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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
— Hugo Ball
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Hugo Ball
translator, poet, theatrical director, writer, philosopher, playwright, actor, director, dramaturge
1886 – 1927
Hugo Ball 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", 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.