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Tristan Tzara

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Birth Date 1896

Death Date 1963

Personal Name Samuel Rosenstock

Alternate Names

  • Tristan Ruia

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian Jewish avant-garde poet. In the early 1910s, he was an editor of the Simbolul ("The Symbol") magazine with Ion Vinea. In 1915 he left Romania and went to Zurich, Switzerland. Here, at Cabaret Voltaire, he was one of the founders of the Dada movement.