Café Zartl
The Café Zartl is a Viennese coffee house on Rasumofskygasse at the corner of Marxergasse in the 3rd district of Vienna Landstrasse .
In 1883 a first - initially very simple - café was opened in the newly built corner house at Rasumofskygasse No. 7 near the Rotunda Bridge . Only when Robert Zartl took over the establishment in 1919 did the coffee house come into being as it still looks today: with niches, English linen wallpaper, crystal chandeliers, billiard tables and an original Kolschitzky filter machine .
In the interwar period , the Zartl became a meeting place for writers. The regulars at the time included Robert Musil (who lived just a few houses away at Rasumofskygasse 20), Heimito von Doderer (whose parents' house was in the nearby Stammgasse), Franz Karl Ginzkey and the cabaret artist Karl Farkas .
After the Second World War , the café was reopened and again developed into a meeting place for writers and artists. Here perverse among other Milo Dor , Barbara Frischmuth , Georg Eisler , Alfred Hrdlicka , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Axel Corti , Gottfried von Einem , Friedrich Gulda , Jeannie Ebner and currently Robert Schindel .
The café is mentioned in Heimito of Doderer's novel The Slunj Waterfalls (1963), which existed at the turn of the century in which the story takes place, but not in its later form. Jeannie Ebner wrote her novel The wilderness early summer (1958) and Karl Farkas dedicated the quatrain to the Zartl:
- Go to the café!
- is the slogan on some Kartl today -
- in the cosiest café, beautiful like snow -
- in the Café Zartl!
The Zartl has a small pub garden and a separate room, the Kalanag Salon - named after the famous magician Kalanag - where the Viennese members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians meet.
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 542.
- Hans Veigl : Viennese coffee house manager . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-218-00587-6 , p. 107 ff.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 20 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 40 ″ E