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30-476: Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens , Germany, and was raised in a middle-class Catholic family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg (1906–1907). In 1910, he moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt . At the beginning of World War I, he tried joining the army as a volunteer, but was denied enlistment for medical reasons. After witnessing

60-488: A book of translations of works by Bakunin, which never got published. Although interested in anarchist philosophy, he nonetheless rejected it for its militant aspects, and viewed it as only a means to his personal goal of socio-political enlightenment. In 1916, Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto , making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies of

90-459: A garrison. In 1763, Pirmasens was granted city rights by Ludwig IX, who stayed in his small residence even after taking office in Hesse-Darmstadt after his father's death in 1768. The garrison was continuously expanded, a town hall, two churches and a large exercise hall were erected. Residence and garrison abruptly ended with the landgrave's death in 1790. In 1793, Pirmasens was the location of

120-4648: A member of the NO!art movement, founded by Boris Lurie , Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman at March gallery New York in 1960. The German novelist Peter Rathke, who works under the pseudonym FOLTERGAUL, represented Kommissar Hjuler as a character at his novel Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer . Kommissar Hjuler shares concept albums with Medium Medium , Jonathan Meese , Tim Berresheim , Thurston Moore , Joël Hubaut, Franz Kamin , Antye Greie , Marc Hurtado, DDAA, Willem de Ridder , Maja Ratkje , Jerome Noetinger , De Fabriek, Derek Beaulieu , Wolf Vostell , Bill Dietz, Anna Homler & David Moss , Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, David Dellafiora, Hannah Silva, Enzo Minarelli, Ben Patterson , Morphogenesis , Smegma , The Haters , Jaap Blonk , Markus Kupferblum, Anton G. Leitner , Anja Lautermann, Peter Issig, Thilo Schölpen, Uwe Möllhusen, Karlheinz Essl , Andreas Lechner, Rainer Fabich, Jo Kondo , Peter Weibel , Steve Dalachinsky & David Liebman , Faust , Mischa Badasyan, Andy Strauß, Wolf Hogekamp & Lino Ziegel, Nora-Eugenie Gomringer , Xóchil A. Schütz, Daniel Spicer, Sindre Bjerga, Paul Fuchs & Zoro Babel , Jenny Michel & Fredrik Olofsson, Louis Jucker, Azoikum, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Gerhard Stäbler , Kunsu Shim, Peter Ablinger , Sven-Åke Johansson , Rudolf Eb.er, Hartmut Geerken , Pyrolator , Sabrina Benaim, Tonya Ingram , Daniel Menche , Negativland , Alfred Harth , Magnús Pálsson, Tom Surgal, The Nihilist Spasm Band , David Lee Myers, Jerry Hunt , Philip Krumm , Dan Lander, Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, Emil Siemeister, Gerhard Laber, mlehst, Jean-Jacques Birgé , Un Drame Musical Instantané , Alexander Kibanov, Seppel S. Geschwandtner. He collaborated with numerous artists including Family Fodder , Conrad Schnitzler & Ken Montgomery , GX Jupitter-Larsen , Lasse Marhaug , Dino Felipe, Brume, Amor Fati, Lt. Caramel, Anla Courtis , Andrew Liles , Jean-Louis Costes , Af ursin, Dada Action Group, Clemens Schittko, Steve Dalachinsky , Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Hans-Joachim Hespos , Milan Knizak , Emil Siemeister, Arnulf Meifert , Gintas K , The New Blockaders , Bene Gesserit, Bryan Lewis Saunders , Frank Klötgen, Jürgen Palmtag, Wolfgang Kindermann, Christoph Ogiermann, Al Margolis , Frank Rowenta, Karl Bösmann, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson , Rod Summers , Denis Dufour , Jean-Louis Costes , Z'EV , Vomir , John M. Bennett , Rolf Schobert, Franz Graf, The Oval Language, Klaus Girnus, Tooth Kink, Eric Lunde, Roel Meelkop , Frans de Waard , Vomir , Richard Ramirez , Jan Kruml , Robert Ridley-Shackleton, Neal D. Retke, Torturing Nurse, Le Syndicat, Pacific 231, Wassily Bosch & Rodin Anton, Wataru Kasahara, Jaan Patterson , Goodiepal , Smell and Quim, Kouta Yamamoto, Alig Fodder . Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed with artists like PAAK/Peter Kastner, Jan van Wissen, Caracho, Uwe Möllhusen, Bernd Brecht, Ludo Mich, Jan van den Dobbelsteen , Eugene Chadbourne , Kenzo Kusuda, Clive Graham , Dead Labour Process, Hundred Foot Road & Sukanyan Sunthareswaran, Closedunruh, Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel, Heather Leigh Murray , John Wiese and others. As visual artist he collaborated with albrecht/d., Reed Altemus, Vittore Baroni , Geert Baas, Dmitry Babenko, Wolfgang Peter Brunner, Keith A. Buchholz, Jonathan Dilas, Ad Breedveld, Jonathan Caldwell, Daniela Floersheim, Dadanautik, Catherine Drury, Daniel Eltinger, Angela Ferrara, Ace Farren Ford, Kollektiv G.R.A.M./Martin Behr, danma vs. v2r2/Dan Ma & Veronica Reeves, Clayton Patterson , Jaroslav Divis, Bert Feddema, Jean Kiboi, Norbert Futscherndorf, Phillip Graffham, Rachel Heinold, Peter Trautner, Barbara Rapp , Jean Lessenich, Jan van Hasselt, Karen Houser, Katrien De Blauwer, Stefan Heuer, Veronika Olma, Minouche Marie-Dit-Beaufils, Linus Malmqvist, Vlado Ketch, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Reiner Maria Matysik, Alex Mazzitelli, Ulrike Oppel, Massimo Nota, Jessica Molnar, Yukiko Nasu, Eva Moll, Jose Ney Mila, Armando Ramos, Klaus Rudolf, Kong Wee Pang, M. P. Landis, Odette Picaud, Cornelius P. Rinne, Darija S. Radakovic, Fabio Py, Dorota-Katarzyna Samborski, Gail Scheuring, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Inge van Kann, Valerie Savarie, Nada Vitz, Ruud Janssen , Hubert Kretschmer, Litsa Spathi, Cecil Touchon , Topp & Dubio, Reid Wood, Clemens Stecher, Picasso Galinone, Yuko Ueno, John Welson, Pieter Zandvliet , Andrey Zhelkovsky, and others, especially for

