Cafe window gazer

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Greetings from the café to the "Fenstergucker" (1912)

The Café Fenstergucker was a coffee house in Vienna and was located in the 1st district of Innere Stadt , at the corner of Kärntner Strasse and Walfischgasse.

history

Between 1808 and 1886 the Schwabenburg (Carl Maria von Weber's apartment in 1823) was located here, and in 1835 Jakob Goldbach moved his coffee house from Naglergasse ("Emperor of Austria") and furnished it with precious furnishings (artistic painting of the rooms, play and Billiard room, from 1840 music box by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel ). From 1843 to 1854 Johann Baptist Corti ran the coffeehouse (Cortisches Kaffeehaus), then his mother.

Cafetier Josef Scheidl celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 16, 1897. He came to Vienna from Dobersberg in Lower Austria in 1847 and, with the literary and artist café Fenstergucker, became one of the most popular Viennese cafetiers after almost ten years. In 1911 the waiter, Leopold Steger, took over his place of work, the café. After Leopold Steger moved to the country after his departure on May 14, 1921, the Fenstergucker became an exchange office for the Bodenkreditanstalt .

It was reopened in 1932, but not by the operator of the Kursalon Hans Hübner, who was considered the favorite among the applicants, but by Caroline Leopoldine Schöner alongside two other applicants and after numerous negotiations . After a renovation by Carl Witzmann, Frau Schöner turned the window gazer into a popular city coffeehouse. Mayor Zitterhofer reported in the Danzer's Army newspaper on February 19, 1932 that Mrs. Schöner, as the new owner, knew how to charmingly build social and culinary bridges from the new to the old and vice versa .

Destroyed by bombs at the end of World War II, it was then converted into a men's clothing store, later an Air France office and, from 2001 to 2016, a Starbucks eatery .

The window peeper in Viennese films

Eight years later, the pre-war café Fenstergucker made it into Viennese films in 1940. The film itself was made in the Wien-Film studio on Rosenhügel . The pre-war window viewer café was recreated in the reception hall. It was there that Geza von Bolvary shot his new film "Wiener G'schichten". According to the script by Ernst Marischka, the "Café Fenstergucker" became the scene of cheerful, contemplative, but also a little darker events, in the midst of which the two rival Ober Ferdinand ( Paul Hörbiger ) and Josef ( Hans Moser ) around the boss, who was secretly loved by Ferdinand , Christine Lechner (Marthe Harell).

literature

  • Bartel F. Sinhuber: A guest in old Vienna. 1989, p. 97 ff.
  • Die Wiener Bühne, VOLUME 17, ISSUE 2 • 26. January 1940

Web links

Commons : Kärntner Straße 49  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mayor Zitterhofer:  The Café Fenstergucker, a dear piece of old Vienna. In:  New Army Newspaper / Danzer's Army Newspaper / Oesterreichische Wehrzeitung. Journal for military issues, politics and economics , February 19, 1932, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / add
  2. ↑ derStandard.at: Unprofitable: Starbucks closes its flagship store in Kärntner Strasse . Article dated June 9, 2016, accessed April 16, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 13.6 ″  E