Garçonnière

One bedroom apartment in Minneapolis (apartment also includes kitchen, bathroom, and hallway)

A Garçonnière (derived from the French garçon , "bachelor") is a one-room apartment . The term is mostly used in Austria .

A Garçonnière usually has a room and a small anteroom with a kitchen and sanitary facilities, also referred to as "room / kitchen" in advertisements. Sometimes a garçonnière in a classic barracks has a toilet in the corridor that can be shared with other parties. Occasionally, however, a rather small but fully equipped apartment is called a garçonnière. The quality or price class of an apartment cannot be judged solely on the basis of the name.

The 1960 film The Apartment is called La Garçonnière in French , as is a novel by Hélène Grémillon .

Web links

Wiktionary: Garçonnière  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Grebe, Konrad Duden: Der Große Duden, Volume 10. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1970, p. 266 ( online at Google Books ).
2. ↑ Rudolf Muhr, Richard Schrodt, Peter Wiesinger (Ed.): Austrian German . Linguistic, social-psychological and language-political aspects of a national variant of German. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1995, p. 205 f .