Hugo Ball was innate around Pirmasens, Germany. He was one of a leading Dada artists. He created the Dada Manifesto in 1916, making a political statment just about his views on a terrible state of society & acknowledging his dislike for philosophies it used to be that claiming to possess the ultimate Truth. A equivalent month when a Pronunciamento, within 1916, Ball wrote his verse form "Karawane," which occurs as German verse form consisting of nonsensical words. A meaning yet lives around its meaninglessness, reflecting a principal principle behind Dadaism. A few of his more better known works include a verse form collection Vii schizophrene Sonette, a drama Die Nase des Michelangelo, a memoir of the Zürich period of time Flight Away from Instance: The Dada Diary, & the life history of Hermann Hesse.

When co-founder of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, he led the Dada movement in Zürich, & is one of a population credited by using naming a movement "Dada", by allegedly finding the word willy-nilly from either a lexicon. He was married to Emmy Hennings, another member of Dada.

He died around Sant'Abbondio, Switzerland.

His verse form "Gadji beri bimba" was late adapted to song on the Talking Heads album "Fear of Music" as "I Zimbra".

Associated artists
Richard Huelsenbeck Tristan Tzara Hans Arp Emmy Hennings Walter Serner Hans Richter