Hugo Ball

Hugo Ball, Verse ohne Worte im kubistischen Kostüm, Zurich, 1916. 71,5 x 40 cm. Unknown photographer. Publicity postcard to promote the programme of the Cabaret Voltaire.
Born	February 22, 1886(1886-02-22) Pirmasens, German Empire
Died	September 14, 1927(1927-09-14) (aged 41) Sant'Abbondio, Switzerland
Web	UbuWeb Sound, Dada Companion, Wikipedia

Hugo Ball (1886–1927) was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada protagonists.

Works

Poems

• Sound recordings of performances of Ball's poems on UbuWeb

Publications

(in German unless noted)

• Die Nase des Michelangelo. Tragikomödie in vier Auftritten, Leipzig: Ernst Rowohlt, 1911.
• editor, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, 1916. Single-issue magazine.
• Flametti, oder, Vom Dandysmus der Armen. Roman, Berlin: Reiss, 1918. Novel.
• Zur Kritik der deutschen Intelligenz, Bern: Der Freie Verlag, 1919, IDA; new ed., rev., as Die Folgen der Reformation, Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1924.
• Byzantinisches Christentum. Drei Heiligenleben (zu Joannes Klimax, Dionysius Areopagita und Symeon dem Styliten), Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1923; new ed., ed. & comm. Bernd Wacker, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011.
• Hermann Hesse. Sein Leben und sein Werk, Berlin: S. Fischer, 1927, PDF, 242 pp.
• Die Flucht aus der Zeit, Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1927, 331 pp; new ed., forew. Herman Hesse, Munich: Kösel & F. Pustet, 1931, 330 pp; new ed., forew. Emmy Ball-Hennings, Luzern: J. Stocker, 1946, xxix+311 pp; new ed., ed., notes & afterw. Bernhard Echte, Zürich: Limmat, 1992, 365 pp. Diary. (German)
  • Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary, ed. & intro. John Elderfield, trans. Ann Raimes, New York: Viking Press, 1974, lxiv+254 pp; new ed., University of California Press, lxiv+274 pp.
  • Jidai kara no tōsō: dada sōritsusha no nikki, trans. Yoshio Dohi and Kōichi Kondō, Tokyo: Misuzushobō, 1975. (Japanese)
  • La fuite hors du temps: journal 1913-1921, pref. Herman Hesse, trans. Sabine Wolf, Monaco: Rocher, 1993, 386 pp. (French)
  • Flykten ur tiden, trans., comm. & afterw. Cecelia Hannson, Lund: Ellerstroms, 2000, 254 pp. (Swedish)
  • La huida del tiempo: un diario, con el primer manifiesto dadaísta, forew. Paul Auster, intro. Hermann Hesse, trans. Roberto Bravo de la Varga, Barcelona: Acantilado, 2005, 373 pp. (Spanish)
  • La fuga dal tempo: fuga saeculi, trans. Pier Giulio Taino, Pasian di Prato: Campanotto, 2006, 191 pp. (Italian)

• Der Henker von Brescia. Drei Akte der Not und Ekstase [1914], ed. Franz L. Pelgen, Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 1995.
• Tenderenda der Phantast, Zürich: Arche, 1967; Innsbruck: Haymon, 1999; new ed., Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015. Novel.

Collected works

• Gesammelte Gedichte mit Photos und Faksimiles, ed. Annemarie Schütt-Hennings, Zürich: Arche, 1963.
• Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, 10 vols., Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003-11.

More

• Wikisource-DE
• Bibliotheca Augustana

Literature

• Hal Foster, "Dada Mime", October 105: Dada (Summer 2003), pp 166-176.

Links

• http://hugo-ball-gesellschaft.de/
• Ball's biography and works at 2006 NGA exhibition