Café Herrenhof

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Café Herrenhof, women's salon (1914)

The Café Herrenhof was an important Viennese literary café founded in 1914 from the interwar period . It was located at Herrengasse 10 in the First District and was finally closed in 2006.

history

The building in which the coffee house was located was built in 1913 by Viktor Siedek (1856–1937). The reform school of the pedagogue Eugenie Schwarzwald was located on the top two floors (at the address Wallnerstraße 9) .

In 1914, Béla Waldmann acquired extensive premises in the lower part of the building and opened the “Café Herrenhof” there, together with Markus Klug, in the same year. He had the interior design designed by the architect Stefan Fayans (1879–1942).

In 1916 Franz Blei established a literary-artistic get-together in Café Herrenhof, which included Robert Musil , Gina Kaus , Albert Paris Gütersloh , Friedrich Eckstein , Alfred Polgar , Ea von Allesch , from 1917 also Hermann Broch , from March 1918 also Ernst Polak and Milena Jesenská .

There was also an art room in the Herrenhof café , where temporary exhibitions were held; works by Emma Löwenstamm and Erwin Pendl were shown here in 1917 .

The Herrenhof Bar was reopened on September 14, 1918 after a “complete refurbishment” with a concert by Hermann Leopoldi .

From November 1918, shortly after the First World War and the founding of the republic - and after the death of Peter Altenberg - many other Viennese writers who had previously visited the Café Central and the Café Museum also made Café Herrenhof their ancestral home, and they did so before preferred the back room.

In many sources (for example Harald B.Segel) the year 1918 is wrongly stated as the opening year of the coffee house. This is primarily due to the historically incorrect essay Central und Herrenhof (1926) by Anton Kuh , in which he sets the founding of the republic and the founding of the Herrenhof café in parallel. (Similarly then Friedrich Torberg in Die Tante Jolesch .)

The heyday of the café ended in 1938, after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich , Béla Waldmann was expropriated because of his Jewish descent and the café was "Aryanized" on March 19 .

After the Second World War , it was continued under the former head waiters Albert Kainz and Franz Hnatek, but could no longer follow the old tradition and was closed in 1961. After that, Café Hawelka developed into a new “scene meeting place”.

The Herrenhof café was reopened in 1967 as a kind of espresso in the restaurant, which had been reduced from the original 750 to 60 square meters. It closed its doors forever on June 30, 2006 after the entire building was converted for a hotel chain in 2007/08; On December 1st, 2008 the “ Steigenberger Hotel Herrenhof” opened there .

Artists and scientists who frequented Café Herrenhof

The regular guests included:

Ea von Allesch , Franz Blei , Hermann Broch , Elias Canetti , Heimito von Doderer , Friedrich Eckstein , Otto Gross , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Milena Jesenská , Gina Kaus , Egon Erwin Kisch , Otfried Krzyzanowski , Anton Kuh , Maria Lazar , Robert Musil , Leo Perutz , Otto Pick , Ernst Polak , Alfred Polgar , Walther Rode , Joseph Roth , Moritz Schlick , Otto Soyka , Hugo Sperber , Hilde Spiel , Friedrich Torberg , Franz Werfel and Ludwig Wittgenstein .

Literary descriptions

  • Karl Kraus immortalized the coffee house in a satire.
  • Friedrich Torberg immortalized the atmosphere of the café in anecdotes in 1975 in his volume of short stories Die Tante Jolesch or the fall of the West .

literature

Web links

Commons : Café Herrenhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Fayans: Café Herrenhof. In: The Architect. Year 1919, p. 73 (main part)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Café Herrenhof. In: Vienna History Wiki. wien.gv.at , accessed on October 17, 2018 (Source: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien).
  3. ↑ a b c d curfew forever in the "Herrenhof". In: The Standard . November 14, 2007, accessed September 27, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Viktor Siedek. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  5. ^ Eugenie Black Forest. In: Vienna History Wiki. wien.gv.at , accessed on October 17, 2018 (Source: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien).
  6. ↑ Stefan Fayans. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Architekturzentrum Wien , accessed on September 27, 2014 .
  7. ↑ read about in Gina Kaus: And what a life ... Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Hamburg 1979, or: Frauke Severit: Ea von Allesch: When women become people . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3824443694
  8. ^ "Wiener Abendpost" (supplement to the Wiener Zeitung ), March 26, 1917, p. 7
  9. ^ New 8 o'clock paper , September 14, 1918, p. 2
  10. ^ A b c Harold B. Segel: The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890–1938. 1995, pp. 27-29 , accessed on September 27, 2014 (English, Googlebooks).
  11. ↑ Steigenberger Hotel "Herrenhof". Reconstruction, renovation 2007–2008. (No longer available online.) In: voitl.at . Voitl & Co. Baugesellschaft mbH, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on September 28, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / voitl.at
  12. ↑ Viennese coffee house literature. (No longer available online.) In: WienWiki . Wiener Zeitung , archived from the original on September 28, 2014 ; accessed on September 28, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wienwiki.wienerzeitung.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 37 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 57 ″  E