''Cabaret Voltaire'' was a one-issue

Dadaist Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris ...

art magazine which was published in May 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. Its subtitle was ''eine Sammlung künstlerischer und literarischer Beiträge'' (German: ''A collection of artistic and literary contributions'').

History and profile

''Cabaret Voltaire'' was launched by the German writer

Hugo Ball Hugo Ball (; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry. ...

in Zurich and appeared on 31 May 1916. In the magazine Hugo Ball announced the opening of an artistic nightclub with the same name, Cabaret Voltaire. The publisher of the magazine was Julius Heuberger. Its size was 21.5 x 27 cm (8½ x 10½ inches), and it had thirty-two pages. Five hundred copies of the magazine was issued. ''Cabaret Voltaire'' published articles in French and German. Its format was conventional, and the magazine featured work by the Dadaist,

Futurist Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities abou ...

and

Cubist Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...

artists. The successor of ''Cabaret Voltaire'' was ''Dada'', an art and literary review launched by

Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, comp ...

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Digital archive of the magazine
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