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Biography
Walter Serner (real name Walter Eduard Seligmann) was a German writer and essayist from the Checz Republic. His manifesto, “Letzte Lockerung, (Last Loosening) the first German manifesto written in Zurich, was an extremely important text for Dadaism. In it he took the nominalism of Dada rhetoric to its extremity of meaninglessness and disintegration. He started off studying promotion law in Vienna. However, with the outbreak of World War One, he fled to Switzerland in 1914 and started participating in Dada activities in Zürich, Geneva, and Paris until 1920. His debut as a Dada came, however, at the eighth Dada Soirée in 1919. After this, in 1923, he started traveling around Europe to such cities as Barcelona, Bern, Vienna and Prague. In 1923, his play, “Posada” premiered in Berlin. In 1915, he was the founder and editor of the magazine “Sirius,” an editor at “Zeltweg” and a writer for “Die Aktion.” He also co-edited “der Zeltwef,” contributed to “Der Mistral” and helped organize to exhibitions, including the “Grand Bal Dada.”He was interned by the Nazis in 1942 and died in a concentration camp. His story "Die Tigerin" was made into a TV film.
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