Café Prückel
The Café Prückel (formerly: Café Lurion ) is a coffee house on the corner of Stubenring and Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt . The coffee house is particularly well-known for its furnishings in the style of the 1950s. It is a listed building .
history
In 1903, the former European cycling champion Maxime Lurion opened the coffee house Lurion, as it was called at the time. The location for a coffee house was optimally chosen for then and now, which is why the coffee house flourished. The interior was designed in the style of Hans Makart and as an attraction the guests could admire a speaking clock .
On November 7, 1931, the actress Stella Kadmon founded her cabaret "Der liebe Augustin" in a stage room in the basement of the café, where Peter Hammerschlag and Gerhart Herrmann Mostar worked until March 1938 and the numerous artists who fled Nazi Germany a place of work bot. Therese Palouda, grandmother of today's Prückel owner Christl Sedlar and at that time the owner of the café, waived the room rent for a "consumption share". After exile from 1938 to 1947, Kadmon continued to run the Prückel stage under the name Theater der Courage until it changed venues in 1960. The basement stage has been preserved to this day and is used as "KiP - Art in Prückel" with theater and cabaret programs. The stage was used in 2013 as an “important place of exile” by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies for the commemorative event “80 Years of Book Burning”.
In the 1950s, the coffee house was redesigned after Oswald Haerdtl and received the look that is typical of the Prückel today in the style of the 50s.
In the 1980s, the rear wing of the coffee house was restored to its original Art Nouveau design, while the front part facing the Ringstrasse remained in the 1950s style.
Also noteworthy is the still original sun blind from the time the café was built, which provides shade for the pub garden along Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz.
The prückel today
The coffee house is mainly frequented by locals and students from the University of Applied Arts across the street and, unlike other downtown coffee houses, is less frequented by tourists. A special program is offered on certain days of the week, for example piano music, song recitals or literature readings. In addition to the various coffee specialties , warm dishes and numerous pastries from our own production are also available.
In January 2015, numerous media outlets, such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 20 Minuten or Der Spiegel , reported that the manager of the café expelled a lesbian couple who had kissed. Various associations, above all the Aktion Kritischer Schülerinnen and Pupils , criticized the incident , which was perceived as homophobic . On January 15, 2015, the managing director apologized to those affected in a broadcast sent to the Austria Press Agency “in all forms”. Around 2,000 people took part in a protest rally in the immediate vicinity of the café on January 16, 2015. The company was closed that day.
specialty
The house specialty is Prückel Creme , a small mocha with whipped cream .
literature
- Café Prückel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Hans Veigl : Viennese coffee house manager . Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00587-6 .
- Bartel F. Sinhuber: A guest in old Vienna. Memories of hotels, taverns and coffee houses, beer cellars, wine bars and excursion restaurants . Amalthea, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85002-409-1 .
- Ernestine Stadler, Frank Taubenheim: Really Viennese: About people and their shops in Vienna . European Publishing House, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-434-50597-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ So far four cafes under monument protection on ORF Vienna from December 25, 2010
- ↑ KiP. Art in prückel
- ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon: Stella Kadmon
- ^ VWI: Invitation to May 10, 2013
- ^ Café Prückel: Worldwide echo after Kuss-Eklat , Krone.at from January 13, 2015
- ↑ Cafe Prückel. A kiss on everyone's lips , wienerzeitung.at, 14 January 2015
- ^ Kiss: Lesbian couple from Prückel referred to ORF Vienna from January 11, 2015
- ↑ Prückel boss apologizes , wien.orf.at, January 15, 2015
- ↑ Kiss protest in front of Café Prückel: "Liebe, keine Andersartigkeit" , derstandard.at, January 16, 2015
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 27.3 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 49.4" E