Simultaneous poem

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Simultaneous poetry describes a method of poetry used by Dadaism . It developed as urban poetry in the Expressionist period . A simultaneous poem consists of several voices ( texts ) that are performed simultaneously (by several people). Tristan Tzara is considered to be the inventor of this method of poetry , who in March 1916 performed the first simultaneous poem in Cabaret Voltaire together with Richard Huelsenbeck and Marcel Janco . They recited three different texts in three different languages. Hugo Ball noted the appearance of the three Dadaists in his diary:

“Huelsenbeck, Tzara and Janco performed with a 'Poème simultaneous'. This is a contrapuntal recitative in which three or more voices speak, sing, whistle or the like at the same time, in such a way that their encounters make up the elegiac, funny or bizarre content of the matter. The stubbornness of an organon is drastically expressed in such a simultaneous poem, as is its condition through the accompaniment. The noises (a rrrrr drawn for minutes, or rumbling bumps or the howling of sirens and the like), have an existence superior to human voices in terms of energy. The 'Poème simultan' is about the value of the voice. The human organ represents the soul, the individuality in its wandering between demonic companions. The noises represent the background; the inarticulate, the fatal, the determining. The poem seeks to illustrate the entanglement of man in the mechanistic process. In typical abbreviation, it shows the conflict between vox humana and a world that threatens, entangles and destroys it, whose rhythm and sequence of sounds are inescapable ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Hinck : Stations of German poetry: from Luther to the present: 100 poems with interpretations . 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-525-20810-6 , pp. 181 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Daniela Riess-Beger: Life studies: poetic procedures in Friederike Mayröckers prose . 1st edition. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-88479-983-3 , p. 59 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Simultangedicht , kunstwissen.de, accessed on December 4, 2013