The artist's name on the poster is not indicated. By assigning Artist Unknown to a poster it also could mean the artist used a chop mark whereby no signature is seen thus rendering the artist's identity anonymous.

VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb in German) is the acronym for "People's Enterprise", i.e., a government entity. The entities were nationalized companies and they sometimes were organized into combines. Management oversight was fixed at different levels such as the municipal, district, or the regional level. VEB was the authorized form of industrial enterprise in East Germany until 1990 when a dismantling of the nationalized industrial system commenced and a free-market system was introduced.

The Socialist Unity Party of Germany or, SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands), was the ruling party in the East German parliament. The nation of East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) or DDR, existed from 1949 to 1990.