Anna Sacher
Anna Maria Sacher , née Fuchs (born January 2, 1859 in Vienna ; † February 25, 1930 ibid) was an Austrian hotel owner of the Hotel Sacher of the same name , daughter-in-law of Franz Sacher .
Life
Anna Sacher was the daughter of the butcher Johann Fuchs. Anna Maria grew up in Leopoldstadt , the 2nd district of the Austrian capital, where she attended school and helped out in her father's butcher's shop.
In 1880 she married the restaurateur and hotelier Eduard Sacher (1843-1892), the son of Rosa and Franz Sacher, inventors of the later world-famous " Sachertorte ", which was later made in the hotel's confectionery. The children Eduard junior, Franziska and Anna ("Anni") emerged from the marriage. In 1876, Eduard Sacher opened his hotel on the Vienna Philharmonic Street. Within a few years it was valued for its elegance, exclusivity and top gastronomy. After her husband died in 1892, Anna Sacher took over the management of the house. In the following decades, she made the Hotel Sacher one of the most famous hotels in Europe thanks to her gastronomic knowledge and her unique corporate style. Like her husband before her, Anna Sacher was also appointed purveyor to the imperial court .
The hotel manager has received numerous awards at culinary art exhibitions. Her fondness for cigars and for small French bulldogs (so-called "Sacher-Bullys"), which she also bred herself under her kennel name "Dernier cri", was legendary. In 1929 Anna Maria Sacher retired from the hotel management.
The "Hotel Sacher" has been privately owned by the Gürtler family since 1934.
Anna Sacher was buried in the Dornbacher Friedhof (group 1, number 44) in Vienna. Husband Eduard Sr. is buried in the family crypt at the Helenenfriedhof in Baden near Vienna .
Awards
- Gold medal of merit of the state of Vienna with the crown
- Gold Medal of the Republic of Austria
Appreciation
In the 2016 TV film Das Sacher by Robert Dornhelm , Anna Sacher was played by Ursula Strauss . The documentary film The Queen of Vienna - Anna Sacher and her Hotel by Beate Thalberg , also from 2016, shows a cinematic portrait of Anna Sacher. The feature film Hotel Sacher was made in 1939 . Here Hedwig Bleibtreu plays Anna Sacher.
literature
- W. Filek-Wittinghausen: Sacher Anna. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 366.
- Ingrid Haslinger: Customer - Kaiser. The story of the former imperial and royal purveyors . Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4 .
- János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: KuK purveyors to Vienna's court . Stocker, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-7020-0935-3 . Pp. 10-15.
- Charlotte Natmeßnig: Sacher, Anna. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 323 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Monika Czernin : The last festival of old Europe: Anna Sacher and her hotel . Knaus, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8135-0434-7
Web links
- Entry on Anna Sacher in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Anna Sacher in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Sacher. In good company . ( Memento from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) orf.at; accessed November 30, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sacher, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sacher, Anna Maria (full name); Fuchs, Anna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian hotel owner and restaurateur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1930 |
| Place of death | Vienna |