Emmy Hennings
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 Emmy Hennings, Zürich, c.1916. Photo: Hanns Noldt. [6] | |
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Emmy Hennings (born Emma Maria Cordsen, 17 January 1885, Flensburg – 10 August 1948, Sorengo near Lugano) was a writer, actress and performer. She is one of the founders of the Dada movement.
Portraits
Emmy Hennings, Munich, c.1912. [1]
Annemie Hennings, Hugo Ball and Emmy Ball-Hennings in Sorengo, 1926. [2]
Emmy Hennings, Lugano, c.1930. [3]
Emmy Hennings, Lugano, c.1935. Photo: Brunel. [4]
Emmy Hennings, Tessin, c.1945. [5]
Writings, publications
- Die letzte Freude. Gedichte, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1913, 15 pp, KHZ, IDA. (German)
- La Última alegría, ed. José Antonio Sarmiento, trans. José Luis Reina Palazón, Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2018, 498 pp. (Spanish)
- Gefängnis, Berlin: Erich Reiss, 1919. (German)
- Cárcel; seguido del poemario Estrofas del éter, trans. Fernando González Viñas, Sevilla: El Paseo, 2018, 174+[16] pp. (Spanish)
- Prigione, trans. Marco Federici Solari, Rome: L'Orma, 2019, 158 pp. (Italian)
- Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch, Berlin: Erich Reiß Verlag, 1920, 326 pp, KHZ, IDA. Diary. (German)
- El estigma: un diario, trans. & notes Fernando González Viñas, Sevilla: El Paseo, 2019, 282 pp. (Spanish)
- Hugo Balls Weg zu Gott: ein Buch der Erinnerung, Munich: Josef Kösel, 1931, 189 pp. (German)
- Das flüchtige Spiel. Wege und Umwege einer Frau, Einsiedeln, Cologne: Benziger, 1940, 288 pp; repr., Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988, 187 pp. (German)
- Helga speelt het leven, Tilburg: Bergmans, 1946, 282 pp. (Dutch)
- Ruf und Echo: mein Leben mit Hugo Ball, Einsiedeln: Benziger, 1953, 291 pp. (German)
- Emmy Hennings Dada, eds. Christa Baumberger and Nicola Behrmann, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2015, 236 pp. [7] (German)
Literature
- Thomas F. Rugh, "Emmy Hennings and the Emergence of Zurich Dada", Woman's Art Journal 2:1, Spring-Summer 1981, pp 1-6. (English)
- Tom Sandqvist, Kärlek och dada: Hugo Ball och Emmy Hennings, Stockholm: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 1998, 367 pp. (Swedish)
- Emmy Ball-Hennings: Muse, Diseuse, Dichterin, eds. Regina Bucher and Bernhard Echte, Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2006, 87 pp; rev.ed., 2015, 87 pp. (German)
- Emmy Ball-Hennings: musa, diseuse, poetessa, trans. Lucilla Janssen and Manuela Cattaneo, Montagnola: Fondazione Hermann Hesse, 2006, 73 pp. Catalogue. (Italian)
- Ruth Hemus, "Emmy Hennings", in Hemus, Dada's Women, Yale University Press, 2009, pp 17-52. (English)
- Paula K. Kamenish, "Emmy Hennings: From Cabaret Singer to the First Mama of Dada", in Kamenish, Mamas of Dada: Women of the European Avant-Garde, University of South Carolina Press, 2015. [8]. (English)
- Fernando González Viñas, José Lázaro, El Ángel Dadá: venturas y desventuras de Emmy Ball-Hennings, creadora del Cabaret Voltaire, Sevilla: El Paseo, 2017, 230 pp. Graphic novel inspired by the life of Emmy Hennings. (Spanish)
