Femina (show stage)

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Femina was a revue stage in Vienna .

In 1913 the Art Nouveau cabaret at Johannesgasse 1 was sold. In 1910 the Fledermaus cabaret was closed there under Egon Friedell . Then the Femina revue stage was founded there.

Locality

The architecture of the restaurant was based on Josef Hoffmann . The establishment of the location was created by the three visual artists Carl Leopold Hollitzer , Emil Orlik and Gustav Klimt , coordinated by Adolf Loos . The basement restaurant and the house at Johannesgasse 1 were destroyed in 1945 during the last bomb attack on Vienna.

Artistic Director

After the First World War, the directors Arthur Schwarz and Emil Schwarz ran the stage. Your in-house author was Karl Farkas . In the 1920s, Wilhelm Gyimes led the stage, first as a dance hall, then expanded with a girl troupe of six girls, the Femina Girls, with the girls performing during the dance breaks, as well as simple actors who performed skits.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Wiener: Zeitensjünge. P. 84.
  2. ^ Hugo Wiener : Zeitensjünge. P. 83.
  3. ^ Hugo Wiener: Zeitensjünge. P. 84 f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 19 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17 ″  E