Monte (Club)
The Montevideo (also: Monte ) was a scene discotheque in St. Annahof in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City , Annagasse 3 , from the mid-1970s to 2001 .
history
In 1894 the Tabarin establishment was integrated into St. Annahof by the architects Fellner and Helmer as a multi-storey revue theater . It was a magnificent ballroom based on the Parisian model.
In 1910, the former 1,000 square meter ballroom was cut in half by inserting a concrete mezzanine ceiling and the basement was converted into a theater for cabaret with tables in the parquet and boxes raised on the sides.
The Tabarin had after 1938 his name - according to the language regime of the Third Reich - in Triumph Tanzpalast change. Among other things, the Fratelli Sereno, famous swing singers, played there. Horst Winter , who was brought to Vienna by the chaos of war, began to set up a big band at the end of 1945, which later became the famous Vienna Dance Orchestra (WTO).
After the Second World War , several smaller pubs were built from the formerly large hall (later Monte , Tenne , Take Five , Wiener Wald ). The Melodies Bar was built at this location in the 1950s . There, among other things, played Maxi Böhm , Wiener Hugo and Cissy Kraner .
The Chapeau Rouge was a bar where champagne was drunk.
In the 1950s, among other things, fashion shows for “stronger women” took place in the Tabrin premises .
In 1955 the jazz musician Fatty George opened his restaurant in the Tabarin Bar , the Fatty's Jazz Casino . His merit lies in conveying mainstream jazz in a country in which “un-German” music and music from the United States were banned during the Nazi regime. His records - the first was made in 1954 - made a major contribution to this, as did his appearances in 1977 on his own television program “Fatty live”, which was produced by ORF.
At the end of the 1950s, Niki Czernin, Alfi Windisch-Graetz and Thomas Hörbiger founded the Playboy Club , one of the first discos in Vienna. The premises were previously called the winter garden . In 1962, in the basement of the bar premises Playboy Club , the dance hall Playboy subject to regulatory approval. After two more owners joined the establishment, the name was changed to Take Five .
In 1963 the Austrian pop band " Bambis " ran the restaurant on Annagasse. Her two greatest successes were "Melancholie" and "Nur ein Bild von Dir", with which she took places in the charts in 1964 and 1965. At that time the Tabarin was renamed to Tenne . At that time those ugly (now back away) concrete ceiling was added, the grand fin de siècle - stucco hid in the ceiling.
Independent restaurant since 1960
Since the division of the large bar into several smaller, independent bars in the 1960s, there have been several tenants in the premises of what would later become the Monte disco - in Tabarin times it was the entrance area to the large dance hall. The restaurant was called, among others, Little Tabarin , Playboy , C3 , Spiegel , Montevideo , Monte Nuovo and Monte .
Since 1975 Monte or Montevideo
From the mid-1970s to mid-2001, the Montevideo or Monte bar was a popular meeting place in Vienna and, along with the " Take Five ", was one of the classiest discos in Vienna. It was directed and inspired by Johannes Czernin (now a cardiologist in California), nephew of Niki Czernin, who also owned the Take Five. The restaurant got its name from the first doorman Sergio, who came from the capital of Uruguay of the same name. The bar was completely contrary to the mainstream of that time and had no garish disco balls or the like, a construction of black-framed squares over the bar and dance floor provided impressive lighting effects. All the walls were black. The genre of music was not shaped by the mainstream hit parade, but rather soul, R&B and Latin rock were played less often.
The admission control was extremely strict, every weekend those hoping but without a chance blocked Annagasse.
In the mid-80s, the U4 attracted international attention as a new type of restaurant. In order to consciously position itself against the trend as a dark "underground" bar, the bar was redecorated in shades of brown. With the name "Monte Nuovo" changed, the operators around Johannes von Nostitz-Rieneck tried to address the city's Jeunesse dorée. After a short time the restaurant was renamed "Montevideo" again.
The doorman and scene photographer Conny de Beauclair began his career in this establishment in the 1980s. Clubs like Monte, Motto or U4 laid the foundation for the career of DJ and musician Peter Rauhofer .
