Hannes Hoffmann

Johannes "Hannes" Hoffmann (born April 26, 1918 in Vienna ; † August 15, 1988 there ) was an Austrian operetta singer and owner of the artists' meeting " Gutruf ".

Life

Origin and beginning

Johannes Hoffmann was born in Vienna-Leopoldstadt in 1918 and grew up in Vienna-Kaisermühlen, attended the secondary school of the school brothers De La Salle in Vienna-Strebersdorf, where he graduated. During the Second World War he played various roles in operettas and theaters from 1938 to 1945. After 1945 he played smaller roles in various theaters in Vienna and Salzburg. In 1947 Johannes Hoffmann acquired the delicatessen store "English House L. Gutruf & Co" in Vienna from Mrs. Leopoldine Gutruf.

Good reputation

Johannes Hoffmann was the owner of the delicatessen store "English House L. Gutruf & Co" from 1947 to 1966. The restaurant "Gutruf" in Milchgasse in Vienna became a regular hangout for many artists and prominent guests. The “Gutruf” was equipped with a small back room as the living room of the intellect. Usually a colorful mixture of personalities such as actors, writers, painters, journalists, sculptors, politicians, filmmakers, draftsmen, television people, producers, directors and bon vivants met there. "The earlier, old world was partly planned and created in the back rooms," said Squidward Podgorski . "In the back room you only sit with your closest friends, with the closest like-minded people, and everything that was not allowed to happen, seen, spoken or done in the front rooms, happened in the back rooms." At the time, Hannes Hoffmann was also known as “Der Gutruf” because the older generation of Gutrufians identified the restaurant with him.

Mr. Karl

History was made in the golden age of Gutruf. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the "Gutruf" was something like the epicenter of Vienna's cultural, economic and political avant-garde, said Georg Biron . Regular guest Helmut Qualtinger was always the focus, said Hannes Hoffmann alias "Der Gutruf". The time-critical one-person piece Der Herr Karl by Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger was also created during this period . In “Gutruf”, Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger were inspired by Hannes Hoffmann's stories. “With his servile-submissive manner, Hannes Hoffmann formed an inexhaustible source for Helmut Qualtinger's repertoire. This also under the aspect that the spiral staircase from the bar to the basement and the manner of Hannes Hoffmann von Qualtinger were implemented seamlessly in Mr. Karl, ”wrote Georg Biron.

Private

Hannes Hoffmann's first marriage was Charlotte von Ripka, who brought a daughter, Maximiliane, into the marriage. Since 1970 Hannes Hoffmann was married to Brigitte (* 1940) for the second time, who brought her son Wolfgang (* 1959) into the marriage. This was adopted by Hannes Hoffmann. Professionally, he started a second successful career in the cotton industry in the import & export trade of his wife Brigitte Hoffmann. Most recently he lived with his wife and son in a spacious apartment in Vienna-Währing. Hannes Hoffmann died in 1988 at the age of 70 in the same.

literature

• Peter Allmayer-Beck, Thaddäus Podgorski, Herbert Völker: The Gutruf - A back room turns 100 . Bibliophile Edition, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-9502052-6-8 .
• Georg Biron: Quasi Mr. Karl incl. Audio CD Does Mr. Karl really exist? 1st edition. 2011, ISBN 978-3-99100-046-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Georg Biron: Quasi Mr. Karl . 1st edition. 2011, p. 173.
2. ↑ Kehlmann, Biron, Hubmann, Pflaum: Der Qualtinger . Vienna 1987, p. 180.
3. ↑ Peter Allmayer-Beck, Thaddäus Podgorski, Herbert Völker: Das Gutruf . Vienna 2006, p. 148.
4. ↑ Georg Biron: Quasi Mr. Karl . 1st edition. 2011, p. 174.