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[sovay]

Courtesy of handful_ofdust: Emmy Hennings with her Dada puppet, spring 1917.



Of course there is a story there; it's Hennings' life. But there is also another story and someone I know had better write it.

Comments

[movingfinger]

Note that a decade before Brooks, she is already wearing a cropped bob. I know there had to have been WWI working-woman influence there, but did German cabaret give us the bob? Specifically, Emmy Hennings?

I am very annoyed that I never heard of her before. I thank you for the reveal.

[gwynnega]

What an amazing image.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

She looks like a still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Quite literally.

I love how I can't tell whether that's a skirt or trousers.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

A sorcerer and her familiar?

Nine

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Wow. That needs to be told. It says a lot more than the portrait on Wikipedia.

[mrbelm.livejournal.com]

To borrow a Henry Cow lyric: She's "the mama of Dada."