The first public venue for the Dada Movement which became the focus of the Zurich Dada group
In 1915, Hugo Ball and his partner Emmy Hennings escaped Munich and went to Zurich. Ball made an agreement with the owner of the tavern 'Meierei' to use the backroom for a literary cabaret and to increase the sale of beer, sausages and sandwiches. An evening with music, dance, manifestos, poetry, paintings, masks etc., by Ball, Hennings, Marcel Janco, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georges Janco and Jean Arp. The only 1 edition of the magazine Cabaret Voltaire published. Renamed Cabaret Dada
Sources:
Motherwell, Robert "The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology", Harvard University Press, 1951
Rubin, William S., "Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage", MoMA, NY, 1968.
Last Updated 06.16.03