Konnopke's snack

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Konnopke's snack (also Konnopke called) is a snack stand in Berlin district Berg Prenzlauer near the intersection Schönhauser Allee corner Eberswalder road . It is considered to be the first food stand in East Berlin where the Currywurst was introduced in 1960 .

location

Konnopke's snack bar under the underground viaduct, demolished in 2010
Konnopke's snack bar reopened at the same location in 2011

The snack stand is around 50 meters south of the intersection of Schönhauser- , Kastanien- and Pappelallee as well as Danziger and Eberswalder Straße. It is located under the Hochbahn bridge on the U2 line in Schönhauser Allee, immediately south of the Eberswalder Straße underground station . In the course of renovation work on the U2 line, the kiosk was demolished in summer 2010. Since autumn 2010, a new building in the “1960s style” has been built on the old site, which was opened on April 28, 2011. For the time of the underground renovation and reconstruction, the operation was continued in a food truck.

Because of its central location in Prenzlauer Berg and its popularity, Konnopke's Imbiß is popular not only with locals, but also with tourists. A snack stand of the same name was located in Mahlerstrasse Weissensee ; this was run by Günter Konnopke, a son of Max Konnopke. In 2000 it was sold. A new Konnopke branch opened on August 1, 2007 in the Heinersdorf district . ( Location )

history

On October 4, 1930, Max Konnopke (1901–1986) and his wife Charlotte Konnopke (1910–2009) founded the company as a vendor's tray on the corner of Schönhauser and Danziger Strasse, where the snack stand still exists today. Initially, sausages were only allowed to be sold at night, but from 1939 onwards, due to the shortage of meat, not at all. Potato pancakes were temporarily sold until Max Konnopke was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941. After the Second World War , they bought a sausage cart in 1947. It was not until 1960 that a snack bar was built at the current location. Since then, the best-known Konnopke product, the currywurst with ketchup based on a family recipe, has been sold. The reason for this in-house development was that initially no ketchup was available in East Berlin after the Wall was built. Due to its size (fewer than ten employees), the company was not affected by the wave of nationalization of family businesses in 1972. In 1976, daughter Waltraud Ziervogel (* 1936) took over the business. In 1983 she had the former wooden booth replaced by a metal snack kiosk. Around 20 employees work in the family business today (as of 2011). Waltraud Ziervogel announced in 2010 that he would manage the business until 2015 and then hand it over to her son Mario Ziervogel (* 1964), who, however , opened his own snack bar on Senefelderplatz in 2012 due to disagreement about the transfer of the business and increasing family problems . Despite the rush in the evening hours, the family-run business did not extend the opening times because otherwise the quality could not be guaranteed.

meaning

According to the Who's Who , the importance of Konnopke is to have introduced the currywurst into the capital of the GDR with this snack bar from 1960. Konnopke is repeatedly referred to as a famous snack bar. The travel magazine of ADAC Verlag, for example, characterizes Konnopke in its issue No. 69 as the King of Currywurst Ost .

In various media reports, Konnopke is called "legendary". The owner herself reports that there was already an enormous number of visitors during the GDR era. The Berlin-Magazin sums it up: "Even in the GDR era, the privately run snack bar was a popular place to go in the neighborhood ."

In her documentary Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg. Filmmaker Petra Tschörtner portrays encounters between May 1 and July 1, 1990 from 1991, among other things, "the operators of the famous sausage stand 'Konnopke's Imbiß' on Schönhauser Allee". Daniela Dahn refers to the snack bar several times in her book Prenzlauer Berg-Tour from 1987. The Konnopke snack stand is mentioned several times in the anthology Durchgangszimmer Prenzlauer Berg. A Berlin artist's social history in self-reports (1999).

Konnopke is also part of city tours through Prenzlauer Berg. Konnopke is also mentioned in the audio book Berlin - An acoustic journey between Wannsee and Alex edited by Reinhard Kober and Matthias Morgenroth . Hartmut Seefeld characterizes the Konnopke as a brand within Prenzlauer Berg in an article for the district newspaper VorOrt from November 2005 .