150-611: A religious and relatively poor life with Emmy Hennings. He contributed to the journal Hochland during this time. He also began the process of revising his diaries from 1910 to 1921, which were later published under the title Die Flucht aus der Zeit (Flight Out of Time). These diaries provide a wealth of information concerning the people and events of the Zürich Dada movement. He died in Sant'Abbondio (Gentilino) , Switzerland, of stomach cancer on 14 September 1927. Ball's poem "Gadji beri bimba"

180-1509: A sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music , visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg , a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. He is considered to work in the field of neo dada , whereas his output also contains elements of fluxus , art brut . Music releases are available at independent labels like Intransitive Recordings , and Nihilist Records . Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival at Brighton, Zappanale , UND #6/ART Karlsruhe, Festival Bruit de la Neige at Annecy, Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Incubate Festival Tilburg , Rapid Ear Movement Festival by Projektgruppe Neue Musik e. V. Bremen, Brise°3 festival Flensburg, and at artists' venues like Morden Tower , Cafe Oto , Z33 Kunstencentrum , MS Stubnitz , Weserburg , iLLUSEUM Amsterdam, Gängeviertel Hamburg, Upper Church Gallery Edinburgh, Centre For Contemporary Art Warsaw/Ujazdów Castle , Museum of Modern Fine Art on Dmitrovskaya (Rostov on Don), KM Music Conservatory , Boekie Woekie Amsterdam, Lokaal01 Breda, Grambacht Mechelen, Extrapool , Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, or Mary Bauermeister 's performance space. His visual art has been exhibited in solo and groups shows at locations like

210-672: A treaty signed in 1606, it was agreed that Bitsch would revert to Lorraine and Hanau-Lichtenberg would retain Lemberg. This corresponded approximately to the religious realities of the territories. Since then, Pirmasens was part of the Amt Lemberg in the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg . Before the Thirty Years War , Pirmasens had 59 families and about 235 inhabitants resident, whereas in Lemberg were counted 54 families (about 215 people). When counting it

240-468: Is an independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany , near the border with France . It was famous for the manufacture of shoes . The surrounding rural district was called Landkreis Pirmasens from 1818 until 1997, when it was renamed to Südwestpfalz . The first mention of "Pirminiseusna", a colony of Hornbach Abbey , dates from 860. The name derives from St. Pirminius , the founder of

270-733: The Battle of Pirmasens between Prussia and the French Corps of the Vosges . The French lost the battle, but their opponents' internal divisions nevertheless enabled them to return and occupy Pirmasens by the end of the year: between 1798 and 1814, the town was included in the French département of Mont-Tonnerre ( "Donnersberg-Département" in German). After the French defeat, it was made part of Bavaria together with

300-536: The County of Bitsch , the Lordship of Ochsenstein and half the Lordship of Lichtenberg (Philip's father had already held the other half). James's older brother, Simon V Wecker, had already died in 1540, also without a male heir. A dispute about the inheritance erupted between the husbands of Ludowika Margaretha and of her cousin Amalie, Philip V of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg, respectively. Formally,

