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Hugo Ball (German:; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry.
Hugo Ball was a German-Swiss artist who co-founded the Dada movement with his partner Emmy Hennings in Zurich. He wrote sound poems, manifestos, and diaries that criticized the rationalized language and values of modernity.
- German-Swiss
- February 22, 1886
- Pirmasens, Germany
- September 14, 1927
Hugo Ball was a writer, actor, and dramatist, a harsh social critic, and an early critical biographer of German novelist Hermann Hesse (Hermann Hesse, sein Leben und sein Werk, 1927; “Hermann Hesse, His Life and His Work”). Ball studied sociology and philosophy at the Universities of Munich and.
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Mar 1, 2020 · Learn about Hugo Ball, a German artist who opened Cabaret Voltaire, a space that launched the Dada movement. Discover his sound poetry, manifesto, and religious conversion.
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Jul 8, 2016 · July 8, 2016. On July 14, 1916, the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement. Its name: Dada. Its aim: to “get rid of everything that smacks of journalism, worms, everything...
Hugo Ball (German: [bal]; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry.
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Hugo Ball was a writer and a leader of the Dada movement in Zurich. The Archive has his works, papers, and publications, as well as a selective bibliography and a digital library of Dada materials.