Families can make coffee here
Families can make coffee here is a catchphrase that originated in the Berlin milieu at the beginning of the 19th century.
In the former Berlin suburb of Treptow there had been a well-known inn called “Spreebudike” since the 18th century, which attracted many Berlin day trippers. From 1779, King Friedrich II. Settled Saxon colonists in Treptow as part of the inland colonization . They also began to entertain the excursionists around 1800, but refused to pay the beverage concessions. When they were then banned from serving, a colonist hit on the idea of only selling dishes and hot water. The guests brought the coffee powder and food themselves. The business idea and the slogan "Families can make coffee here" then spread throughout Berlin.
Bars with this service and the corresponding advertising signs existed around Berlin throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The slogan was later expanded and varied, for example to: "The old custom is not broken, families can make coffee here". It was also used to denote the working class and petty bourgeoisie as a whole. As such, it served as the title of two paintings: Theodor Hosemann created an oil painting in 1861 with the title Here families can make coffee (garden restaurant in the green) . A picture of the same name by Hans Baluschek , which can be assigned to socially critical realism , was created in 1895.
Kurt Tucholsky used the winged word to characterize the SPD :
“It is a misfortune that the SPD is called the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Had it been called the Reformist Party or the Lesser Evil Party since August 1914, or Families can make coffee here or something like that - the new name would have opened the eyes of many workers and they would have gone where they belong: to a workers' party. But as it is, the shop does its bad business under a formerly good name. "
literature
- Regina Richter, Frauke Rother, Anke Scharnhorst: families can make coffee here. Treptow in the course of history. be.bra Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3930863143 .
Web links
- www.stadtnavigator-berlin.de
- Painting by Theodor Hosemann ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )