Caroline Leopoldine Beautiful

Caroline "Lina" Leopoldine Schöner , geb. Caroline Eder (* 1882 in Vienna ; † 1965 there ) was an Austrian restaurateur . Together with her husband Andreas Carl Schöner (1876–1951), she was in charge of building a “Viennese gastronomy empire” in the first half of the 20th century and contributed to the development of Viennese coffee houses and restaurants.

Life

Former restaurant Schöner, Siebensterngasse 19 (2014)

To the green column - Siebensterngasse 17

Lina Schöner was born in 1882. She appeared in public in 1903 as Miss Lina Eder at the side of the innkeeper Andreas Karl Schöner at various balls in Vienna, for example at the XV. The Innkeepers' Cooperative Charity Ball or the Carneval Hotelier Ball. On May 14, 1903, the two married; on February 18, 1904, their son Josef Schöner was born, who later became known as a diplomat.

Restaurant nicer

The restaurant Schöner , reopened in 1903 at Siebensterngasse 19 , achieved fame as a “Vorstadtsacher”; However, there was an inn at the address in the middle of a former Viennese wine-growing region since 1632.

Among the first guests in 1903 was the British King Edward VII on a state visit to Vienna. The “little chronicle” of the Schöner family also mentions the visit of Alfons XIII in 1907 . , King of Spain, the Viennese actor Alexander Girardi , also Alexander Joseph Graf Kolowrat-Krakowsky , also known as Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky, founder of the Austrian film industry .

While her husband Andreas Carl was on the war mission from 1914 onwards, Lina Schöner managed the headquarters almost on her own, and with great success. After 1918, the couple built up a “true gastronomy empire” based on the success of the Schöner restaurant as the parent company.

The restaurant in the Hotel Sacher , with its exquisite cuisine and legendary séparées, was the first address in Vienna until the First World War , which in the following economically difficult years did not leave the house unaffected. As early as 1925, Die Bühne wrote about a comparison between Sacher and Schöner: “Of course there are still people who eat at the Sacher. The Sacher used to be the strongest expression of good cuisine. ... The restaurant in Vienna today is actually the nicer one on Siebensterngasse. This is where society meets, those who would like to be part of it, and those whom the job forces, as it were, to lead a public life. Actors, directors, writers, movie stars, bank directors, beautiful women of yesterday and beautiful women of tomorrow. Ermine fur without content and content, nor without ermine fur, they all sit in the small, cozy rooms that created a new inn culture during the war, talking about everything that just didn't happen today. The Schöne is the news center of social Vienna ... "

The following coffeehouses , all of which are located in the inner city , were taken over one after the other .

Café Casa Piccola

In May 1918, the large Viennese coffee house Café Casa Piccola at Mariahilfer Straße 1b in Mariahilf was sold to the restaurateur Schöner . She was able to acquire this from the owner Carl Obertimpfler . Obertimpfler, a popular figure in the Viennese coffee maker cooperative, had invested most of his fortune in war bonds and lost it, which is why he was no longer able to run the coffee house. But until his death in 1927 at the age of 82, he continued to work in this coffee house. The Schöner family took care of his food, accommodation and care. In her biography of Obertimpfler's daughter, the actress Lina Loos , the writer Lisa Fischer writes : “The new owner, Lina Schöner, took care of the original and provided it with food.” (P. 143)… “The father also had Lina More beautifully used as a universal heiress, as she had had issues in recent years that by far exceeded the value of his estate. Lina Schöner, the new owner of Casa Piccola, who owned another restaurant in Siebensterngasse, took over the costs of the funeral and thus received the right to use the urn square at the central cemetery. "(P. 168)

After Obertimpfler's death, Lina Schöner commissioned the famous architect Carl Witzmann to redesign the coffee house. The reopening took place in October 1928. The Wiener Sonn- und Mondagszeitung wrote: "An interior from Witzmann and dishes from Schöner, the most spoiled can not ask for more."

Cafe Carlton

Café Carlton , Maysedergasse 2, followed in 1927 , and in 1928 it began full restaurant operations. In this context, the Neue Wiener Journal and the Neue Freie Presse reported : "Frau Schöner has become a household name in Viennese culinary art."

