''Cabaret Voltaire'' was a one-issue

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

ist art magazine which was published in May 1916 in

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, Switzerland. Its subtitle was ''eine Sammlung künstlerischer und literarischer Beiträge'' (German: ''A collection of artistic and literary contributions'').

History and profile

''Cabaret Voltaire'' was launched by the German writer Hugo Ball in Zürich and appeared on 31 May 1916. In the magazine Hugo Ball announced the opening of an artistic nightclub with the same name, Cabaret Voltaire. The publisher of the magazine was Julius Heuberger. Its size was 21.5 x 27 cm (8½ x 10½ inches), and it had thirty-two pages. Five hundred copies of the magazine were issued. ''Cabaret Voltaire'' published articles in French and German. Its format was conventional, and the magazine featured work by the Dadaist,

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and

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artists. The successor of ''Cabaret Voltaire'' was ''Dada'', an art and literary review launched by

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, c ...

References

External links

Digital archive of the magazine
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