Maxim's
Maxim's is the name of a famous restaurant on rue Royale in Paris ( 8th arrondissement ).
history
The restaurant was opened on April 7, 1893 by the waiter Maxime Gaillard. From 1932 it was owned by the Vaudable family for almost 50 years. During the German occupation of France (1940-1944) it was run by the Berlin restaurant operator Otto Horcher and was one of the most popular restaurants for German officers; it became known in particular through the visit of Hermann Göring (June 1940). Even Albert Speer used to dine there with his numerous visits Paris during this time. He met there u. a. with Arno Breker , for whom Speer had bought a luxury apartment on the Ile de la Cité that had previously belonged to Helena Rubinstein .
Until 1977 Maxim's was awarded three stars in the Michelin Guide . When Louis Vaudable was informed of the loss of the third star in 1977, he asked for it to be removed from the Michelin Guide. The restaurant has not been run there since then.
In 1979 the Art Nouveau interior of the restaurant was classified as a Monument historique . In 1981 the fashion designer Pierre Cardin bought the restaurant. He discovered that it did not break even, but continues to operate it and partially converted it into a museum.
Cultural references
- La Dame de chez Maxim by Georges Feydeau , first performed on January 17, 1899 in the 3rd Théâtre des Nouveautés ; 1899 as The Girl from Maxim's at the new Criterion Theater in Westminster, also known as The Lady from Maxim's (1947); premiered on January 10, 1900 as Die Dame von Maxim in a translation by Benno Jacobson at the Berlin Residenztheater . "It was the most successful Schwank that the Residenztheater experienced", it also called the moral guardians on the scene and in 1901 led to mentions in the German Reichstag. As early as October 27, 1899, the premiere of Otto Eisenschitz's adaptation under the title Ich bin so frei took place in the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt , which apparently was supposed to be entitled Der kecke Fratz before the censorship authorities . It was the first - and staged by him - performance by the new theater director Josef Jarno and was performed 170 times. Today this version is largely unknown. After the Jacobson version was re-recorded in 1951, it is best known as Die Dame vom Maxim . Elfriede Jelinek translated it in 1990 under the title Das Mädel vom Maxim anew, which also appears under a different title. The material was filmed several times. The Schwank is about a well-known surgeon who "mistakenly" takes a girl from Maxim home with him, which causes all sorts of turbulence and mix-ups.
- In the operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár (1905) Maxim's is a setting. The song Da I go to Maxim became famous .
- In the film The Olsen Gang flies over the mountains , the well-known Danish gang of crooks breaks into Maxim's and leaves behind utter chaos.
- Wolfram Siebeck describes in his 1977 book Wolfram Siebeck's Best Stories an evening at Maxim's.
Web links
- Maxim's de Paris website (French or English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 20 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b slate.fr: Maxim's, l'histoire d'un déclin
- ^ Theatrical Notes . In: Public Opinion . tape 27 , 1899, pp. 318 (English, “The new Criterion theater has opened with 'The Girl from Maxim's', a French farce, the original indecencies of which have been considerably toned down in the usual fashion to accord with American ideas of propriety on the stage. There is no doubt that the friskiness of the piece, its amusing situations, and its reputed 'riskiness' will make it a popular success. ").
- ^ Lothar Hirschmann: The Berlin Residence Theater and the new theater under the direction of Sigmund Lautenburg . 1960, p. 43 .
- ↑ Catalog cards for the posters in the Vienna Library in the City Hall
- ^ Theater and Art News (October 27). In the Josesephstädter Theater. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, October 28, 1899, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Lower Austrian Provincial Archives. Lower Austria Reg, Pres Theater TB - text books of theater censorship. Signature: NÖ Reg. Pres Theater TB K 392/12 Title / Regest: Eisenschitz, Otto / * Der kecke Fratz (from * deleted) (I am so free).
- ↑ Wolfgang Sabler: The Neighbor's Theater. On the unequal reception of German and French stage works in Paris and Vienna in the last decade of the 19th century . In: Theater institution and cultural transfer. 1.) Foreign language repertoire at the Burgtheater and on other European stages (= Forum modern theater ). tape 21 . Gunter Narr Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5221-0 , ISSN 0935-0012 , Appendix 7: List of pieces that were first performed in Vienna between 1890 and 1899 and that were performed more than 100 times., P. 224 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 16, 2014] Listed as “The Lady of Maxim” and it comes second after “How to Tie Men” by Anthony Mars (210 performances).).
- ↑ According to Google Buch: "vom" is occasionally to be found in the sentence structure or as a prescription 1907, 1927, 1933; the piece is played until the late 1920s; from new admission in 1951 then mainly “from”; especially in the historical and / or theater studies context also “from”, also in some current performances.