Hugo Ball--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for...
Hugo Ball--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried i...
In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the -Dada Manifesto, - launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor, which would be published two years later. Drawing from his pre-Dada period of struggle and poverty in the vaudeville circuit, Ball immerses us in the rise and fall of Max Flametti and his vaudeville company. Fishing in the local river to feed his company, dabbling in drugs, strolling through the vegetable market on the...
In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the -Dada Manifesto, - launching what would become the Zurich Dada ...
In seinem 1919 verfassten Essay rechnet Hugo Ball mit deutschen Ideologien ab. Von Luther bis Bismarck, von Bakunin bis Marx beschaftigt er sich mit politischen und philosophischen Theorien und analysiert die Vorgeschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges. Hugo Ball (1886-1927) war Vertreter des Dadaismus, Dramaturg und Redakteur einer Zeitschrift fur Exilanten in der Schweiz wahrend des Ersten Weltkriegs. Er verfasste zahlreiche politische und theologische Schriften. Zur Kritik der deutschen Intelligenz] stellt meines Erachtens den grossartigsten, ehrlichsten und tiefsten Versuch Deutschlands dar,...
In seinem 1919 verfassten Essay rechnet Hugo Ball mit deutschen Ideologien ab. Von Luther bis Bismarck, von Bakunin bis Marx beschaftigt er sich mit p...