Emmy Hennings (born Emma Maria Cordsen; also known as Emmy Ball-Hennings) was a poet and performing artist, and, with Hugo Ball, founder of the Dadaist Cabaret Voltaire. A vulnerable artist, the poet Erich Mühsam called her an "erotic genius"; for Hermann Hesse she was "a fairy-tale bird and a little angel"; and her partner Hugo Ball asked admiringly: "Are you aware of the sheer power of your singing voice?" That Hennings was able to radiate such magic is remarkable – not least because her life was plagued by material and psychological hardship, displacement, drugs, prostitution, illness and prison. She struggled with various disabilities throughout her life, but the power of her poetry and charismatic stage presence outshone the misery and privations.

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