Hotel Waldhaus (Sils)

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Hotel Waldhaus

The Hotel Waldhaus is a historic hotel in Sils-Maria in the Upper Engadin in Switzerland . It is one of the few five-star hotels in Switzerland that has been owned by the same family since it opened.

history

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer (1918–1937)

The Hotel Waldhaus in Sils-Maria was built in 1908 on behalf of the hotelier Josef Giger-Nigg as a design by the young architect Karl Koller , who at the time had just established himself as a hotel architect in the Engadine . Both in its external appearance and in the furnishings, the Waldhaus shows the further development from the exuberant design language of the Belle Époque to the simpler expression at the beginning of the 20th century.

The historic forest house has largely been preserved in its original state both inside and out, including the furniture. The “ Welte Mignon piano” is still in the hotel's music salon today , a mechanical piano that was acquired in 1910 from M. Welte & Sons in Freiburg im Breisgau for 2100 Reichsmarks and is played with piano rolls . The Hotel Waldhaus houses paintings by the painter Clara Porges , as well as works by Gottardo Segantini and the photographer Albert Steiner .

The guests included Theodor W. Adorno , Thomas Bernhard , Joseph Beuys , Marion Countess Dönhoff , Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Thomas Mann , Hermann Hesse , Fritz Stern and Luchino Visconti , but also Gerhard Richter . Even Emil Rathenau , Samuel Fischer (publisher) , Max Reinhardt , Albert Einstein , Otto Klemperer and Max Liebermann , all with Jewish family background, bored as regulars at Forest Hotel.

Only 200 meters behind the hotel in the forest is the former "Villa Spitzer" ("Villa Laret"), where the young Anne Frank spent a carefree summer vacation with her wealthy Parisian aunt Olga Spitzer in 1935 and 1936. A privately initiated monument commemorates the stays there today.

In 1996, parts of Life is a Game , the fiftieth film by Claude Chabrol , with Isabelle Huppert , Michel Serrault and François Cluzet were shot here.

In 2008, the Swiss theater director Christoph Marthaler staged the specially written play Das Theater mit dem Waldhaus in the Hotel Waldhaus. The production was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2009, but Marthaler declined because the play could not be transferred to another location. Instead, a film documentary was shown in Berlin.

Advertisement published in the Journal de Genève on May 28, 1908.

Varia

On May 30, 2015, MDR Figaro broadcast an almost one-hour feature by Katrin Schumacher with the title Musical Silence - About a Philosopher, a Hotel and Music at the End of the World, which also featured the Hotel Waldhaus.

Fiction

literature

  • Roland Flückiger-Seiler: Hotel Waldhaus Sils-Maria. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 779/780, Series 78). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2005, ISBN 978-3-85782-779-2 .

Web links

Commons : Hotel Waldhaus (Sils Maria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roland Flückiger-Seiler: Hotel Waldhaus Sils-Maria. Swiss Art Guide GSK, ISBN 3-85782-779-3 , p. 58
  2. ^ Roland Flückiger-Seiler: Hotel Waldhaus Sils-Maria. . Swiss Art Guide GSK, ISBN 3-85782-779-3 , p. 20
  3. ↑ Sergio Michels: Clara Porges - The painter of light. Volume 1, Michels Design Art Editions, Comano 2013.
  4. ↑ Sergio Michels: Clara Porges - The painter of light. Volume 2, Michels Design Art Editions, Comano 2015.
  5. ^ Fritz Stern: Five Germany and one life. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-34561-3 , pp. 334, 358
  6. ^ Roland Flückiger-Seiler: Hotel Waldhaus Sils-Maria. Swiss Art Guide GSK, ISBN 3-85782-779-3 , p. 12.
  7. ^ A b Norman Ohler: The abysses of Sils-Maria . In: The time . No. 52 , 2014, p. 19 ( zeit.de ).
  8. ^ AT Schaefer: The forest house. Verlag B. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach, ISBN 3-87448-192-1 , p. 64.
  9. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: The theater with the forest house
  10. ^ Journal de Genève , May 28, 1908, letempsarchives.ch .
  11. ↑ Information about the program - with online listening option (podcast)
  12. ↑ Manuscript for the broadcast (PDF)

Coordinates: 46 ° 25 '42 "  N , 9 ° 45' 40.5"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred and six  /  144529