Der Dada
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Der Dada was a German periodical dedicated to Dada. It published the tract "What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?" in their first issue in 1919.
Background
After Raoul Hausmann contributed to the first Dada group show, held at Isaac Neumann's Gallery, April 1919, the first edition of Der Dada appeared in June 1919. Edited by Hausmann and Johannes Baader, after receiving permission from Tristan Tzara in Zurich to use the name, the magazine also featured significant contributions from Richard Huelsenbeck. The periodical contained drawings, polemics, poems and satires, all typeset in a multiplicity of opposing fonts and signs.
At the beginning of 1920, Baader (President of All The World) Hausmann (the Dadasopher) and the 'World-Dada' Huelsenbeck undertook a six week tour of Eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia, drawing large crowds and bemused reviews. Estimated at up to 2000 people attended and the programme included primitivist verse, simultaneous poetry recitals by Baader and Hausmann, and Hausmann's Dada-Trot (Sixty-One Step) described as 'a truly splendid send-up of the most modern exotic-erotic social dances that have befallen us like a plague...'.
