Richard Huelsenbeck

Richard Huelsenbeck (April 23, 1892 - April 30, 1974) was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany. He emigrated to Zurich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire. In January 1917, he moved to Berlin, where he helped to found the Berlin Dada group. Later in life, he moved to New York City, where he practice Jungian psychoanalysis under the name Charles R. Hulbeck.

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 that "Dada is still existing," although the movements' other founders might not have agreed.

Sources

• Richard Huelsenbeck

• Richard Huelsenbeck at the International Dada Archive. Includes digitized images of Huelsenbeck's publications.