Jedermann sein eigner Fussball

Cover of the first edition of the publication Everyman His Own Football (German: Jedermann sein eigner Fussball)

Jedermann sein eigner Fussball ("Everyman His Own Football") was an illustrated bimonthly magazine published by Malik Verlag (Wieland Herzfelde's publishing house). The satirical periodical in tabloid format was published on 15 February 1919, and confiscated immediately on publication by the police. It included two photomontages by John Heartfield on the front cover and six line drawings by George Grosz. Texts by Herzfelde, Walter Mehring, Mynona; other contributors jointly credited include Richard Huelsenbeck, Erwin Piscator, Karl Nierendorf, and J.H. Kuhlemann. The cover's typeface and layout used satirise contemporary trends in conservative German newspaper design.

The issue contains photomontages such as Heartfield’s "Wer ist der Schönste? (who is the most beautiful?)," a proposed beauty contest of government leaders whose faces are playfully spread across an open fan. In spite of its absurdist amusements, this singular issue was a work of impassioned radical opinion, published only a few weeks after the communist revolt in Berlin had been quashed by Gustav Noske's Free Corps, and Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg murdered. "Jedermann sein eigner Fussball" is an example of Berlin Dada in its most aggravated political phase.

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Artists' Books

Early precursors	Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Expressionism and Cubism	Du "Cubisme", Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Edition Figuière, Paris, 1912 (First English edition: Cubism, Unwin, London, 1913) The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations, Guillaume Apollinaire, published by Eugène Figuière Éditeurs, Collection "Tous les Arts", Paris, 1913 La Peinture et ses lois, ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme (Painting and its Laws), Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1924 (published in English in 2000) Klänge La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France

Futurism, Vorticism and Dada	Zang Tumb Tumb Tango With Cows BLAST BÏF§ZF+18 Universal War Jedermann sein eigner Fussball An Anna Blume Russian Ballet

Constructivism, Surrealism and Modernism	Une semaine de bonté Jazz

Lettrism, Situationism, Nouveau réalisme and Arte Povera	Yves Peintures Fin de Copenhague Mémoires Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle Linee Dimanche

Pop Art	25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy Twentysix Gasoline Stations A Humument

Fluxus and Conceptual art	Literaturwurst Topographie Anécdotée du Hasard Water Yam Grapefruit Fluxus 1 Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard

Artists' books since 1980	Die-Cut Plug Wiring Diagram Book

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