Cabaret Voltaire (magazine)

Cabaret Voltaire was launched by the German writer Hugo Ball in Zürich^[2] and appeared on 31 May 1916.^[3] In the magazine Hugo Ball announced the opening of an artistic nightclub with the same name, Cabaret Voltaire.^[2] The publisher of the magazine was Julius Heuberger.^[4] Its size was 21.5 x 27 cm (8½ x 10½ inches), and it had thirty-two pages.^[3] Five hundred copies of the magazine were issued.^[3]

Cabaret Voltaire published articles in French and German.^[4] Its format was conventional, and the magazine featured work by the Dadaist, Futurist and Cubist artists.^[4]

The successor of Cabaret Voltaire was Dada, an art and literary review launched by Tristan Tzara.^[4]

• Digital archive of the magazine, Iowa University Library