The Girl from Gotha

Lise Colas
4 min readJun 18, 2018

A cut out and keep tribute to Dada artist Hannah Höch

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‘Achtung! The girls are going up in smoke — their lovely stockings will be mortally singed, what a tragedy. The culprit is probably that englischer gentleman — stubby cigar held between finger and thumb. He’s standing far too close for comfort and seems rather louche —’ Alas, your witty sketch for a Dada anti-revue, signed ‘HH’ was extinguished at the concept stage. Another…

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Lise Colas

writes poetry and short fiction as well as quirky unreliable memoir and lives on the south coast of England.