In his scathing polemic first published in 1919, philosopher, dramatist, and theatrical producer Ball (1886-1927) lays the blame for the German disaster of World War I at the feet of German philosophers. Luther, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, he says, together created a morally bankrupt modern ideology, isolated from democratic and liberal trends in western Europe and America, and steeped in traditions of dynastic absolutism and militarism. The notes and introduction are translated from the 1981 German edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Critique of the German Intelligentsia

History

BALL, HUGO

Europe

Columbia Univ. Pr.

In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images. The resulting "dialogue" between Ball, the founder of Zurich Dada, and Hammer, a contemporary artist, casts new light on Dadaism and its postmodern legacies. 
In Tenderenda, composed between 1914 and 1920, Ball recounts a hallucinatory tale of his own Dada enchantment and disenchantments. Jeffrey T. Schnapp introduces the book, elaborating the cultural and historical context of Ball's work and situating Hammer's work in relation to Dada. In a concluding essay, Hammer probes various aspects of Ball's asceticism, spirituality, and sexuality to arrive at a revisionist interpretation of Zurich Dada and the origins of modernism as well as postmodern art-making.

Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball's Tenderenda the Fantast

Literature & Fiction

Hammer, Jonathan

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Hugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. The sound poems and performance art by Ball and the other artists who gathered there were the beginnings of Dada. Ball's extraordinary diaries, one of the most significant products of the Dada movement, are here available in English in paperback for the first time, along with the original Dada manifesto and John Elderfield's critical introduction, revised and updated for the paperback edition, and a supplementary bibliography of Dada texts that have appeared since the 1974 hardcover edition of this book.

Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art)

Raimes, Ann

Elderfield,John

University of California Press

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Flight out of Time: 2 (The Documents of 20th-century art)

Arts & Photography

Viking Adult

The German contribution to the Dada movement ("DADA MEANS NOTHING!" proclaimed Tristan Tzara) as it unfolded in Zurich during the first World War is not widely known.This collection brings together three texts translated into English for the first time, which were essential for the very creation of the movement, and which influenced all its future developments in France, Germany, the USA and many other countries. 
Included is the only Dada novel, Tenderenda the Fantast, written by the movement’s founder Hugo Ball. sections of which he performed at the celebrated Cabaret Voltaire. It is partially a roman à clef recounting the birth of Dada and the author’s subsequent love-hate relationship with his monstrous creation, and yet is much more besides. Richard Huelsenbeck’s Fantastic Prayers was the first Dada poetry collection, and these precocious "Bruitist" poems clearly illustrate how the absurd elements in early Expressionism evolved into the bizarre eloquence of Dada. Finally, Walter Serner’s Last Loosening manifesto, the first major German manifesto written in Zurich, which provoked numerous brawls at its various performances and yet is hardly known. In fact it was the source for many of Tzara’s future literary provocations and seems to have been deliberately suppressed for this reason. 
Three vital texts from one of the most extraordinary manifestations of the avant-garde of this century.

Blago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fatakal: First Texts of German Dada (Anti-Classics of Dada)

Sterner, Walter

World Literature

Atlas Pr

Surrealism, Dadaism, Musique Concrète: Three Manifestos: With a Special Appendix by Marsden Hartley

Russolo, Luigi

BRETON, André

lulu.com

Flametti oder Vom Dandysmus der Armen Roman Hugo Ball

Flametti (German Edition)

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886–1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto," launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor, which would be published two years later. Drawing from his pre-Dada period of struggle and poverty in the vaudeville circuit, Ball immerses us in the rise and fall of Max Flametti and his vaudeville company. Fishing in the local river to feed his company, dabbling in drugs, strolling through the vegetable market on the Gemüsebrücke in Zurich, ducking into a side street to avoid running into the police, Flametti marches through the pages of Ball’s novel passionately pursuing a career that culminates in the presentation of the theatrical extravaganza The Indians at the Krokodil in Zürich (a locale that still exists today as a Spanish restaurant). Overcoming odds and alternately averting, succumbing to and embracing financial ruin, Flametti ultimately emerges as a tragic figure--a Willy Loman of vaudeville. Flametti portrays a frenetic Zurich that had been the backdrop to the Dada movement, and is comparable to other such literary cities and eras as Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin.

Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor

Wakefield Press

Flametti

Nimbus

Tenderenda der Phantast

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Wallstein Verlag GmbH

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