DADA Companion -- Johannes Baader | Published Correspondence

published correspondence
Baader's more important manuscripts, his letters, shorter writings, and ephemera are published in dispersed archival volumes. The most important one is the volume edited by Eva Züchner, Scharfrichter der bürgerlichen Seele - Raoul Hausmann in Berlin 1900-1933. Unveröffentlichte Briefe, Texte, Dokumente aus den Künstler-Archiven der Berlinischen Galerie [anlässlich des Erscheinens dieser Archiv-Edition veranstaltet die Berlinische Galerie die Ausstellung Raoul Hausmann und Seine Freunde in der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 22. Februar-29. März 1998] / Ausstellung Raoul Hausmann und Seine Freunde (Berlinische Galerie etc. : Berlin 1998) [Cited as Scharfrichter]. See also the list of anthologies.

CORRESPONDENCE
Paul Ernst
[Letter, dated July 19, 1918]. Facsimile in Hanne Bergius, Das Lachen Dadas (Gießen 1989) 151.

Salomo Friedlaender
[Letter, dated 23 February 1915, Berlin]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted in Scharfrichter, page 47-50 (15/1).

Walter Gropius
Correspondence, dated May-June 1920. Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin. Reprinted in facsimile in Oberdada. Schriften, Manifeste, Flugblätter, Billets, Werke und Taten (Gießen-Lahn 1977) 125-126.

Elfriede Hausmann
[Postcard, dated 21 March 1914, Hamburg]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted in Scharfrichter, page 46-47 (14/3).
[Letter, dated 24 July 1918, Plessow]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted in Scharfrichter, page 76-77 (18/3a).
[Postcard (Solus-Karte}, dated 4 August 1918, Plessow]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted/facsimile in Scharfrichter, page 78-79 (18/4).
[Letter, dated 15 August 1918, Berlin]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted in Scharfrichter, page 80-82 (18/6).
[Postcard, dated 23 August 23, 1918]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin [BG-RHA 429]. Facsimile in Adrian V. Sudhalter, Johannes Baader and the Demise of Wilhelmine Culture (New York University 2005) 407; also reprinted/facsimile in Scharfrichter, page 82-83 (18/7).

Raoul Hausmann
[Postcard, dated 27 June 1912, Hamburg]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted/facsimile in Scharfrichter, page 36-37 (12/1).
[Postcard, dated 20 August 1912, Hamburg]. Raoul Hausmann Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted/facsimile in Scharfrichter, page 38-41 (12/2).

Hannah Höch
[Postcard, from Hausmann and Baader, dated 1 September [or 1 November 1919]. Collage with photographic fragments. Hannah Höch Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Facsimile in Adrian V. Sudhalter, Johannes Baader and the Demise of Wilhelmine Culture (New York University 2005) 412.
[Note, dated "Ag. i" (July 1, 1919)]. Hannah Höch Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Facsimile in Adrian V. Sudhalter, Johannes Baader and the Demise of Wilhelmine Culture (New York University 2005) 447.
[Letter, 16 July 1920, Berlin]. Hannah Höch Archiv, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Reprinted in Hannah Höch. Eine Lebenscollage 1889-1920 / hrsg. Berlinische Galerie, in collaboration with Cornelia Thater-Schulz. Vol. 1, 2nd part 1919-1920 (Argon : Berlin 1989).

Hoffmann
[Letter, from Hausmann and Baader to the Minster of Culture, dated 17 November 1918]. Facsimile in Hanne Bergius, Das Lachen Dadas (Gießen-Lahn 1989) 156-157.

Erwin Loewenson
[Postcard, dated 18 May 1918]. Schiller Nationalmuseum/Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar. Nachlaß Erin Loewenson. Facsimile in Adrian V. Sudhalter, Johannes Baader and the Demise of Wilhelmine Culture (New York University 2005) 407.

I.B. Neumann
[Letter, dated "Bl. 13" (November 13, 1920)]. I.B. Neumann Papers, Museum of Modern Art Archive, New York.

Reinhold Seeberg
[Letter to the rector of the University of Berlin, Reinhold Seeberg, dated 21 October 1918]. Schiller Nationalmuseum/Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach am Neckar. Facsimile in Oberdada. Schriften, Manifeste, Flugblätter, Billets, Werke und Taten (Gießen-Lahn 1977) 37.

Tristan Tzara
In the early 1980s, Richard Sheppard set a standard for the scholarly publication of documentary materials in his presentation of a group of Baader's letters to Tristan Tzara in 'Twelve Unpublished or Partially Published Items by Johannes Baader (1918-1921)', in Richard Sheppard (ed.), New Studies in Dada. Essays and Documents (Hutton Press : London 1981) 144-158. The original letters are in the Tristan Tzara Papers, housed at the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris.
[Letter, dated 15 February 1925, Hamburg], in Der Freihafen 7, no. 7 ([1925?]) 10; facsimile and reprinted in Oberdada. Schriften, Manifeste, Flugblätter, Billets, Werke und Taten (Gießen-Lahn 1977) 115-119.

OPEN LETTERS
[Letter to "Teure Präsidenten und Präsidentinnen", dated June 4, 19??]. Reprinted/facsimile in Oberdada. Schriften, Manifeste, Flugblätter, Billets, Werke und Taten (Gießen-Lahn 1977) 84-85.