Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

v. Background
Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens German Empire and was raised in a middle-class Catholic family. Drei Heiligenleben (zu Joannes Klimax Dionysius Areopagita und Symeon dem Styliten).