Role As Artist
In The Magic Bishop: Hugo Ball, Dada Poet, author Erdmute Wenzel White writes that Hennings “was admired by expressionists as the incarnation of the cabaret artist of her time... The shining star of the Voltaire, according to the Zuricher Post (Zurich Post), her role in Dada has not been adequately acknowledged.” (p. 11).
White also cites a poem by Johannes Becher which he uses as evidence that Emmy served as a muse for other artists of the time: "(It was in Munich, at the Café Stefanie, Where I recited for you, Emmy, poems That I dared tell only you,"
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