1889? Jan 15th. b. Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic as Walter Eduard Seligmann Czech writer and essayist in the German language, whose manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dadaism. 1913 Studied Law in Vienna. 1914 Escaped to Switzerland ended up in Zurich co-editing with Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings the magazine Der Mistral (where under the name Wladimir Senakowski he published his first prose. According to Hans Richter, he was "the great cynic of the movement, the total anarchist, an Archimedes who put the world out of whack and then left it to hang." Hans Arp wrote automatic poems with him. 1920 Writes Lotte Lockerung -> a dada manifesto. Contributed to 391. 1933 Books banned in Germany by the Nazis. 1938 m. Dorothea Herz in Prague, where he was working as a private teacher. 1942 Both interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and three weeks later were moved in the direction of "the East", where they perished in Riga. See Bio -> and IMDB -> See List -> of major works. See Timeline