Richard Huelsenbeck
(1892-1974)
Born on 23 April 1892 in Frankenau, Hessen, Germany, died 1974. Late in his
life he lived in New York under the name of Charles R. Hulbeck and practised
Jungian psycho-analysis. Took a prominent part in the foundation of the
Zürich and Berlin dada movements. He had been an expressionist poet and
writer. Came to Zürich in February 1916 as a ware-resistor and
immediately came into contact with the "Cabaret Voltaire." He returned to
Berlin in January, 1917, initiating the Dada group there. Hugo Ball wrote of
him, in his "Escape from Time," on 11 February 1916:
"Huelsenbeck has arrived. He pleads for an intensification of rhythm (Negro
rhythm). He would best love to drum literature and to perdition."
Edited the "Dada Almanach" in Berlin in 1920 and wrote "En Avant Dada," a
history of dadaism. in the same year. The author of numerous other dada
publications. He claimed throughout his life that "dada is still existing,"
thus placing himself in direct opposition to the other founders of dadaism.
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