Biographical Detail: 

1908     Started to pursue a career as a performing artist, travelling and appearing in shows in cities as Moscow, Budapest and Cologne

1913    

• Settled in Munich, where she became an intimate of the expressionist poets, playwrights, and novelists
• Met Hugo Ball (writer and philosopher) in Munich while performing at the Café Simplizissimus and later married him

Spring 1914     Hennings was arrested and imprisoned for forging passports; she was released and the charges dropped after six weeks of claiming her innocence

Nov 1914     Joined Ball in Berlin, sang at restaurants and worked as an artist’s model

1915     Hennings and Ball fled to Zurich, Switzerland in order to escape the increasing nationalism in Berlin

1916     The couple decided to start a cabaret, the Cabaret Voltaire, which they opened on February 5, 1916; Hennings is one of the star attractions at the cabaret: she presented international songs and ballads as well as her own poems and poetry written by other Dadaists

1920     Underwent a conversion to Catholicism by being baptized and distanced herself from the Dada movement; in the same year, she married Hugo Ball