the straw

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der strohhalm , mostly just called straw , was an " artist club bar " from 1949 until it was closed in 1969 and was most recently a bar in the city center of Braunschweig at the corner of Steinweg 37 and Ritterbrunnen 1.

history

First years

At the end of the 1940s, a sociable association similar to the Serapion brothers E. TA Hoffmann was brought into being in a private apartment in Braunschweig under the name “Café Bohème”. The founding members included the painter and graphic artist Gerd Burtchen , the painter Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke , the photographer Heinrich Heidersberger and the writer Peter Lufft . The move to Marienstraße 52, located in the eastern ring area , followed in 1949. From this point on, the meeting point was called “the straw”, which was invented by the actor Alfred Hansen . During the time in Marienstraße, the bar was run by Mally Wilke , the widow of the cartoonist Rudolf Wilke . Right from the start, the bar was a meeting place for actors, painters, journalists and writers from Braunschweig or those who were in the city or were guests there. There were numerous signed autograph cards on the walls of the bar and photos with dedications by the famous visitors were in the guest books .

The owner of the artist's bar was from 1949 to 1969 the Galician Jew Zenobjucz Messing (born 1898/99, died 1980) for short just called “Ziggy” or “Siggi” and his wife Gertrud “Puppa”, née. Lejsky. Brass seems to have been a dazzling and dodgy personality: from 1931 until the “ National Socialists seized power ” in 1933 he was the manager of the Berlin artists' pub “Groschenkeller”, and he was also active in Litzmannstadt , Warsaw and Lübeck . He had a reputation as a petty criminal , card-waver and cardsharp . He often demonstrated his " card tricks ", especially the caraway leaves . When Ullstein publishing house he brought his bargain out test Game Arts out later as a book. In the final phase of the Weimar Republic brass to as V-man for the Berlin criminal police, during the Second World War as a kind of Jewish collaborator of the Nazis have been active.

Shortly after the end of the war, the couple came to Braunschweig. In 1950 the local criminal police finally investigated the stateless person under file number 1 Js 278/50 . He was accused of " crimes against humanity ", as brass is said to have worked with the Gestapo and plundered and murdered other Jews. After the attack on Poland , Messing is said to have urged Jews in Łódź to move to the Warsaw ghetto , as living conditions there were better. According to the contradicting statements of some witnesses in 1950, Messing is said to have organized the transport of the Jews to Warsaw in exchange for money. The case was so well known in post-war Germany that in August 1950 it gave Messing a cover story for the news magazine “ Der Spiegel ”. The proceedings were later discontinued without result.

Wedding and decline

In 1955, “der strohhalm” moved into the premises at Steinweg 37 / Ritterbrunnen 1. At the new location, the pub finally developed into the nationally known meeting place for artists and celebrities in the city. In addition to numerous well-known Braunschweig artists such as Ingeborg Riehl , Norbert Schultze , Peter Lufft and Heinrich Heidersberger, guests were also guests in the city, such as the actors Hansjörg Felmy and Gustav Knuth , who grew up in Braunschweig , but also film greats from the 1950s and 1960s such as Hans Albers , Rudolf Forster , Cornelia Froboess , Hanns Lothar or Hildegard Knef , Claus Peymann , Anneliese Rothenberger , Bubi Scholz , Vera Chechowa , Vico Torriani , Karl-Heinz Vosgerau , Paula Wessely , but also Elias Canetti and others.

In the course of the 1960s, "the straw" gradually lost its attractiveness, so that the brass couple withdrew into private life in 1969 and a new tenant reopened the restaurant under the old name, but for a different, younger audience. From this point on, mainly the students of the four inner-city high schools Gaußschule , Kleine Burg , Martino-Katharineum and Wilhelm-Gymnasium met there . In the 1980s, “the straw” finally closed. In 2008, the entire row of houses from the early 1950s was finally torn down and replaced by a new bank branch.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke : Braunschweig. A guide through the old and new Braunschweig. Albert Limbach Verlag , Braunschweig 1954, p. 108.
  2. ^ Braunschweig address book 1969/70. 138th edition, printed and published by Joh. Heinrich Meyer, Braunschweig 1969, p. 307.
  3. ↑ a b c Peter Lufft: The straw. In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. P. 127.
  4. ↑ Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke: Braunschweig. A guide through the old and new Braunschweig. P. 89.
  5. ^ Andreas Döring: Wirth. Another two quarters of the room. Braunschweig restaurants and Braunschweig beer back then. P. 94.
  6. ↑ a b c d Andreas Döring: Wirth. Another two quarters of the room. Braunschweig restaurants and Braunschweig beer back then. P. 95.
  7. ↑ a b c Brass is not a shark. In: Der Spiegel. P. 10.
  8. ↑ Brass is not a shark. In: Der Spiegel. P. 11.
  9. ↑ Brass is not a shark. In: Der Spiegel. P. 15.
  10. ↑ Martin Doerry , Hauke ​​Janssen (ed.): The SPIEGEL affair: A scandal and its consequences. DVA, ISBN 978-3-421-04604-8 .
  11. ^ Helmut Dillenburger: Small stroll through big cities. A guide through 67 German cities. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1958, p. 54.
  12. ↑ With the Riehl in the "straw". In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. 2007.
  13. ↑ charmer out of service. Felmy turns 75 today - career start in Braunschweig. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. dated January 31, 2006.
  14. ↑ a b c d From 11 p.m. there was onion soup. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. dated June 2, 2009.
  15. ↑ When Canetti Braunschweig aflame. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. dated July 24, 2005.
  16. ^ Andreas Döring: Wirth. Another two quarters of the room. Braunschweig restaurants and Braunschweig beer back then. P. 96.
  17. ↑ When the “Capriccio” electrified the youth. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of February 17, 2007.
  18. ^ Business end after 37 years. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. dated October 11, 2008.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 54.3 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 41"  E