330-671: The Franco-Dutch War in 1677, the town was burned down again, this time by French troops. During the Nine Years' War , it was sacked by French troops under General de Ezéchiel Mélac , who devastated the Palatinate in 1689. In 1691, only 16 people lived in Pirmasens. At the same time, the part of Lemberg Castle that was still habitable after the Thirty Years' War, was completely destroyed. Thus,

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360-1021: The Institute of Contemporary Arts , Schloss Liedberg (Korschenbroich), Museum Obere Saline (Bad Kissing), Neues Museum Weserburg , Haus der Kleinen Künste (München), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Atelierhaus & Galerie A24 (Bergisch-Gladbach), Jan van Eyck Academie , Sallis Benny Theatre (Brighton), VAC Gallery (Northwich), Museum Huelsmann Bielefeld, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia , Museum Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo) and at several galleries like Kunstraum Winterthur, Galerie Cross Art (Berlin), Itami City Gallery (Japan), fzkke Euskichen, kunsTTempel (Kassel), The Box (Düsseldorf), ARTpool (St. Petersburg), Fabbrica Immagine (Rome), Flux Factory (Long Island City), Chicago Cultural Center , 6028 Gallery (Chicago), Eyedrum . Selected art works are part of collections like Artpool Art Research Center , Avant Writing Collection by

390-742: The Ohio State University , Fondazione Bonotto, the VAC Archive Northwich, the Jan van Eyck Academie , the Wolf Vostell Archive , and the ZKM Karlsruhe. Short films by Kommissar Hjuler have been presented at European festivals like 12. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Muenchen 2010, Vienna Independent Shorts 2011, Leeds International Film Festival 2011, and at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago . Since November 9, 2009 he has been

420-515: The Rhenish Palatinate . On 15 March 1945 Pirmasens was captured by US troops, and the following year it became part of the newly established German state Rhineland-Palatinate. During the occupation on Sept. 19, 1945, the Museum of Pirmasens announced that about 50 paintings, which had been stored in the air-raid shelter at Husterhoh School during the war, had been plundered during the arrival of

450-642: The American troops. The paintings were returned in 2006. Evolution of population (since 1875): Town council as at August 2014: Pirmasens is twinned with: Husterhoeh Kaserne was a former (1945–1994) US military facility in Pirmasens, and is now a mostly closed Bundeswehr facility, which still hosts U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center – Europe. It was a constituent member of the Kaiserslautern Military Community . Kommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler ; 1967) works as

480-582: The County of Bitsch and the district of Lemberg were fiefs of the Duchy of Lorraine and such fiefs could only be inherited in the male line. Philip V was initially successful in the dispute with Philip I about Zweibrücken-Bitsch. However, he introduced the Lutheran confession in his newly gained territories in 1572. This upset his powerful Catholic neighbour and liege lord, Duke Charles III of Lorraine . The Duke terminated

510-585: The administrative centre of Amt Lemberg was moved to Pirmasens in 1697. This made Pirmasens the most important locality of the region. In 1736, Johann Reinhard III , the last count of Hanau-Lichtenberg, died without male heir and the duchy passed to his grandson, Landgrave Ludwig IX of Hesse-Darmstadt , the son of Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg , sole heir of the county of Hanau Lichtenberg, and Ludwig VIII , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. Landgrave Ludwig IX took residence in his grandfather's hunting lodge in Pirmasens, Schloss Pirmasens , and established

540-649: The drama Die Nase des Michelangelo , a memoir of the Zürich period Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary , and a biography of Hermann Hesse , entitled Hermann Hesse. Sein Leben und sein Werk (1927). As co-founder of the Cabaret Voltaire and a magazine with the same name, Cabaret Voltaire , in Zürich, he led the Dada movement in Zürich and is one of the people credited with naming

570-711: The fief and in July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied the county. Since Philip V's army was no match for Lorraine, he took his case to the Imperial Chamber Court in Speyer. During the trial, Lorraine argued that, firstly, a significant part of the territory of Zweibrücken-Bitsch had been obtained in an exchange with Lorraine in 1302 and, secondly, the Counts of Leiningen had sold their hereditary claims to Lorraine in 1573. In 1604, Hanau-Lichtenberg and Lorraine decided to settle out of court. In

600-480: The invasion of Belgium, he was disillusioned, saying: "The war is founded on a glaring mistake – men have been confused with machines." Considered a traitor in his country, he crossed the frontier with the cabaret performer and poet Emmy Hennings , whom he would marry in 1920, and settled in Zürich, Switzerland. There, Ball continued his interest in anarchism and in Mikhail Bakunin in particular; he also worked on

