# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:59:23.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-ball"
name: "Hugo Ball"
slug: "hugo-ball"
description: "Hugo Ball 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. His best known works include the \"Dada Manifesto\", the Dadaist nonsense poem \"Karawane\", the poetry collection 7 schizophrene Sonette, the edited diary Flight out of Time, the Christian anarchist polemic book Critique of the German Intelligentsia and the novels Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor and Tenderenda the Fantast."
tagline: "German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1886-02-22"
deathDate: "1927-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump