The site that sums up Zurich’s rebellious undercurrent is a little street called Spiegelgasse. On the corner is Cabaret Voltaire, the riotous nightclub that revolutionised modern art – and ...

Visit the Birthplace of Dadaism at Cabaret Voltaire About a hundred years ago, this tiny house in downtown Zurich became the birthplace of the Dada movement. In July 1916, German artist and poet ...

In the first report published in the local news section on February 9th, 1916, the author could not have sensed what was in store: “The evening of February 5th saw the opening of `Voltaire', an ...

NARRATOR: The Dada movement began in neutral Zurich in 1916, in a seedy bar called the Cabaret Voltaire. There, the German writer Hugo Ball and a small group of international artists staged raucous ...