Café Hummel
The Café Hummel is a traditional coffee house in Vienna's 8th District in the Josefstädterstraße 66. It is among the largest of the approximately 1,100 coffee houses in Vienna .
history
Café Hummel was originally called Café Parsival (also known as Café Parsifal ) and was opened as such in the 1870s. In 1935 it was taken over by Karl Hummel, whose family has been running the coffee house ever since. In 1967 Georg Hummel and his wife Erzsébet, of Hungarian descent, succeeded their father. Georg had the café expanded into a café-restaurant in 1973 and subsequently rebuilt it several times. The Josefstüberl , a smaller night club, was added and a club room with satellite TV and live broadcasts for sports fans and opportunities for chess and card players was opened in 2001. The daughter of Georg and Erzsébet, Christina Hummel, has been running Café Hummel since 2005. In 2012 the coffeehouse underwent an interior renovation.
Ambience, audience
The furnishings in Café Hummel are reminiscent of the 1970s with its brown leatherette -covered seating. Old postcard enlargements with motifs from the Parsival period decorate the walls. The restaurant has been a non-smoking restaurant since May 1st, 2017. In summer there is a large pub garden with an awning in front of the street facing the pedestrian zone. Café Hummel, which does not have a day of rest and is also open on public holidays, serves dishes from the extensive menu, with goulash and vegetarian cuisine as specialties .
The audience, who has a large selection of international newspapers at their disposal, is made up of bourgeois neighbors , artists and young people. Even in the days of Café Parsival , well-known artists regularly visited the coffee house, for example the Austrian writer and theater critic Robert Musil , who worked there together with the art historian Bruno Fürst, the writer Oskar Maurus Fontana , the playwright Franz Theodor Csokor and the Silesian textile industrialist Hans Hubert Pinkus later formed the regulars' table in the Hummel from 1934 to 1938.
The Café Hummel has also been the scene of cultural events and readings in recent times. As part of the Vienna Crime Night 2006, for example, Adi Hirschal gave a reading there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/Essay/frise1.html ( Memento from November 18, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) Questions about Robert Musil - keywords about his biography
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ' N , 16 ° 21' E