Hugo Ball was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zurich in 1916.
12 Facts About Hugo Ball
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Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany, and was raised in a middle-class Catholic family.
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Hugo Ball studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg.
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In 1916, Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies of the past that claimed to possess the ultimate truth.
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Hugo Ball's companion and future wife, Emmy Hennings, was a member of Dada.
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Hugo Ball then worked for a short period as a journalist for Die Freie Zeitung in Bern.
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Hugo Ball contributed to the journal Hochland during this time.
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Hugo Ball began the process of revising his diaries from 1910 to 1921, which were later published under the title Die Flucht aus der Zeit.
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Hugo Ball died in Sant'Abbondio, Switzerland, of stomach cancer on 14 September 1927.
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Hugo Ball received a writing credit for the song on the track listing.
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In 2022, the Hugo Ball Award announced it would not be giving an award that year to winners Hito Steyerl and Olivia Werzel instead deciding to take a step back and rethink having an award named after someone who has a murky past with anti-semitism.
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Hugo Ball did the same, for example in his 1919 publication On the Critique of the German Intelligentsia.