# Tristan Tzara

> He co-founded Dada, the anti-art movement that mocked reason itself. At Cabaret Voltaire in wartime Zurich, Tzara turned poetry into performance chaos — nonsense manifestos, nihilist spectacle — then carried the revolt to Paris, where it fractured into Surrealism and he kept reinventing what a poem could be.

*Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1896-04-16
- **Died:** 1963-12-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born Samuel Rosenstock in Romania in 1896, he published Symbolist work as a teenager with Ion Vinea and painter Marcel Janco before the war sent him to Switzerland. There he staged the provocations that made Dada a movement: performances at Cabaret Voltaire, manifestos that championed chaos over Hugo Ball's gentler line. Moving to Paris in 1919, he joined Littérature and became one of Dada's "presidents," then broke with André Breton and Picabia as the movement splintered. His plays The Gas Heart and Handkerchief of Clouds pushed Dadaist theatre; his poem "The Approximate Man" marked his turn toward Surrealism. He spent his later decades as a committed anti-fascist and communist, fighting with Republicans in Spain, joining the French Resistance, serving in the National Assembly, and speaking out for Hungarian liberalization in 1956 before distancing himself from the Party. He died in Paris on Christmas Day, 1963.

## Fame
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## Topics
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