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Walter Serner (15 January 1889 – August 1942) was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dadaism.
Walter Serner (* 15. Januar 1889 in Karlsbad, Österreich-Ungarn; † wahrscheinlich 23. August 1942 im Wald von Biķernieki bei Riga; eigentlich Walter Eduard Seligmann) war ein Essayist, Schriftsteller und Dadaist. Sein Manifest Letzte Lockerung gilt als einer der wichtigsten Dada-Texte.
A cofounder of Dada and its enfant terrible, Walter Serner was a brilliant observer of society — his activities in the 1920s have been called "a dance on the rim of a volcano." His Last Loosening: Dada Manifesto was written in 1918 and published in 1920.
Walter Serner (15 January 1889 – August 1942) was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dada .
Walter Serner was born into a Jewish family as Walter Eduard Seligmann on January 15, 1889 in the Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad at that time). His father, Berthold Seligmann, owned the town's major newspaper, the Karlsbader Zeitung, for which Walter wrote an arts column.
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Born Walter Eduard Seligmann, Serner studied law in Vienna and moved to Switzerland to escape WWI. He joined the Dada movement and participated in events in Zürich, Geneva and Paris. He was editor of the publication Sirius and Zeltweg, but also contributed to Die Aktion.
