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"Everyone be his own football" was an illustrated satirical magazine in the artistic environment of the Dada movement, which was banned in 1919 after a single appearance. The magazine was published by Wieland in his own heart field Malik -Verlag. Despite the small number of pages and possible short editorial history the issue a few weeks is considered because of the quality of the artists involved and the references to the then political situation after the Spartacist uprising in Berlin as a highlight of the Dadaist collage and graphics.
The first and only edition of the magazine was published on 15 February 1919, tabloid format. The magazine was immediately seized for obscenity - the impetus had the impression of the poem " Coitus in Dreimaederlhaus " by Walter Mehring excited. Walter Mehring, therefore, the process has been made , but which ended in acquittal. ( The Dreimaederlhaus was a then popular operetta. )
"Everyone be his own football" had four sides and contained a total of eight illustrations, of which two photomontages of Herzfeld's brother John Heartfield and six drawings of George Grosz. Text contributors were Richard Huelsenbeck, Erwin Piscator, Karl renal village, Solomon Friedlaender ( Mynona ) and JH Kuhlemann. Both typography and layout of the title page leaned parody on the design of contemporary conservative newspapers. On the title page, the photo montage "Who is the fairest " of Heartfield, in the six portraits is - by Friedrich Ebert and Philipp Scheidemann and four other members of the government for an alleged beauty contest on a flirtatious compartments are arranged. On the handle of the fan the portraits of General Erich Ludendorff, the Catholic deputies Matthias Erzberger and the Social Democratic Minister of Defense Gustav Noske can be seen. In the upper left corner of the title page the collage of football man is to be seen; the head is a portrait of the heart field.
After setting "everyone be ... " heart field was still 1919, the magazines " The bankruptcy " and " The enemy " out. In Berlin ruled from 1917 to 1922 a veritable artistic magazine glut: " The action " by Franz Pfemfert, " New Youth " from the Malik -Verlag, " Club Dada " of Hülsbeck and Hausmann, " The Comet ," and " The bloody seriousness " Grosz, welcomed some of the titles which reference has already been seen at the time critical to the reality of life and political situation:
" The communist movement is almost entirely contained, since every German is concerned with the publication of his own newspaper. Food useless, all swallow printer's ink. "
Despite the attitude of the absurdist Amusement applies "everyone be his own football" as the culmination of political radicalization in the art movement of Dadaism in Berlin.