Kurt Schwitters was born in Hannover in 1887. Refused by the Berlin Dadaists, he started a one-man Dada group in Hannover called Merz . He made paintings, collages and objects; he wrote poems ...

On hearing Hausmann's sound poem "fmsbw" in 1921, Schwitters immediately recognized the great potential of Sound Poetry and with great logic and concentration, he built up a totally abstract piece ...