Café Hawelka

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Café Hawelka

The Café Hawelka is an artist café in the 1st  District of Vienna , Inner City , in the Dorotheergasse  . 6

history

Interior of the cafe
Insight into the café

Café Hawelka was opened in 1939 by Leopold Hawelka . Hawelka had previously run Kaffee Alt Wien on Bäckerstraße , also in the 1st district, since 1936 , and then took over Café Ludwig-Carl on Dorotheergasse in May 1939 together with his wife Josefine . The Chatham Bar, which opened in 1912, was originally located here. After the outbreak of war , the café had to close again because Leopold Hawelka was drafted into the Wehrmacht . In autumn 1945 it was reopened by the Hawelkas in the largely still intact building.

After the end of the occupation , the café quickly developed into a meeting place for writers and critics such as Heimito von Doderer , Albert Paris Gütersloh , Hilde Spiel , Friedrich Torberg and Hans Weigel from 1955 .

After the Herrenhof café closed in 1961, more artists moved here, and the Hawelka became the most important meeting place for the Viennese art scene of the time. The regular guests included Friedrich Achleitner , HC Artmann , Konrad Bayer , Ernst Fuchs , Richard Matouschek , Alfred Hrdlicka , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Rudolf Hausner , Wolfgang Hutter , Helmut Qualtinger , Gerhard Rühm and Oskar Werner .

In the 1960s and 1970s, the café experienced its heyday with its atmosphere characterized by artists and individualists. Efforts to achieve monument protection status for the café , whereby the statutory smoking ban would not have applied, failed at the beginning of 2011.

Heimito von Doderer wrote about Hawelka in 1960: “It is already known in London, and people from Paris and the Netherlands also come to Café Hawelka” - and why: “In the end, only because Mr Hawelka is not renovating.” In In fact, the interior of the premises, which is said to have been designed by a student of the architect Adolf Loos , has remained unchanged since 1912.

Josefine Hawelka died on Tuesday, March 22, 2005, her only day of rest during the week , after running the café with her husband Leopold for 66 years. She had also baked the local specialty, the Buchteln , according to the recipe of her Bohemian mother-in-law. Until his death in December 2011, Leopold Hawelka often sat at the entrance and greeted arriving guests.

Since the death of the coffee house owner, the Buchteln have been prepared by son Günter according to the old recipe and baked by Amir Hawelka. The grandchildren Amir and Michael continue to run the café today.

Cultural and media

Café Hawelka inspired Georg Danzer to write his song Jö schau / so a Sau / jössas na / what does a Nockerter like in Hawelka? .

The Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk also refers to the Hawelka in their song Trans Europa Express , but without specifying the name (in Vienna we sit in the night café) . The café is also mentioned in the song Hawelka by the Dutch band Nits . The Stuttgart band Hawelka chose their name based on the café .

The documentary film Queen Josephine - The Hawelkas and their café , shot in 2002, portrayed the couple and the history of their café. In the fall of 2009, the book May one as Nackerta in Hawelka? - Etiquette for advanced students by Helmut A. Gansterer .

In the novel Rohstoff by the writer Jörg Fauser , published in 1984, the protagonist Harry Gelb, an unsuccessful author and temporary night watchman, visits Café Hawelka in chapter 35 from page 209.

See also

  • A. Hawełka , a pub founded in 1913 by Anton Hawelka (allegedly a relative of Leopold Hawelka) in Krakow .

literature

Web links

Commons : Café Hawelka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cafe Hawelka Vienna. History ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed January 5, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hawelka.akis.at
  2. ↑ a b Hawelkas Künstlertreff, Buchtelhochburg, tourist magnet In: Der Standard , December 29, 2011. Retrieved on January 5, 2012.
  3. ^ The regular guest Heimito von Doderer In: Die Zeit 40/2001, September 27, 2001. Accessed on January 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Leopold Hawelka: A life in the coffee house In: Der Standard , December 29, 2011. Retrieved on January 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ Leopold Hawelka: A Myth Lives In: Kleine Zeitung , December 30, 2011. Accessed on January 5, 2012. “One artist, however, became known through the 'Hawelka': Georg Danzer, creator of the song Jö schau… , in which the naked man is sung about in the Hawelka . "
  6. ↑ skug | MUSIC CULTURE | Power plant . In: skug . May 25, 2004 ( skug.at [accessed April 4, 2018]).
  7. ^ The band Hawelka.Retrieved May 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ Can you go to Hawelka as a Nackerta? ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 7, 2009.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ichlese.at
  9. ↑ History of Hawełka, online at: www.hawelka.pl ( Memento of 16 November 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Legendary Hawelka café traditions in Krakow and Vienna ( Memento from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '28.4 "  N , 16 ° 22' 9.7"  E