Berlin
After its birth in Zürich, Dada spread to German speaking cities. Dadaists were active mainly in Berlin, Hanover, Cologne and also in Amsterdam.
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Featuring Berlin Berlin, unlike Zurich in neutral Switzerland, felt the full impact World War I, and the devastating years that followed the war laid the groundwork for a Dada movement that was more aggressive and politically motivated than its counterparts in Zurich or Paris. |
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IK Bonset: Manifesto Dedicated to the uneven, floating temperature of Dada |
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Raoul Hausmann: DADA in Europe Now understand, dear reader – it’s the didactic who knows best what DADA is. You see, dada was invented by three men: Huelsenbeck, Ball and Tzara. At first dada meant nothing, just four letters, and they decided its international character. |
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Theo Van Doesburg: Dadaism Dada forms itself. Dada was born from resistance to what humanity has for centuries developed as important and valuable for life. Speechless and without any systematically formed conviction, this resistance expressed itself in some or other senseless behaviour. |
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Join Dada Dada has so far resisted taking on member, but, in view of the strains of bustling city life in our time, we can no longer turn a blind eye to the exceeding gravity of the situation that called our movement into existence, and the notion of providing, within the bosom of the Dadaist society, comfort to the uncertain and support to the weak rose up most forcefully before us. |
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Richard Huelsenbeck: En Avant Dada: A History of Dadaism (1920) Dada was founded in Zurich in the spring of 1916 by Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck at the Cabaret Voltaire, a little bar where Hugo Ball and his friend Emmy Hennings had set up a miniature variety show, in which all of us were very active. |
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