In wartime Zurich, Cabaret Voltaire opened at Spiegelgasse 1 while Lenin lived farther along the same street. The proximity is documented; a personal encounter is not.
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1916
Spiegelgasse 1, Zurich, Switzerland
Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings helped found Cabaret Voltaire here on 5 February 1916. Its evenings mixed poetry, performance and opposition to the conventions of wartime Europe. Lenin was living at Spiegelgasse 14 during this period. The two addresses show how political exile and experimental art occupied one short street without implying that their protagonists met.
1916–1917
Spiegelgasse 14, Zurich, Switzerland
Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya lived at Spiegelgasse 14 during their Swiss exile. A plaque on the building records that connection. The home was a short walk from Cabaret Voltaire, yet no documented collaboration or meeting joins Lenin with the Dada artists. Their shared street is the point of this story.
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