Cafe window gazer

In 1932, Café Fenstergucker ( Kärntner Strasse 47), popular among the officers, was taken over. Originally, the "son of Frau Schöner" was supposed to take over the management, but he completed the court year 1932–1933 and joined the Austrian Foreign Service on December 1, 1933.

Café Heinrichshof

In 1934/1935 the Café Heinrichshof ( Opernring 3) was taken over.

Further restorations and leases

The Schöner family leased the Krieau dairy as well as the restaurants in the Vienna stadium and the stadium pool as well as the buffet in the exhibition center . Lina Schöner was also appointed to the Board of Directors of Hotel Krantz AG (Hotel Ambassador at Neuer Markt 5) in October 1928.

The central administration of the Schöner companies

The central office of the Schöner companies was on the first floor of the Hotel Astoria. The Hotel Astoria owned by Anton and Maria Hanl and the Café Carlton were located just behind the Hotel Sacher. Some rooms on the first floor of the then Hotel Astoria opposite the Hotel Sacher were shared by Mrs. Schöner and Mrs. Hanl. Josef Schöner named the owner, widow Maria Hanl, Aunt Mili in his diary .

1945 and the post-war years

Grave of the Schöner family

After 1945, as a result of bomb damage, only the Cafe Casa Piccola continued until 1962 and the main restaurant, the Schöner restaurant, until 1951, which housed a restaurant for US military personnel from 1946 to 1949.

After the Austria Wochenschau had settled in the house of the Schöner family in 1949, the Schöne restaurant became a meeting place for society from the international film industry. The garden hall, which can accommodate around 200 people, was used as a cinema to show the films produced on the first floor.

In 1954, Lina Schöner was awarded the honorary title of Commercial Councilor. Lina Schöner died at the end of 1965 and was buried on January 7, 1966 in the family grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 30B, row 14, number 19), where her husband had been buried as early as 1951.

Work and portrait of Lina Schöner

With regard to her work in the development of tourism in Vienna, Lina Schöner had won a place in a good two decades, where she followed doyenne Anna Sacher , who was more than 20 years her senior . Toni Ott was counted in 1927 as the third member of the group of women who are looking for their own kind. The Wiener Sonn- und Mondagszeitung wrote about Lina Schöner : “Frau Schöner switches and rules on Siebensterngasse. She knew how to unite the foreign audience, Viennese society and the world of artists in her rooms every day. An exceptionally capable woman. "

A detailed portrait was published in the Neue Wiener Journal in 1929 : “You can see that Frau Schöner, whose reputation and popularity is much more recent, does not have the worst ancestors. I don't know exactly how she started to make her house, not actually in a really 'noble', but just bourgeois and, however, very Viennese area, a center of the Viennese theater circles and soon also the best Viennese society. The fact is that she seems to have succeeded very quickly: Vienna hardly eats 'at Schöne's' for more than nine or ten years. She herself is an eminently Viennese type, albeit with contemporary modifications. A slim middle-aged woman, young-looking, determined and quick in her demeanor, dark-haired, with a kind of crisp humor. Her racy, finely drawn face with the very keen and all-seeing eyes is definitely that of a lady. Who doesn't know 'the beautiful one' - but who doesn't know her? - would advise a Viennese aristocrat rather than the landlady when entering. She does, however, present herself as a business woman, that is, the woman of the house who takes care of each and every one of her guests. ... a lot of genuine Viennese originality, plus impartiality, wit, a strongly developed but always charming self-confidence ... Of course, the restaurant of the 'Wirtin von Wien' has long since become the most popular meeting place for strangers who know exactly how to get to Vienna and the Viennese Get to know society best: you meet at the Schöne ... "

In 1992, the historian Eva-Marie Csáky draws the following picture of Lina Schöner: “Ambitious and 'principal' through and through, Lina Schöner was not only the driving force in building this empire, she also led it, according to her character and temperament just as prudent as more energetic, sometimes with an 'iron' hand. Despite her rough skin, she always had her heart in the right place and even in the worst of times did not fail to help anyone in need. "

successor

Siebensternbräu

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After Lina Schöner leased her headquarters “Das Schöner” from 1951, but continued to run the café “Casa Piccola” until 1962, Friedrich Sperka followed as the new owner at Siebensterngasse 19.

