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Hugo Ball

1886 - 1927

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Hugo Ball (German: [bal]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Ball is the 755th most popular writer (down from 722nd in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 683rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Writer.

Hugo Ball was a German Dadaist poet who is most famous for his work "The Fatherland is in the Heart."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hugo Ball ranks 755 out of 7,302. Before him are Claudian, Edgar Wallace, Christa Wolf, Berossus, Edmond de Goncourt, and Natalia Ginzburg. After him are Cao Xueqin, Ibn Hawqal, Theognis of Megara, Dio Chrysostom, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, and Arto Paasilinna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Hugo Ball ranks 31. Before him are Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Hermann Broch, Jan Masaryk, Zhu De, Karl Polanyi, and Gerda Wegener. After him are Michael Curtiz, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Kurt Koffka, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, George Mallory, and Aron Nimzowitsch. Among people deceased in 1927, Hugo Ball ranks 11. Before him are Willem Einthoven, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Juan Gris, Albrecht Kossel, Gaston Leroux, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. After him are Andranik, Jerome K. Jerome, Georg Brandes, Kang Youwei, Paul Sérusier, and Carl David Tolmé Runge.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Ball ranks 742 out of 7,253. Before him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Jürgen Stroop (1895), Thomas Bach (1953), John Ernest IV, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1658), and Magda Schneider (1909). After him are Reinhard Gehlen (1902), Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821), Wilhelm Tempel (1821), Michael Thonet (1796), Otto Rehhagel (1938), and Sandra (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hugo Ball ranks 41. Before him are Ludwig Tieck (1773), Klaus Mann (1906), Dietrich Eckart (1868), Georg Büchner (1813), Clemens Brentano (1778), and Elisabeth of Wied (1843). After him are Bernhard Schlink (1944), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733), Anna Seghers (1900), Achim von Arnim (1781), Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), and Wilhelm Hauff (1802).

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