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Dada re-descends The 17th Annual Prague Writers’ Festival is Back in Town
Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire "Art is dead. Long live dada!" A good-bye to his hometown of Karlovy Vary, leaving the slaughter of the World War I behind, on his way to join Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire - Walter Serner, as well as another delegation consisting of three oriental looking men - Romanians Tristan Tzara and the Janco brothers. They were soon to become heart and soul of dada.
Adrian Notz: Dada East at Cabaret Voltaire Officially, Dada was born on the 5th of February when Hugo Ball and Emme Hennings opened the literary-artistic Cabaret Volatire in the restaurant Meierei at Spiegelgasse 1 in Zürich. In his journal “Flight out of time”, Hugo Ball describes this legendary opening night as follows:
Tom Sandqvist: A Word that Leads Ideas to the Hunt Dada - there you have a word that leads ideas to the hunt: every bourgeois is a little dramatist, he invents all sorts of speeches instead of putting the characters suitable to the quality of his intelligence. The first thought that comes to these people is bacteriological in character: to find its etymological, or at least its historical or psychological origin. Tristan Tzara, 1918
Tom Sandqvist: On Four Wheels {between Nyköping and Lid, Sweden}
Nyköping, 2006
Raya Zommer-Tal: Marcel Janco Marcel Janco was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1895. While still a child his artistic talent was revealed. His teacher, losif Iser gave him the groundings in classic art that were to influence his work throughout the years.
Marcel Janco talking about Dada Cursory accounts of the Dada movement are consistent in their claim that it was basically a literary enterprise, occurring in Zürich at the time of the First World War and founded by a group of dissenters dedicated to principles of negativism, destruction and anti-art.
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