Walter SernerWalter Serner was born in 1889 to a Jewish family in Carlsbad, Bohemia and studied law in Vienna. When World War I started, he escaped to Switzerland in 1914 and participated in Dada activities in Zürich, Geneva, and Paris, editing and writing for nuerous magazines and composing his infamous "Dada Manifesto" in 1918. His books were banned and burned by Nazi Germany. He ultimately settled in Prague in the 1930s with his longtime partner, Dorothea Herz. They unsuccessfully tried to escape to Shanghai when Nazi Germany occupied the country and were deported "East" in 1942, perishing near Riga. Read More Read Less