The Sperka family ran the restaurant in the film house with the name "Schöner" until 1980. That way, the house remained a meeting place for actors and artists. Herbert Hansy, owner of the former "Landgasthaus Hansy" in Gänserndorf, followed in the spring of 1980 . The Sperka and Hansy families kept the name “Schöner” and also used the emblem of the Schöner family.

The guests in the Schöner restaurant in the Filmhaus - especially visitors to the Austria Wochenschau located in the building on the first floor - were, according to a 16-year-old apprentice and the like, during the 80s. a. Eddi Arent , Kurt Weinzierl , Gianna Nannini , José Carreras , Robert Mitchum and many others whom he also served himself.

Around 1992, a new takeover followed with a comprehensive renovation of the interior in today's “Siebensternbräu”, which opened in July 1994 and is one of the oldest breweries in Vienna with the original baroque facade.

Quote

The restaurateur Lina Schöner replied to a survey by the magazine Die Bühne in 1926 on the question "Do you still like it in Vienna?"

“And do I still like it in Vienna! I find this city the most delightful in the world, I would like to earn money in another , but live - only in Vienna! "

Guests and their memories

The Schöne restaurant developed in the 1920s, under the direction of Lina Schöner, into one of the top and most popular addresses for tourism and Viennese society and a meeting place for leading representatives from politics and finance as well as theater and artistic circles. The best known regular guest was the social democratic journalist and member of the National Council Friedrich Austerlitz .

Karl K. Kitchen

The American journalist, publisher and humorist of the New York Evening Post , Karl K. Kitchen, toured half a dozen European countries for two months and published his answers to questions about the country and its people in a number of telegram-style newspapers in a funny way. Vienna performed particularly well: "The most pleasant people - the Viennese ... The most foolish expectation - to find a blue Danube ... The best restaurant - Schöner's in Vienna". In one of his travel reports in 1926 he wrote about the restaurant and Frau Schöner: “One hour after my arrival in Vienna, I was already dining at Schöner, the best restaurant in Vienna and one of the most praised restaurants in the world. The inn has existed since the days of Maria Theresa and every year I make my pilgrimage to Siebensterngasse, after my favorite table in the garden. Nowhere - not even at Au Canetor in Paris - can you find better caviar. The trout are brought to the table alive before they are served and the chicken are simply indescribable. Frau Schöner makes the Salzburger Nockerl - a kind of glorified omelette soufflé - herself and the drinks were of course at the same level. ... No cheap restaurant is nicer, at least in Viennese terms, but every table was occupied ... "

Ludwig Hirschfeld

The Austrian writer Ludwig Hirschfeld wrote a travel guide to Vienna in 1927, which should contain things that are not in the Baedeker . In the chapter “Eat well and stay slim - if you can”, “Der Sacher” and “Die Schöner” are also described, both of which are also mentioned in Baedeker. “The beautiful” did not mean the married couple Andreas and Lina Schöner, but the Frau Schöner: “For example: if you meet friends in the theater and then want to spend the evening together, after various suggestions you usually say:“ Let's go to the Schöner “- That is the name of an unusually efficient and charming innkeeper who runs an old Viennese restaurant in the 7th district, in Siebensterngasse, which has been very popular for about ten years: because it has such nice, small rooms that are cozy can sit together intimately, like in an informal society, since you know almost everyone at least by sight ... "

Peter Eng

The Viennese cartoonist, draftsman and author Peter Eng published an illustrated study in 1928, "Where do you eat in Vienna?" In it he wrote about "The Beautiful" a. a. the following: “There is a Viennese social class that goes almost exclusively to beautiful . Notice that it is called the beautiful and not the beautiful. The Schöne is a Viennese landlady who has become famous since the war. There is also a Herr Schöner. He was a prisoner of war at the time of the war, and when he got home his wife surprised him with an excellent business. It is no longer known today in which way the Schöne became so popular. At least it is. Almost the entire theater, some of the literature and the so-called premiere audience prefer to eat at Schöne, especially in the evening. You sit there in small, pleasant rooms in an older Viennese house, everything new and made to look shiny; the intimacy from table to table is already given by the restaurant and is reinforced by the people who sit there. Everyone knows the other ... Frau Schöner runs her company very personally, she is a resolute woman who would like to do everything herself. It's everywhere, in the kitchen and with guests. In the courtyard of the old house, sitting in a Viennese-colored garden is particularly pleasant on beautiful summer evenings. At the Schöne they cook in a Viennese way, you can find the whole vocabulary of the Viennese menu with all their specialties ... "

