Gegen den Bürger, für das (Er-)Leben. Raoul Hausmann und der Berliner Dadaismus gegen die „Weimarische Lebensauffassung“, in: German Studies Review 31 (2008), Nr. 3, 513-536

Strikingly, Raoul Hausmann’s political thought has not been closely analyzed yet. To be sure, numerous studies have shed light on the versatile “Dadasoph” from the perspective of literary and art history. What is missing, however, is a thorough examination, and intellectual contextualization, of the political dimension in Hausmann’s written and visual work that he created in the early years of the Weimar Republic. Constructing an anarcho-communist Utopia of vibrant (Er-)Leben, the Berlin Dadaist was a prime example of anti-bourgeois life-ideology that can be considered the decisive intellectual challenge for Germany’s first democracy, from both left- and right-wing radicals.
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