Karawane
Hugo Ball
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Karawane by Hugo Ball. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 5th, 2010.
Ball wrote his poem "Karawane," which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief principle behind Dadaism.
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.[1] The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.(summary from Wikipedia) (0 hr 17 min)
Chapters
Karawane - Read by AC | 0:51 | Read by Anne Cheng |
Karawane - Read by DL | 1:01 | Read by David Lawrence |
Karawane - Read by DRB | 0:59 | Read by David Barnes |
Karawane - Read by DW | 1:05 | Read by Dirk Weber |
Karawane - Read by ELLI | 0:44 | Read by Elli |
Karawane - Read by EZWA | 0:50 | Read by Ezwa |
Karawane - Read by GHS | 0:47 | Read by Algy Pug |
Karawane - Read by HF | 0:59 | Read by Karlsson |
Karawane - Read by JCM | 0:53 | Read by Jason Mills |
Karawane - Read by LLW | 1:01 | Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
Karawane - Read by MG | 1:40 | Read by Martin Geeson |
Karawane - Read by MGT | 0:54 | Read by Maria Grazia Tundo |
Karawane - Read by NJB | 1:14 | Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater |
Karawane - Read by RG | 1:08 | Read by Ruth Golding |
Karawane - Read by RJD | 1:21 | Read by Ryan DeRamos |
Karawane - Read by SR | 1:00 | Read by Sonja |
Karawane - Read by TG | 0:54 | Read by TriciaG |
Reviews
Marvellous beyond words...
aposiopesis
I have just experimented with playing this piece in reverse, and its magic is undiminished. A twentieth century landmark.