Phyllis Bottome

British writer Phyllis Bottome published her memoirs in 1962, in which she recalls both Lina Schöner and Anna Sacher. After her marriage to the British diplomat Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis in 1917, she followed him to Vienna, where he worked as a passport control officer, but was actually head of the British secret service MI6 for Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. From 1920 onwards she wrote about Frau Schöner u. a. (Translation from English): “We had our main meal in the Schöne restaurant, which was run by the ex-lover of an archduke. Frau Schöner was a calm, friendly, and still beautiful woman. She was also a gifted cook and had a touch of subdued but radiant charm around her, completely indestructible and strictly Viennese. She treated each of her guests as if they were the only object of her career. When my husband came late, exhausted from his strenuous new duties, she would lean over and say, “Now I know what the gracious lord should eat! Let me decide for him, and I'll cook it myself! ”And she chose, with her infallible instinct, something he could enjoy and digest, however exhausted he might have been. … Frau Schöner belonged by nature to a blessed type of woman who is more common in Austria than in any other country, and yet too rare. She combined intelligence with grace and kindness. Her beauty was not only on the outside, it came from within, and when she died, something alive and lovable disappeared from the life of Vienna. Anna Sacher, more internationally famous as the founder of Sacher's restaurant, was a very different kind of woman. She is also said to have been the mistress of an archduke; but her contribution to the life of Vienna was much more spectacular than that of Frau Schöner. "

Eduard Heinl

Eduard Heinl (1880–1957), Minister of Commerce and member of the first government of Leopold Figl , was a frequent guest in the Schöner restaurant. In this restoration also took place on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday of the Minister a. D. held a celebration in 1930. Heinl belonged to the legendary “Tuesday Society” until his arrest by GESTAPO shortly before 1945. In 1948, in one of his books, he described the atmosphere at Ms. Beautiful when a memory came back to him after his release on April 9, 1945 on the way down the street then known as the street of the July fighters . On the way through Siebensterngasse, Heinl saw the time in which the renowned Gasthaus Schöner was the focus of a large community of political functionaries persecuted by the National Socialists. So you could find yourself inconspicuously at Frau Schöner’s inn, where you could meet friends and like-minded people and learn something about the fate of others. Eduard Heinl writes in his book: “I stopped by and was not disappointed .... The old atmosphere of resistance struck the visitor ... they were quickly informed about the exact state of the political and military situation ... amply strengthened Body and soul, I went to my apartment ... "(quoted from Csáky)

literature

• Josef Schöner : Vienna Diary 1944/1945. Edited by Eva-Marie Csaky. Böhlau, Wien et al. 1992, ISBN 3-205-05531-4 (contains a life picture of the Schöner family on pp. 19-21, see also Google Books )
• Eduard Heinl : Over half a century - time and economy. Wilhelm Braumüller, Universität Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Vienna IX, 1948

