Kaiser cellar

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Greeting card with a drawing of the “Schifferstube” in the Kaiserkeller;
Postcard No. 3 , signed Hugo Ulbrich ; Print by Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co. , around 1905

The Kaiser-Keller in Berlin , also known as the Kaiserkeller , was a company founded at the end of the 19th century and at the time the largest wine restaurant in the world.

history

The Kaiser-Keller was opened in Berlin in the late early days of the German Empire in 1899 in what was then the commercial building at Friedrichstrasse 176–179 . Shortly after opening the company, the company ran into financial difficulties, which prompted the wine merchant and secret councilor Julius Wegeler to start negotiations with the establishment's management. As a result, the company was converted into a stock corporation as Kaiser-Keller AG , in which the Deinhard sparkling wine and winery took a share with 635,000 marks . In addition, the Kaiser-Keller was expanded to include the Kaiser-Café and the Kaiser-Hotel.

For the commercial artist Leon Lico Amar , who worked in Berlin from 1910 , the director of the Kaiser-Keller was one of the first clients: A whole series of advertisements by Amar for the facility were aimed at the "elegant audience" and should be the catchphrase, especially among upper class theater-goers Establish “After the theater to the Kaiserkeller”. Some of the advertisements changed daily depending on the program of various Berlin theaters; The reference to Parsifal in particular probably heated individual musical and pious minds, but was by no means detrimental to the reputation of the advertising company.

After the First World War and during the German hyperinflation at the beginning of the Weimar Republic , the company name , which was reminiscent of the German emperor and the authoritarian state , was given up in 1921.

literature

  • Maximilian Rapsilber : The Kaiser-Keller. Berlin W. Friedrichstrasse 178 , Berlin: Kaiser-Keller, [o. J., circa 1910]

Web links

Commons : Kaiser-Keller (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Prössler : Secret Commerce Councilor Julius Wegeler. President of the German Viticulture Association 1893 - 1905 (= writings on wine history , special issue, vol. 2 in the series Biographies of the Presidents of the German Viticulture Association / the German Viticulture Association ), Wiesbaden: Society for the history of wines, 1987, p. 25 u.ö .; Preview over google books
  2. ^ A b Fritz Hasemann : Amar , in: The poster. Journal of the Verein der Posterfreunde eV , Volume 6, Issue 3, May 1915, pp. 109–118; Digitized
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ top v .: 158 advertising stamps from Leon Lico Amar on the jmberlin.de page [ undated ], last accessed on January 3, 2019


Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 50.4 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 20.5 ″  E