After a redesign by Harald Jahn on April 17, 1991, the Monte was reopened by Oliver Riebenbauer and operated until 1996.
The Monte Club Disco was frequently visited by international stars. The singer Falco was a regular guest . Grace Jones was pleasantly surprised when she visited the bar and spontaneously helped out one evening behind the bar. The bar hit the headlines after Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland started a fight in the bar after filming the movie " The Three Musketeers ".
Other well-known guests were Princess Lila Schwarzenberg , Herbert Grönemeyer , Claude Montana , Xavier Naidoo , Eros Ramazzotti , Bjørn Dunkerbeck , Billy Joel .
In 2001 there was a change of tenants and a reorientation towards a young audience. However, the renovation and the new concept were not accepted, and so the restaurant had to close after a few unfortunate attempts.
In 2008–2010, the large hall in the basement - below the former Tabarin (today Burgerking) - was renovated by Art & Style with furnishings from 1910 and can be visited. Otto Prutscher's exotic wallpapers have been restored. The premises of the former Monte and the former theater are now used by Art & Style as a fashion shop for various cult brands.
Individual evidence
- ↑ derstandard.at
- ↑ Wiener Zeitung Online from March 25, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2013 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.
- ↑ cf. Klaus Schulz: Jazz in Austria 1920–1960. Verlag Album, 2003, p. 40.
- ↑ youtube.com
- ↑ cf. Reading book of the Austrian Phonotheque. 2nd Edition. 1st year, 1998, No. 1, ISBN 3-9500913-2-7 .
- ↑ cf. Hugo Wiener: Time leaps: memories of an old youth. Amalthea Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-85002-317-6 , p. 245.
- ↑ cf. Georg Markus: Aunt Jolesch's grandchildren. Amalthea Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-85002-466-0 .
- ↑ cf. Richard Groner, Felix Czeike: Vienna as it was: A reference work for friends of old and new Vienna. Molden Verlag, Munich 1966, p. 27.
- ↑ bildarchivaustria.at
- ↑ rst-entertainment.at
- ↑ cf. Georg Markus: The Hörbigers: Biography of a Family. Verlag Amalthea, 2006, p. 284.
- ↑ club-take5.at ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.ucart.at/index.php?id=62 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2009 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.
- ↑ farm1.static.flickr.com
- ↑ christianreder.net
- ↑ Music and the formation of subcultures in Vienna in the sixties and seventies , master's thesis at the University of Vienna 2011 (PDF file, 900 kB)
- ↑ cf. John Cook: Viennese by choice, filmmaker by profession, Michael Omasta, Olaf Möller, John Cook. SYNEMA Society for Film and Media, Austrian Film Museum, SYNEMA Publishing House - Society for Film and Media, 2006, p. 75ff.
- ↑ Information and pictures about Annagasse on der-melzer.blog.de ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ruprechtsviertel.at ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2014 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.
- ↑ wien.gv.at
- ↑ kurier.at
- ↑ fm4.orf.at
- ↑ Oliver Riebenbauer. web.archive.org, archived from the original on July 26, 2009 ; accessed on February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ oliverrittenbauer.at ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2010 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.
- ↑ razyboard.com
- ↑ facebook.com
- ↑ derstandard.at ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2014 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.
- ↑ cf. Guru magazine, Pitti Herzfeld, May 1999 issue.
- ↑ cf. City newspaper CITY. Issue 47, 1999.
- ↑ cf. City newspaper CITY. Issue 14, 1999.
- ↑ cf. Martin W. Drexler: Idealzone Vienna: the fast years. Verlag Falter, 1998, ISBN 3-85439-224-9 .
- ↑ art-and-style.eu ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 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.
Web links
- Pictures and plans for the renovation of the premises in the early 1990s
- Photos local 1990s
- Photos Falco im Monte, 1990s
- Photos and newspaper reports in Facebook group MONTE LEBT - the Monte guests of the 90s
- Photos from the reconstruction of the basement
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 16.5 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17.8 ″ E