Emmy Hennings
May 9th 2007 11:04
I adore this photo of the performer and poet Emmy Hennings. Born in Flensberg, Germany in 1885, there is little documentation of her life that isn't related to her partnership with the celebrated Dadaist Hugo Ball. In 1913 she was a performer at the Cabaret Simplizissimus in Munich, where she met Ball. They moved to Zurich in 1915, where they were involved with the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire, which marked the beginning of Dada. Hennings was a regular performer there and when it ended, she and Ball toured around Europe together. She did puppetry, sang, danced to music composed by Ball, and recited her own poetry. In 1916 they created Arabella, their own ensemble troupe, where Hennings performed under the name Dagny. They married in 1920, and she outlived him by two decades, before dying in Sorengo-Lugano, Italy.
“Art is dead. Long live Dada.”
(Walter Serner)
(Walter Serner)
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