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.

Feb 18, 2025 · 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”).

Mar 1, 2020 · Hugo Ball: Founder of The Dada Movement. Hugo Ball was a German artist who focused his creativity on performing arts. He opened Cabaret Voltaire a performing arts space that became, essentially, the beginnings of the Dada movement.

Summary of Hugo Ball. Hugo Ball's major contribution as leader and co-founder along with his girlfriend, cabaret performer, Emmy Hennings, of the Dada movement, was to articulate the collective's radical nihilistic and iconoclastic ideology. It was this first group in Zurich that spawned important international offshoots in Paris, Berlin, and ...

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.

German writer and performer, leading figure in the Dada movement. After studying German literature, history, and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg, Hugo Ball enrolled at the Max Reinhardt (1873–1943) school for stage design and …

Hugo Ball . Born 22 February 1886 in Pirmasens, Germany. Died 14 September 1927 in San't Abbondio (Ticino), Switzerland. Writer associated with the Dada movement in Zurich. The International Dada Archive has extensive holdings of works by and about Ball.