About Berlin, the food stall end of February 2001 it was announced when then- Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder , whose penchant for Currywurst in the press rumored , is here the "famous" Konnopke currywurst tried.

The business magazine brand eins portrayed the snack stand as a business whose success lies precisely in violating current textbook knowledge of business administration .

Songs

Konnopke's Imbiß was sung about in 1983 by the Berlin band Silly in the ambiguous song Heiße Würstchen (from the album Mont Klamott ) and in 2005 in the song Curryking (from the album Zeit ist Geld ) by Prinz Pi .

Others

In a new edition of the classic game Monopoly , Monopoly Today , published in 2006, Konnopke's Imbiß is valued at one million euros.

In the 2017 film Scouts of Peace , the protagonist Falk ( Henry Hübchen ) is arrested by the BND in front of Konnopke's snack bar . He previously ordered directly from Waltraud Ziervogel.

Literature / audio book

Web links

Commons : Konnopke's Imbiß  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Matthies: Currywurst cult. Scharfe Schönhauser: Konnopke's new snack bar. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Legendary snack bar: Konnopke's is celebrating its comeback in Berlin. Spiegel Online , April 28, 2011, accessed April 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Night shift with sausage kettle . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 2009
  4. ↑ Mourning for Curry Queen . In: BZ Online , April 21, 2009.
  5. ↑ Lydia Leipert: Berlin's most famous takeaway owner. In: Deutsche Welle , April 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ Eckart Witzigmann : History of Konnopke: Waltraud Ziervogel in the time conversation. In: Zeit -Magazin , No. 6, category life , January 31, 2008.
  7. ↑ Till Ehrlich : In sausage thunderstorms. In: the daily newspaper , June 9, 2007.
  8. ↑ Steffen Pletl and Gudrun Brandenburg: The currywurst becomes socially acceptable. In: Die Welt , October 5, 2005
  9. ↑ M. Böttcher: Here Ms. Currywurst explains her resignation. In: Berliner Kurier , July 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ K. Stamer: Competition for Konnopke's snack. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 10, 2012.
  11. ↑ This is the Berlin sausage, sausage, sausage! ( Memento from August 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: brand eins 07/2009
  12. ↑ Herta Heuwer . In: Who's Who
  13. ↑ Stefan Strauss: Mamasweed play at Konnopke . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 13, 2008
  14. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: King of Currywurst Ost . In: ADAC travel magazine , No. 69@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.adac-verlag.de
  15. ↑ Detlev Lücke: I didn't want to be the third petal . In: Friday , January 21, 2000, book review of the Prenzlauer Berg transit room.
  16. ↑ Losers and Winners. In: Berliner Morgenpost from March 7, 2008
  17. ↑ Oliver Hoischen: With Piccolo or Currywurst . In: FAZ of October 2, 2007, No. 229, p. 3
  18. ↑ Restaurant tips Berlin . In: Berlin magazine
  19. ^ Petra Tschörtner: Symphony of a cosmopolitan city . Documentary, German Historical Museum
  20. ↑ Petra Tschörtner: Documentary ( Memento from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Kino Arsenal , May 2007 ( Internet Archive ).
  21. ↑ Konnopke as a place to visit during city tours through Prenzlauer Berg ( Memento from January 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ With the ears to Berlin . EchtHoerbuch.de, April 16, 2004.
  23. ↑ Hartmut Seefeld: Guests are welcome! ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.9 MB) In: VorOrt from November 2005, p. 10.
  24. ↑ Chancellor promotes Curry Wurst-Konnopke . In: Berliner Kurier , February 28, 2001.
  25. ↑ This is the Berlin sausage, sausage, sausage! In: brand eins , 07/2009
  26. ↑ The lyrics to the hot sausages . puhdys-fanpage.de
  27. ^ All of Berlin is a monopoly: Paris bar and cathedral for sale . In: Die Welt , October 17, 2006.

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 25.8 "  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 43.8"  E