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Der Streik der Diebe
The thieves of the city down tools, and nobody is sure who to call.
What
A German lithographed film placard of 1921 designed by Walter Riemer, surviving in the collection of the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin.
Why
Weimar cinema's fantastic register and its criminal register were the same industry, staffed by the same designers and served by the same printing houses. Sheets like this one show the everyday commercial ground out of which the famous horror campaigns rose.
Notice
This is by a wide margin the highest-resolution sheet in the group. The scan resolves the individual lithographic dots and the weave of the paper stock itself.
“An ordinary night's advertising, preserved with extraordinary care.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Der Streik der Diebe (1921)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Walter Riemer
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1921
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
From The Haunted Screen
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The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family