Kathi Kobus

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Kathi Kobus (born October 7, 1854 in Niklasreuth ; † August 7, 1929 in Munich ) was a Munich restaurateur.

Postcard from Kathi Kobus (1907) to the Munich writer Julius Beck
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Advertising stamp for Simplicissimus around 1912

Life

Katharina Kobus was the daughter of the Traunstein horse dealer, coachman and innkeeper Joseph Kobus and his wife Theresia, née. Bertl. Due to an illegitimate pregnancy, she was expelled from the house by her father and disinherited, so that the seventeen-year-old moved to Munich and, later supported by her widowed mother, made her way as a waitress and painter model. In the 1990s she became a cashier in the “Dichtelei” in Adalbertstrasse , where a Brettlbühne had developed. Kathi already became an institution among the guests there. She finally managed to become self-employed and to open the “Simplicissimus” at Türkenstrasse 57 , where numerous artists and writers frequented and performed at the beginning of the 20th century, including Joachim Ringelnatz . She founded the “Wine Restaurant” in 1902, previously the “Kronprinz Rudolf” café had been operated in the premises. She is said to have moved from Adalbertstrasse to Türkenstrasse on Walpurgis Night in 1903 with the help of her customers.

Kobus, who was not allowed to run her new eatery under the name “Neue Dichtelei”, took over both the name and the motif of the grim bulldog , which has graced the Simplicissimus magazine since the fourth year , for her eatery without first contacting Albert Verlag Long to have contacted about the rights. Allegedly she was able to beg Albert Langen 's consent to use it by reproaching him with the fact that she had already ordered all the signs when Langen asserted his rights.

She collected pictures that her painting and drawing customers created and used them to decorate the restaurant; Writers, singers and dancers sometimes performed regularly in the artists' pub. Kathi Kobus usually paid no or only a very low fee; the artists often received food and drink for their performances. Ringelnatz wrote about his brother: “[…] the widespread rumor, which she herself skilfully nurtured, that she was a patron and supported poor artists, did not correspond to reality. Kathi Kobus never gave anything to anyone without asking for something in return or without deriving a commercial benefit from it. And she used the forces that stood in her service to the utmost. "

Ringelnatz, Julius Beck , whose dialect poems she recited herself, Ludwig Scharf and Erich Mühsam were among the “house poets” . He later wrote about the heyday of the bar : “Until Wedekind closed a tighter circle around himself in the Torggelstube, with higher intellectual demands and carefully maintained exclusivity, and until rival bars like the“ Bunte Vogel ”and“ Boheme ”became one Part of the artistic community was withdrawn from the not exaggeratedly varied noise, crowds and smells of the most genuine Munich artist's bar, in the »Simplicissimus« of the Kathi Kobus the spirituality of Munich fluctuated in all its ramifications and cliques, and on some evenings you could see the most heterogeneous elements of literature and art see represented at the various tables ”.

Kathi Kobus later opened the “Kathis Ruh” excursion restaurant in Wolfratshausen in a villa that she had bought in 1912 for 25,000 marks, and temporarily gave up the “Simpl”. However, she later took it over again and continued to run it after the First World War until her death.

According to Erich Mühsam's memoirs, Kathi Kobus got engaged to Ludwig Scharf . The couple never entered into a marriage; Instead of Kathi Kobus, Scharf married a Hungarian countess.

In July 1929 she was admitted to the Schwabing hospital with suspected paratyphoid fever. On August 7, she returned to her apartment at Türkenstrasse 13 at her own request, where she died that same night. According to other reports, she either died after a Mardi Gras party - which would be amazing considering the date of death - or after another night of partying of cardiac arrest.

She is buried in Munich's north cemetery (Grabfeld 79, row 4, grave number 7). Her tomb bears the inscription Fräulein Kathi Kobus, founder of the Simplicissimus artists' pub, rests here . Kathi-Kobus-Strasse in Munich bears her name.

In Karl Ritter's feature film Bal paré (1940) Kobus is played by Grete Russ .

literature

  • Joachim Ringelnatz: artist bar and Kathi Kobus . Faber & Faber, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86730-031-5
  • Walter Staller: All over the world there are ... Joseph Kobus and his daughter Kathi . In: Historical association for the Chiemgau in Traunstein. 2011 yearbook . Pp. 28-72.
  • Ulrich Walljasper, Silke Mayler: Kathi Kobus, the Munich landlady of “Simpl” . In: Sabine Jung (ed.): The women around Ringelnatz . Wurzen 2013, ISBN 978-3-95488-702-6 , pp. 72-79

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Walter Staller, "There are all over the globe ... Joseph Kobus and his daughter Kathi" in: Historischer Verein für den Chiemgau zu Traunstein. Yearbook 2011 , pp. 28–72.
  2. ↑ Address book Munich 1918
  3. ↑ a b History of "Simpl" on www.volkssaengerei.de
  4. ↑ Excerpt from the Munich telephone directory from 1931 on www.sueddeutsche.de
  5. ^ Address book Munich 1905
  6. ^ So René Prévot , Simplicissimus, artist bar . Founded in 1902 by Kathi Kobus , Munich in 1932. Numerous more recent sources mention 1903 as the year of opening.
  7. ^ Roger Stein: The German Dirnenlied: literary cabaret from Bruant to Brecht . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-03306-4 , p. 194.
  8. ↑ a b c Natalie Kettinger: Seahorses and Kobus fox . (PDF) In: Abendzeitung , 17./18. November 2012, p. 20
  9. ^ Lisa Appignanesi: The Cabaret . Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-300-10580-3 , p. 64.
  10. ^ Roger Stein: The German Dirnenlied: literary cabaret from Bruant to Brecht . Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-03306-4 , p. 195.
  11. ↑ Joachim Ringelnatz: Autobiographical works: As a mariner in the war + My life up to the war + The bottle and with her on trips (complete edition) . e-artnow,, ISBN 978-80-268-3687-2 , p. 235.
  12. ↑ His poem "On November 25th. A toast to Miss Kathi Kobus" can be found in Ringelnatz ' Simplicissimus Künstlerkneipe and Kathi Kobus (PDF) from 1909, pp. 31–32.
  13. ↑ Erich Mühsam, Selected Works, Vol. 2: Journalism. Nonpolitical memories , Berlin 1978, pp. 585–593, here pp. 588 f. ( online )
  14. ↑ Erich Mühsam, Selected Works, Vol. 2: Journalism. Non- political memories , Berlin 1978, pp. 585–593 ( online )
  15. ↑ Staller, p. 53
  16. ↑ Short biography ( memento of the original from July 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on wo-sie-ruhen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wo-sie-ruhen.de
personal data
SURNAME Kobus, Kathi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kobus, Katharina (full name); Kobus, Kati
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German operator of the artist pub Simplicissimus
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Niklasreuth
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1929
Place of death Munich