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Most german concert posters have a size of 23 x 33 inches and were made for advertising pillars. The difference to their USA-counterpart is not only the bigger size but rather the fact that they were made for a whole tour (of usually 3 to 10 dates) and not from local promoter to local promoter. Since 1970 there is the possibility to buy some original concert posters in the vestibule before the concert but these mostly have no date or city imprin-ted. The condition in this field reaches from "near mint" (printers remainders) to "good" of posters that would have been teared off from the advertising pillars or board-fences. The design changed over the years. From outstanding graphic art (G. Kieser) of the late 60s to the early 70s to the more conventional marketing idea of "corporate idendity" where a enlarged record cover or the big portrait or live foto of the star made the whole design. Such artwork has to present the star worldwide and has to promote not only the single concert but rather his new record. Because every tour in the world had primarily the target to promote a new album.