Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck (April 23, 1892 - April 30, 1974) was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany.
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.
Huelsenbeck was the editor of the Dada Almanach, and wrote Dada Sieght, En Avant Dada and other Dadaist works.
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."
Until the end of his life, Huelsenbeck insisted, "Dada is still existing," although the movements' other founders might not have agreed.
Sources
- Richard Huelsenbeck at the International Dada Archive. Includes digitized images of Huelsenbeck's publications.