Café Laumer

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Café Laumer

The Café Laumer is a café in Frankfurt's Westend . It was founded in 1919 - there is also the indication of 1925 - and is considered an institution and traditional café in the city.

history

The café was founded in 1919, according to another source not until 1925. Originally located in the corner house at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 44 / Fichardstrasse , Laumer bought the house at Bockenheimer Landstrasse 67 in 1925 and converted it into his main business. It is still there today. The city of Frankfurt am Main has owned the house since the 1970s. Readers of the weekly magazine Die Weltbühne met in Laumer since 1929.

A group of left-wing intellectuals from Frankfurt University, known informally as the “Kränzchen”, also met here regularly in the 1920s. Kurt Riezler , Paul Tillich , Max Horkheimer , Karl Mannheim and Theodor W. Adorno were among the "leading figures" .

The café was important in connection with the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , as the student resistance group Lupus, led by the then Wehrmacht officer and law student Adalbert Fahrenholz , met in this restaurant to support the conspiracy against Hitler from Frankfurt.

In the 1950s, the future Chancellor Helmut Kohl was also a guest in this café during his studies.

In the 1950s and 1960s the café served as a meeting place for important representatives of the Frankfurt School , Theodor W. Adorno was a regular guest, and Herbert Marcuse , Max Horkheimer and Kurt Riezler were also visitors. During this time the Laumer was also known as “Café Marx”.

During the events of the 1968 movement there were tumultuous scenes in and around the café. Attempts were made to storm the café and pieces of cake were thrown at the café. People such as Rainer Langhans , Fritz Teufel , possibly also the occasional guest and later Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer were involved in these actions .

At the time of the annual Frankfurt Book Fair in the 1980s, the café was the temporary "headquarters" of Rowohlt Verlag and was also referred to as "Café Rowohlt" during the book fair.

Bankruptcy and continuation

After the death of long-time owner Michael Rimbach, his over-indebtedness was revealed, which led to his son Andreas rejecting the inheritance. As a result, an application for bankruptcy had to be filed in December 2010 . With the participation of the property owner, an agreement was reached with new investors in March 2011 so that the café could continue to exist.

Today the Laumer is both a café and a pastry shop and restaurant . It was initially operated by Grand Café GmbH , which also went bankrupt.

On February 1, 2012, the Café Laumer was taken over by the Bad Sodener Café Merci GmbH, which today operates under the name Café Laumer GmbH .

literature

  • Paul Arnsberg : Pictures from Jewish life in old Frankfurt , W. Kramer, 1970, ISBN 9783782900997
  • Richard Faber and Eva-Maria Ziege (eds.): The field of the Frankfurt cultural and social sciences before 1945 , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 9783826031656
  • Maria Gazzetti: Frankfurt: Literary Walks , Fischer Taschenbücher, Frankfurt 2005 ISBN 9783596169351

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Arnsberg: Pictures from Jewish life in old Frankfurt, p. 189
  2. ↑ a b food service 3/1994, p. 44
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung , 12/2011 edition, p. 29
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Klötzer Visiting the old Frankfurt, Munich 1990, p. 198
  5. ^ Stefan Müller-Doohm: Adorno. A biography . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 217.
  6. ^ FNP, accessed November 1, 2011
  7. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Cake alarm in Café Laumer. fr-online.de, December 14, 2012, accessed on November 22, 2013 .
  8. ↑ fr-online, accessed on November 1, 2011
  9. ↑ Richard Faber, Eva-Maria Ziege (ed.): The field of the Frankfurt cultural and social sciences before 1945 , p. 79
  10. ↑ faz.net, accessed November 1, 2011
  11. ↑ fr-online, accessed on November 1, 2011
  12. ↑ fr-online, accessed on November 1, 2011
  13. ↑ a b TextilWirtschaft , edition 30/1993, p. 67
  14. ↑ "Café Laumer" saved - it used to be a hot spot
  15. ^ Gazzetti: Frankfurt: Literary Walks , p. 28
  16. ^ Henriette Nebling: Café Laumer files for bankruptcy. From: genussmagazin-frankfurt.de , December 20, 2010, accessed on November 22, 2013.
  17. ↑ rmt-magazin, accessed on November 1, 2011
  18. ↑ Christian Scheh: Café Laumer is saved. fnp.de, February 4, 2012, accessed November 22, 2013 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 44.5 ″  E