Josefine Hawelka

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Café Hawelka

Josefa Hawelka (called Josefine; born October 12, 1913 in Kremsmünster ; † March 22, 2005 in Vienna ) was an Austrian coffee house legend. Together with her husband Leopold Hawelka, she was the founder and operator of Café Hawelka .

biography

Josefa Danzberger was born in Upper Austria as the daughter of a butcher . After elementary school she worked with her aunt in the inn. In 1929, at the age of 16, she went to Vienna and worked as a cashier in the Dreierl restaurant on Babenbergerstrasse. In 1933 she met her future husband Leopold Hawelka there ; the two married in 1936. Just one day after their wedding, the Hawelkas opened Kaffee Alt Wien on Bäckerstraße in the First District . At first, the couple lived in the back room of the café until they moved into an apartment on Köllnerhofgasse six months later. When the contract for Kaffee Alt Wien expired three years later and the lease was increased significantly, the Hawelkas were forced to look for another place and soon after opened Café Hawelka in the same district .

Daughter Herta was born in July 1939, and son Günter a year later. Since Leopold was drafted as a soldier, the café was closed in 1940 and only reopened in 1945 after the end of the war. For more than 60 years, the Hawelkas ran their café together, Leopold during the day and Josefine on the late shift. Josefine Hawelka was particularly popular for her Buchteln , which she prepared herself for her guests and served fresh from 10 p.m.

Tomb in the Heiligenstadt cemetery

Josefine Hawelka died on March 22nd, 2005 - a Tuesday, which has always been her only day off of the week. After her death, Hawelka was buried in the Heiligenstadt cemetery (Section A, Gr. M, No. 27). In 2012 the Josefine-Hawelka-Weg was named in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) , which leads from Groß-Enzersdorfer Straße to Seestadt Aspern .

literature

  • Franz Hubmann: Café Hawelka - A Viennese Myth ; Vienna, Munich: Christian Brandstätter, 2001; ISBN 3-85498-111-2
  • Sonja Moser: The Hawelka ; ed. from the Hawelka family; Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt: Pichler, 2009; ISBN 978-3-85431-500-1
  • Isabella Lechner: Viennese women who read are dangerous ; Munich: Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag, 2012; ISBN 978-3-938045-72-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baptisms - duplicates 1913 - 106/1913 | Kremsmuenster | Linz, rk. Diocese (Upper Austria) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved July 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hawelka, Josefine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hawelka, Josefa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian restaurateur, founder and operator of Café Hawelka
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kremsmünster
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2005
Place of death Vienna