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Eva-Marie Csáky: Zur Familie Schöner, in: Eva-Marie Csáky, Franz Matscher, Gerald Stourzh (eds.): Josef Schöner - Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945, pp. 19-21 , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna ( Google Books digitized version)
2. ↑ XV. Innkeepers' charity ball, January 21, 1903, in: Deutsches Volksblatt, Vienna, January 28, 1903, p. 10
3. ↑ Fasching 1903. Der Gastwirteball, in: Neues Wiener Tagblatt, January 28, 1903, p. 19
4. ↑ Der Hotelierball, in: Neue Freie Presse, February 22, 1903, p. 10
5. ^ Fasching 1903: Hotelierball, in: Neues Wiener Tagblatt, February 25, 1903, p. 8
6. ↑ The Ball of the Innkeepers' Sons, in: Illustrated Wiener Extrablatt, February 23, p. 2
7. ^ Andreas Carl Schöner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
8. ↑ Josef Schöner, in: The international who's who, 1974–1975, Europa Publications Limited, p. 1550 ( ISBN 978-0-900362-72-9 )
9. ^ ^{A b c} Franz Matscher: Josef Schöner, 1904–1978. Life picture of an Austrian diplomat, in: Eva-Marie Csáky, Franz Matscher, Gerald Stourzh (eds.): Josef Schöner - Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945, pp. 9-14 , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna (Google Books digitized version)
10. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Eng: Where to eat in Vienna - The Viennese studying the menu, in: Die Bühne, Heft 193, 1928, pp. 18, 20-21, 38 (accessed April 30, 2018)
11. ↑ Ernst Bruckmüller: The Austrian bourgeoisie between monarchy and republic, in: Zeit Geschichte Volume 20, Geyer Edition, 1993, p. 76 (digitized version of the ÖNB) (accessed on May 2, 2018) ( Google digitized snippet )
12. ↑ Von Savarin: The menu of the bad life, in: Die Bühne, Heft 55, 1925, p. 19f.
13. ^ Sale of a large Viennese coffee house, in: Neues Wiener Journal, May 28, 1918, p. 6
14. ↑ The old Obertimpfler died. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , February 26, 1927, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
15. ↑ The death of a popular Viennese cafetier, in: Neue Freie Presse, February 25, 1927, p. 10
16. ↑ Lisa Fischer: Lina Loos, or when the muse kisses itself - A biography , Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna, 1994, ISBN 3-205-98214-2
17. ↑ Schöners Cafe casa piccola, in: Wiener Sonn- und Mondagszeitung, October 8, 1928, p. 5
18. ^ Café Carlton in the Vienna History Wiki. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
19. ↑ Article  in:  Neues Wiener Journal , September 28, 1928, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
20. ↑ Restaurant in Cafe Carlton. In:  Neue Freie Presse , September 28, 1928, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
21. ^ Oesterreichische Wehrzeitung: The Cafe Fenstergucker, a dear piece of old Vienna (February 19, 1932, p. 5f.)
22. ^ Wiener Magazin, December 1932, p. 21
23. ↑ Illustrated Kronenzeitung: See you again with the “window gazer”! (December 3, 1931, p. 5)
24. ↑ Imminent reopening of the “Fenstergucker” café, in: Neues Wiener Journal, December 3, 1931, p. 12
25. ^ Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung: Company minutes: Hotel Krantz Aktiengesellschaft (October 19, 1928, p. 16)
26. ↑ Historical photos of the Schöner restaurant, in: Heinz Jankowsky: Neubau, Vienna's 7th district , Sutton Verlag, Erfurt, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89702-472-4 , p. 24
27. ^ Caroline Leopoldine Schöner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
28. ^ Andreas Carl Schöner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
29. ↑ The third in the league. Ms. Toni Ott , in: Wiener Sonn- und Monday-Zeitung (April 11, 1927, p. 8)
30. ↑ At the beautiful. In the restaurant of Viennese artists and society , in: Neues Wiener Journal (December 25, 1929, p. 13f.)
31. ^ Eva-Marie Csáky: To the Schöner family, in: Eva-Marie Csáky, Franz Matscher, Gerald Stourzh (eds.): Josef Schöner - Wiener Tagebuch 1944/1945, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna
32. ↑ https://www.noen.at/gaenserndorf/gaenserndorf-gasthaus-hansy-estand-vor-verkauf-gaenserndorf-gasthaus-hansy-verkauf-141409788
33. ↑ https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Austria_Wochenschau
34. ↑ Quoted from the contemporary witness, Michael Leopold, former apprentice at Schöne 1980–1984.
35. ↑ The Stage - Rundfrage, No. 84, 1926, p. 28
36. ^ Reichspost: How do you like Europe (April 6, 1927, p. 4)
37. ^ Salzburger Chronik für Stadt und Land: A New Yorker in Europe (January 19, 1927, p. 7)
38. ↑ How do you like Europe ? In:  Tages-Post , April 17, 1927, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
39. ↑ KK Kitchen and Austerlitz agree - "The best restaurant in the world: The Schöne Restaurant". In:  Freedom! , August 5, 1927, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
40. ↑ A Yankee on the move. (A Janke Abroad.). In:  Badener Zeitung , September 15, 1926, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
41. ^ Ludwig Hirschfeld: Das Buch von Wien, R. Piper & Company, 1927, pp. 18f. (Google Books snippets)
42. ↑ Phyllis Bottome: The goal.Autobiographical, 1962, New York, Vanguard Press, S.67f. (accessed on April 28, 2018)
43. ↑ Honor for retired Minister Heinl, in Reichspost April 8, 1930, p. 6