Walter Serner

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Walter Serner (January 15, 1889 - 1942) was a German-language writer and essayist. His manifesto Letzte Lockerung was an important text of Dadaism.

Walter Serner was born Walter Eduard Seligmann in Carlsbad, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). In 1913 he studied Promotion law in the Austro-Hungarian capital of Vienna. With the outbreak of World War I he escaped to Switzerland in 1914 and participated in Dada activities in Zürich, Geneva, and Paris until 1920. During World War I he was the editor of the magazines Sirius and Zeltweg and a writer for Die Aktion. In 1921 Serner stayed in Italy with the artist Christian Schad. Beginning in 1923 he began living in various European cities, including Barcelona, Bern, Vienna, Carlsbad, and Prague. His play Posada premiered in Berlin in 1927, but his other planned shows were forbidden. In 1933 Serner's books were banned by the government of Nazi Germany. In 1942 he was interned and died in Concentration camp Theresienstadt.

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• The Necessity to Disappear (about Walter Serner) by Peter Luining