Hugo Ball
Ball, Hugo
February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927 (aged 41)
Birth place: Pirmasens, Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Author & poet (and one of the founder of the Dada movement and its associated Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland). In 1915 he took home in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, where he befriended Hermann Hesse. He died of stomach cancer in Sant'Abbondio, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland.