And, heaven forfend, even the mayor, Emil Landolt, showed up to solemnly read a dada poem: “Switzerland is Dada. /Dada is nothing. /Superfluous mountains keep Switzerland from achieving concrete ...

Refused by the Berlin Dadaists, he started a one-man Dada group in Hannover called Merz . He made paintings, collages and objects; he wrote poems, sound poems and plays, which he published in his ...