition, the split nail operating as a quiet act of resistance. Set against a stark monochrome ground, the credits are specified in crisp reversed grotesk along the lower margin—clinical typography that the wounded nail gently subverts. At A1 scale, the image reads almost sculpturally; Domberger’s dense halftone and inky surface pull the photograph into the realm of object.
Created for Peter Handke’s Das Mündel will Vormund sein at the Zimmertheater’s Kleines Haus, F+R Grindler distills the play’s themes of authority and role inversion into a single bodily metaphor. The layout is severe and economical—large scale, minimal palette, disciplined hierarchy—yet charged with theatrical tension.
✨ Why It Matters
This poster sits at a high point of West German theater graphics, when small venues commissioned museum‑quality experiments. Domberger Siebdruck is renowned for ultra‑precise screens and saturated inks; their workshop elevated ephemeral theater advertising into design artifacts. Pasted publicly in 1971, surviving examples are comparatively scarce, and the explicit crediting of venue, printer, and designers offers clear provenance prized by collectors. Grindler’s cool, conceptual approach aligns with contemporaneous European currents privileging metaphor over narrative, making the piece resonate beyond Handke scholarship—appealing equally to collectors of photo‑conceptual poster design, German stage history, and high‑fidelity screenprint craft.
📐 Poster Details
- Year: 1971
- Country: Germany
- Size: 84 × 59 cm
- Format: DIN A1
- Studio / Publisher: Domberger Siebdruck; for Tübinger Zimmertheater (Kleines Haus)
- Designer: F+R Grindler
🔎 Condition
Very good vintage condition: no tape marks, pinholes, or tears; only minor edge wear from storage. Strong ink density and clean paper tone—presents crisply and frames beautifully.
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsBlack, WhiteMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight84 cmWidth59 cm
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Berlin, GermanyOn Whoppah since August 2023 • 12 sales