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The Cabaret Fledermaus (also: Cabaret Fledermaus ) is an event location in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City . The original Art Nouveau small art stage designed by Josef Hoffmann was located on Kärntner Strasse at the corner of Johannesgasse from 1907 to 1913 . The Cabaret Fledermaus, newly founded by Gerhard Bronner in 1967, is located in Spiegelgasse and is currently used as a club disco.

An Art Nouveau cabaret

Anteroom of the Fledermaus Cabaret, 1907

The Fledermaus Cabaret was founded in 1907 on the initiative of the Wiener Werkstätte founding member and patron Fritz Wärndorfer in the basement of a house built the year before at Kärntner Strasse 33 at the corner of Johannesgasse 1 and opened on October 19, 1907. The Art Nouveau interior was planned by Josef Hoffmann, the execution was carried out by the Wiener Werkstätte, which acted on its own, as the financing was allegedly secured from advance payments for the construction of the Stoclet Palace . In addition to Hoffmann, a number of well-known artists of the Viennese Art Nouveau were involved in the design, including Gustav Klimt , Oskar Kokoschka , Anton Kling , Koloman Moser , Carl Otto Czeschka and Eduard Wimmer. The interior, including the stage and furniture, as well as posters, postcards, cutlery and the badges of the ushers were designed by the Wiener Werkstätte. The most eye-catching design element of the cabaret was a mosaic consisting of 7,000 majolica panels that covered the walls, bar and cloakroom. The seating group designed by Josef Hoffmann especially for the Fledermaus and manufactured by Jacob & Josef Kohn is still produced today under this name.

The artistic direction was entrusted to the cabaret couple Marc Henry and Marya Delvard , who opened the night light cabaret a year earlier , but which was closed again after a short time. The texts for the cabaret programs came from Peter Altenberg , for example , but above all from the duo Alfred Polgar and Egon Friedell , the so-called Goethe sketch was one of their greatest successes. Friedell took over the management of the bat from 1908 to 1910 , after which, however, the level of what was presented gradually fell. In 1913 the restaurant was sold and reopened as the Femina revue theater . Afterwards it served as a cinema for decades ( Carinthian cinema , Metro vis à vis ) and finally as a dance hall.

In 2020, an accessible reconstruction of the bar was carried out as part of the exhibition “Into the Night. The avant-garde in the night café ”in the Belvedere .

The new "bat" in Spiegelgasse

Cabaret Fledermaus, 2015

In 1967, Gerhard Bronner founded the new Cabaret Fledermaus in the former Marietta-Bar , a cellar restaurant at Spiegelgasse 2 , which at the time was one of the most important cabaret stages in Vienna alongside the Simpl cabaret . Here were, among others, Helmut Qualtinger , Herwig Seeböck , André Heller , Peter Wehle , Lore Krainer , Carl Merz , Louise Martini and Michael Mohapp on. Bronner was Artistic Director of the Bat from 1979 until he moved to the USA in 1988 . Then Götz Kauffmann took over the restaurant, but fell into the "red" and had to close in 1992. From 1993 the jazz club Porgy & Bess rented one, but it was so successful that after almost 5 years it looked around for new premises. Afterwards, the club organizer Oliver Riebenbauer had the bar redesigned into a club disco, again under the name Cabaret Fledermaus . This was taken over in 2004 by the organizers Wolfgang Strobl and Deborah Heiss, since then, in addition to club nights of various musical styles, concerts have occasionally been held.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The beginnings of classic cabaret in Vienna - Das Cabaret Fledermaus ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ ORF.at , February 14, 2020.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 28 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 13 ″  E