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The Dada Manifesto (French: Le Manifeste DaDa) is a short text written by Hugo Ball detailing the ideals underlying the Dadaist movement. It was presented at Zur Waag guildhall in Zürich at the first public Dada gathering on July 14, 1916. [1]
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 .
Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of the Dada art movement, founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916. It was founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings as a cabaret intended for artistic and political purposes. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp.
Hugo Ball recited the first Dada manifesto at Cabaret Voltaire on July 14, 1916. The second Dada manifesto was recited by Tristan Tzara at the Salle Meise on March 23, 1918, and published in Dada, No. 3 (Zurich, December 1918).
July 14 – Hugo Ball recites the Dada manifesto in Zürich. August 17 – English poet F. W. Harvey becomes a prisoner of war. September 10 – Wilfrid Gibson becomes the last of the Dymock poets to leave the area of Dymock in England. [5] October 6 – Romanian poet and critic Perpessicius loses his right arm while fighting in a skirmish at ...
Salonen wrote in the score program notes, "Soon I settled for perhaps the best known Dada poem (or 'Lautpoesie', 'Sound Poetry' as it was called) by Hugo Ball, the founder of Dada, author of the Dada Manifesto, and the central figure in all the activities of Cabaret Voltaire, the first forum of the early dadaists." [1]
Cabaret Voltaire was launched by the German writer Hugo Ball in Zürich [2] and appeared on 31 May 1916. [3] In the magazine Hugo Ball announced the opening of an artistic nightclub with the same name, Cabaret Voltaire. [2] The publisher of the magazine was Julius Heuberger. [4] Its size was 21.5 x 27 cm (8½ x 10½ inches), and it had thirty ...
July 14 – Hugo Ball recites the Dada manifesto in Zürich. Summer – Paul Strand experiments with 'straight' abstract photography at Twin Lakes (Connecticut). August 31 – Kestnergesellschaft founded in Hanover, Germany.