Jean Arp was born on 16 September 1887 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. He was a writer and actor, known for
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003),
Die Glocken sind auf falscher Spur (1971) and
1-Paart-Dorp (1991). He died on 7 June 1966 in Basel, Switzerland.