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Karawane

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(2,75 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)

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

Bewertungen

Marvellous beyond words...

(5 Sterne)

I have just experimented with playing this piece in reverse, and its magic is undiminished. A twentieth century landmark.