Heinz Werner Schimanko

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Heinz Werner Schimanko (born February 15, 1944 in Vienna ; † November 22, 2005 there ) was a dazzling figure in Vienna's nightlife. The owner of numerous hotels and bars was considered by many to be the uncrowned night club of Vienna.

Life

Schimanko was born in the ambulance in the middle of the hail of bombs in Vienna and came from a poor background. After the war and the years in devastated Vienna, his goal was to achieve prosperity and reputation.

After attending secondary school, he went to the Austrian Armed Forces as a professional soldier , trained as a ranger at the hunting command and then worked as a trainer.

He began his career as an entrepreneur in 1971. With the support of his first wife, a bookseller who graduated from a business school, he got into the restaurant business . On credit, he bought a restaurant in Schwechat for 500,000 schillings (approx. 36,500 euros) . After 14 months he was free of debt and could start investing further. 1974 bought Schimanko the famous Viennese nightclub Moulin Rouge in the Walfischgasse and 1975 also in Vienna Schickeria popular -Kreisen Eden Bar in the inner city , which he first visited as a 19-year-old soldier and he fulfilled with their purchase a childhood dream:

“It was still when I was in the armed forces. My friend and I parked an old, rickety VW around the corner from the Eden Bar. An elitist shed, in which the high society had a rendezvous, a bar that you only found after careful examination through the strict upper entrance. So we scraped together all of our money to order a bottle of wine for us and our girls. The waiter even looked suspiciously to see which car we had come with in order to be able to guess our creditworthiness! Swam over it! Back then I swore to myself: this bar will one day be mine! A bar in which it is a privilege to be a guest! "

- Heinz Werner Schimanko : Quoted from Freizeit-Journal, issue 03/3.

A few years after buying the Eden , he acquired the Hotel Orient, which is considered an hourly hotel . Schimanko has also been involved successfully in the Viennese red light business since the 1970s. He also ran the Café whale, the Club 24, the lock bar, the Eve-Bar, and the Dolce Vita .

As he came to the opinion in the mid-1990s that red-light bars could no longer be run seriously due to the changed external circumstances in Vienna, he sold them and concentrated on the Eden Bar and the hotel business (Hotel Opernring; Hotel Domizil).

Various Heurigen properties have been assigned to him . Schimanko's winery in Vienna's Kahlenbergerdorf belonged to him securely . The former restaurant Zur Eisernen Hand at the foot of the Kahlenberg also passed into his possession, with the condition that the restaurant be reopened within a short time. Until shortly before his death, Schimanko was still forging plans in his Hotel Opernring to open a 24-hour restaurant called Opera, which, according to his ideas, should become "a contemporary farmer for opera-goers".

As the operator of trendy bars, Schimanko was part of the Wiener Seitenblicke Society. Whom "the Schimanko" had personally welcomed in "the Eden" was one of the "upper ten thousand". About his Eden bar display, he said: “At first, the people who were inside didn't want to hang outside, but now the guests intervene with the staff and photographers so that their likeness adorns the display.” He has been successful by his own admission “At the age of 13 without vacation and 18 hours of work a day”. His trademarks were his "polished bald head", the distinctive mustache, his stocky build, which he had trained four to five times a week since his teenage days, as well as his Rolls-Royce with the mark Eden 1. He was very well read with an extensive private library and was a regular visitor to the opera: "I have loved going to the Vienna State Opera since I was 16 - for years I literally lived in the standing room , I saw Wagner's Parsifal at least 40 times!"

He appeared in guest roles in various television series such as Kottan and Ein Schloss am Wörthersee .

The Commercial Councilor Schimanko sponsored weight training and repeatedly supported charity projects. At the request of the ÖVP Döbling in the district representative meeting in July 2007, a connecting route leading to Eisernenhandgasse in the 19th district of Vienna was named after him as Heinz-Werner-Schimanko-Weg .

Private

Schimanko had three children from his first marriage to a bookseller. The daughter Michaela Schimanko-Stiedl, who - like her father - was involved in the catering trade and whom he supported in running the Reiss-Bar she acquired , continues to run his company. His two sons became lawyers and business administrators. After the death of his first wife, he married again and from this second marriage had a son and a daughter. He had his residence in the property of the former inn Zur eisernen Hand in Vienna-Döbling.

Heinz Werner Schimanko died of a heart attack in Vienna- Alsergrund and was buried in the Kahlenbergerdorfer Friedhof in Vienna.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note: It is not known whether Schimanko graduated from secondary school with a high school diploma .
  2. ↑ Clemens Hellsberg was also a wild dog. The Army Hunting Command - special troops for high-risk operations. In: Die Presse , print edition of May 26, 2007. Retrieved on February 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d Obituary of a user “Tommy” in sexworker.at, November 23, 2005. Accessed on February 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Schimanko-Weg": A Döblinger Gasse for the "Ranger" article in the daily newspaper "Der Standard" from April 15, 2008.
  5. ↑ Heinz Werner Schimanko - In memory. Website Schimanko's Winerzhaus. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  6. ↑ See Wolfgang Schulz: Spott- und Schmähnamen (in) Döbling> Eiserne Hand. In: zur-wurst.at. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  7. ^ Norbert Rast: Excursion destinations on the outskirts of the city: Gasthaus In: People write history, July 2009. Retrieved on February 24, 2012.
  8. ↑ Christina Höfferer: The Eden Bar. Emmy Stein, bar owner. In: oe1 . ORF .at, August 10, 2005. Accessed February 24, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Schimanko-Weg": A Döblinger Gasse for the "Ranger" article in the daily newspaper "Der Standard" from April 15, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Schimanko, Heinz Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schimanko, Heinz W .; Schimanko, Heinz; Schimanko, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, restaurateur, hotelier and Viennese nightclub king
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 2005
Place of death Vienna