630-460: The language has to be fixed, is here given a distinctive critique of economy as a motivation. The same year as the Manifesto , in 1916, Ball wrote his poem " Karawane ," a poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning, however, resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief principle behind Dadaism. Some of his other best known works include the poem collection 7 schizophrene Sonette ,

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660-538: The monastery. During the period it was under rule of the Bishopric of Metz . It was passed to Diocese of Speyer in last the quarter of the 11th century, then was captured by County of Saarbrücken in 1100. In 1182, the County of Saarbrücken was divided by Simon II and Henry I, who were sons of Simon I. Pirmasens was given to Henry I and his dominion was named as County of Zweibrücken . He built Lemberg Castle to protect his dominion in 1198. During this period Pirmasens

690-482: The movement "Dada," by allegedly choosing the word at random from a dictionary. His companion and future wife, Emmy Hennings, was also a member of Dada. His involvement with the Dada movement lasted approximately two years. He then worked for a short period as a journalist for Die Freie Zeitung  [ de ] in Bern. After returning to Catholicism in July 1920, Ball retired to the canton of Ticino , where he lived

720-422: The past that claimed to possess the ultimate truth. In the manifesto Ball aimed to legitimize the new artistic movement's ambition to not merely "write poetry with words", but to "write poetry out of the words", to create an entirely new language, due to the fact that the old language was viewed as "doomed", and "ruined by the filthy hands of capital". The central thought of modernism since Baudelaire regarding that

750-533: The same year. In 1525, during the German Peasants' War , Pirmasens was looted by peasants from Bitsch. In 1560, Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibrücken-Bitsch , daughter of Count James of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (1510–1570), the last male member of the House of Zweibrücken, was married to Philip V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg . In 1570, Count James of Zweibrücken-Bitsch died without male heir and Ludowika Margaretha inherited

780-1364: Was adapted to the song " I Zimbra " on the 1979 Talking Heads album Fear of Music . Ball received a writing credit for the song on the track listing. The song contains these lines: Gadji beri bimba clandridi Lauli lonni cadori gadjam A bim beri glassala glandride E glassala tuffm I zimbra The complete "Gadji beri bimba" poem by Ball reads: gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri galassassa laulitalomini gadji beri bin blassa glassala laula lonni cadorsu sassala bim gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban o katalominai rhinozerossola hopsamen laulitalomini hoooo gadjama rhinozerossola hopsamen bluku terullala blaulala loooo zimzim urullala zimzim urullala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata velo da bang band affalo purzamai affalo purzamai lengado tor gadjama bimbalo glandridi glassala zingtata pimpalo ögrögöööö viola laxato viola zimbrabim viola uli paluji malooo tuffm im zimbrabim negramai bumbalo negramai bumbalo tuffm i zim gadjama bimbala oo beri gadjama gaga di gadjama affalo pinx gaga di bumbalo bumbalo gadjamen gaga di bling blong gaga blung A voice-cut-up collage of his poem "Karawane" by German artist Kommissar Hjuler , member of Boris Lurie 's NO!art movement,

810-500: Was assumed at that time that a family consisted of four to five people. In 1622, Pirmasens and Lemberg were ravaged by Spaniards and Croatian horsemen of the Imperial troops. The imperial army set fire to the village. Even the church was destroyed in a fire. After the withdrawal of the troops, the Pirmasens inhabitants began to rebuild it. It was again ravaged by imperial troops under Matthias Gallas . They also looted Lemberg Castle, which

840-427: Was burned in 1636. Then the headquarters of the Lutheran parish of Lemberg was moved to Pirmasens. But Pirmasens was heavily damaged in the war. In 1657, only 9 families (about 40 people) lived there. The population then slowly increased through immigration of Reformed Swiss, Catholic Tyrolean as well as Franconian and Württembergian families, so that in 1661 21 families (about 87 people) were counted in Pirmasens. During

870-822: Was released on an LP on the Greek Shamanic Trance label in 2010. "Karawane" was also set to music in 2012 by Australian composer Stephen Whittington , as an "anti- song cycle " of seventeen songs — one for each line of the poem, lasting approximately two minutes each. The same poem and its historical context was used by Esa-Pekka Salonen for his 28-minute composition for mixed choir and orchestra, Karawane . Bibliography in English Novels in English Pirmasens Pirmasens ( German pronunciation: [ˈpɪʁmazɛns] ; Palatine German : Bärmesens (also Bermesens or Bärmasens ))

900-421: Was under the formal jurisdiction of the bishop of Metz, but the parish administration of Pirmasens was passed to the monastery of Hornbach after confirmation by John, Bishop of Metz, in 1225. In 1297, the County of Zweibrücken was divided and Pirmasens was passed to County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch, Eberhard I's dominion. He traded some localities with Duke Frederick III of Lorraine and took lordship of Bitsch in

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