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Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball was a German author, poet, dramatist, and journalist, and one of the principal founders of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry. With the poet and cabaret performer Emmy Hennings, whom he later married, he founded the Cabaret Voltaire, around which the Zürich Dada group formed.
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entertainment · German author and poet (1886–1927) · translator · poet · theatre director · writer · philosopher · playwright · actor · director · dramaturge · also Hugo Ball, Ball
Born 22 February 1886 · Died 14 September 1927 · Q70989
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2016· 1 entry
Swiss Post issued a commemorative postage stamp reproducing the familiar 1916 photograph of Ball in his Cabaret Voltaire costume
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2012· 1 entry
By Australian composer Stephen Whittington, as an "anti-song cycle" of seventeen songs — one for each line of the poem, lasting approximately two minutes each
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1999· 1 entry
Bayerischer Rundfunk produced an adaptation of Flametti oder Vom Dandysmus der Armen, with a text adapted by Michael Farin, music and direction by Klaus Buhlert
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1948· 1 entry
And Hermann Hesse were later also buried there
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1927· 1 entry
Died 1927-09-14.
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1924· 1 entry
Under the title Die Folgen der Reformation ("The Consequences of the Reformation"), reflecting the increasingly Catholic interpretation of German and European history that he developed after 1920
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1920· 1 entry
Increasingly devoted himself to Christian mysticism, hagiography, theology, and the history of German intellectual culture
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1916· 3 entries
Ball wrote his poem "Karawane", a poem consisting of nonsensical words
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Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies of the past that claimed to possess the ultimate truth
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“to remind the world that there are people of independent minds – beyond war and nationalism – who live for different ideals.”
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1914· 1 entry
Intending to visit a wounded friend at Lunéville, he travelled toward the war zone and gained a direct impression of conditions near the front
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1910· 1 entry
Ball moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-02-22.
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