Johannes Baader

Johannes Baader ( born June 22, 1875 in Stuttgart, † January 15, 1955 in Adldorf ( Lower Bavaria ) ), was a German architect, writer, Dadaist and performance artist.

Life

Baader came from a middle class family ( Flaschnermeisterei and Oberhof supplier). The father's name was Adolf Baader, his mother Johanna née Weigle. Johannes Baader attended from 1892 to 1895 the Construction School in Stuttgart and studied there from 1898 to 1899 architecture. In 1905 he met Raoul Hausmann know who introduced him in the course of time in the circle later Berlin Dadaists. Baader's view of the world is kulturpessimistsch and religious- occult. As a man and an artist, he was filled with missionary impulse which led to eccentric ideas and productions.

1906 Baader planned to build a temple for the World "International Inter-religious people covenant." In a letter sequence (14 letters of Christ, 1914), he claimed to be the reincarnation of Christ. After sensational Christ happenings in the Berlin Cathedral ( November 1918 ) and in the new Weimar Reichstag ( leaflet Green body, spring 1919) he participated in the First International Dada Fair in part in 1920. As Oberdada he organized with Raoul Hausmann and Richard Huelsenbeck Dada tours and founded in 1921 the "First Intertellurische Academy ". From 1925 he worked as a journalist in Hamburg.

In the uncertain time religious enthusiasms had increased, and it was in 1930 in Thuringia, a congress of the various alleged Christ - revenant time been ( the so-called inflation Saints) and their supporters organized. Baader flew on a Lufthansa on the site, had a great appearance as the true Christ and left the place and the audience speechless again. Since 1941, he again worked as an architect.

Johannes Baader died at the age of 79 years in 1955 in a nursing home in Lower Bavaria.

Quote

  • DADA will save the world!
  • What do you mean Jesus Christ? He's just like her - it is all the same!
  • Jesus Christ we do not care!

( Baader during his appearance at the Berlin Cathedral 1918)

Works

  • Oberdada. Writings, manifestos, leaflets, tickets, works and deeds. Edited by Hanne Bergius. Anabas Verlag, Lahn- Giessen 1977. ISBN 3-87038-046-2
  • The Oberdada. The history of a movement from Zurich to Zurich. Edited by Karl Riha. Univ.-Ge. v. Karl Riha. . . Univ.- Gesamthochsch, Siegen 1989 ( = forgotten authors of the modern age; 42)
  • You can drink the milk of the Milky Way. Texts and acts of Oberdada. Edited by Karl Riha. Ed. Nautilus, Hamburg, inter alia, 1990th ( = Small Library for the hand and head; 25) ISBN 3-89401-164-5
  • World Court of Nuremberg. Edited by Karl Riha. . Univ.- Gesamthochsch, Siegen 1993 ( = forgotten authors of the modern age; 58)
  • I bless the hell! Poems 1915-1933. Edited by Dieter Scholz. . Univ.- Gesamthochsch, Siegen 1995 ( = forgotten authors of the modern age; 64).
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