Richard Huelsenbeck (April 23, 1892 - April 30, 1974) was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany. April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... A poet exists within a cultural and intellectual tradition and usually writes in a specific language, but the qualities of good poetry are to some extent timeless and address issues common to all humanity. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ...

Huelsenbeck emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire. In January 1917, he moved to Berlin, where he helped found the Berlin Dada group. Later in life, he moved to New York City, where he practiced Jungian psychoanalysis under the name Charles R. Hulbeck. In 1970 he returned to the Ticino region of Switzerland. Location within Switzerland (help· info) (German pronunciation IPA: ; in English often Zurich, without the umlaut) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 - The Royal Army Medical Corps first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings, founded Cabaret Voltaire on February 5, 1916 in Zürich as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Canton Ticino or Ticino (German: (help· info)) is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. ...

Huelsenbeck was the editor of the Dada Almanach, and wrote Dada Sieght, En Avant Dada and other Dadaist works. Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...

Of his music, Hugo Ball wrote, "Huelsenbeck has arrived. He pleads for an intensification of rhythm (Negro rhythm). He would best love to drum literature & to perdition." Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 - September 14, 1927) was a German author and poet. ... Rhythm (Greek ρυθμός = tempo) is the variation of the duration of sounds or other events over time. ... Negro means black in Spanish, Portuguese and ancient Italian languages, being derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction... Medieval illustration of the Mouth of Hell Hell is, according to many religious beliefs about the afterlife, a place of torment, of great weeping and gnashing of teeth. ...

Until the end of his life, Huelsenbeck insisted, "Dada is still existing," although the movement's other founders might not have agreed.

Listening

An English language interview with Richard Huelsenbeck recorded in 1959 can be heard on the audio CD Voices of Dada together with a 1967 reading of a poem from his 1916 verse collection Phantastiche Gebete. A non-author performance of L'amiral cherche une maison a louer, the simultaneous Dada poem written by Huelsenbeck with Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, can be heard on the audio CD Futurism and Dada Reviewed Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 – December 25, 1963) is the pseudonym of Sami Rosenstock, born in Moineşti, Bacău, Romania, a poet and essayist who lived for the majority of his life in France. ... Marcel Janco/Iancu/Ianco (May 24, 1895, Bucharest - April 21, 1984, Tel Aviv) was a Jewish-Romanian artist, painter and architect. ...

Sources

• Richard Huelsenbeck

• Richard Huelsenbeck at the International Dada Archive. Includes digitized images of Huelsenbeck's publications.