Walter Serner

Walter Serner (born Walter Eduard Seligmann, 1889–1942) was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia. He worked as a journalist and art critic and became known as an essayist, writer and Dadaist. From 1914, he was associated with Dada in Zurich. Among his best-known writings is the Dadaist manifesto *Letzte Lockerung, manifest dada* (often translated as *Last Loosening*). Persecuted under the Nazi regime, Serner spent some time in the Prague ghetto; he died in a concentration or extermination camp in 1942.