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Hugo Ball
Sign in to saveGerman author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 22 February 1886
- Died
- 14 September 1927
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Zur Kritik der deutschen Intelligenz
- Surrealism, Dadaism, Musique Concrète : Three Manifestos
- Die Nase des Michelangelo - Tenderenda der Phantast - Ausgewählte Gedichte
- Hermann Hesse
- Hermann Hesse
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1886
- Active to
- 1927
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,509
- Total plays
- 7,757
Tags
Hugo Ball (1886-1927) was a german dadaist writer and poet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball) But it is also a swedish band of electronic pioneers. (www.hugoball.se) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Hugo+Ball">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- [13] Catalase in vitro
· 1984 · cited 21,308x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- Biological identifications through DNA barcodes
· 2003 · cited 10,511x
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Quotes
- “The war [World War 1.] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines.”
- “It is a mistake to believe in my presence.. .If I take a seat at a party, I can see, even from afar, that only a ghost is sitting there.”
- “Our cabaret 'Cabaret Voltaire' is a gesture.. .Every word that is spoken and sung here says at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.”
- “In these phonetic poems we the Dadaist artists totally renounce the language that journalism has abused and corrupted. We must return to the innermost alchemy of the word, we must even give up the word too, to keep for poetry its last and holiest refuge.”
- “We have now driven the plasticity of the word to the point where it can barely be surpassed.. .We have loaded the word with strengths and energies that have allowed us rediscover the evangelical concept of the 'word' (logos) as a magical complex image.”
- “I have examined myself carefully. I could never bid chaos welcome, blow up bridges, and do away with ideas. I am not an anarchist.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1886-02-22 ) 22 February 1886, Pirmasens , Germany
- Died
- 14 September 1927 (1927-09-14) (aged 41), Sant'Abbondio (Gentilino) , Switzerland
- Occupations
- Author poet
- Known for
- Poetry
- Movement
- Dada
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Hugo Ball, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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. His best known works include the "Dada Manifesto", the Dadaist nonsense poem "Karawane [sv]", the poetry collection 7 schizophrene Sonette, the edited diary Flight out of Time, the Christian anarchist polemic book Critique of the German Intelligentsia and the novels Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor and Tenderenda the Fantast.
Life and work
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