Osteria Italiana

Tenement house with the restaurant

The Osteria Italiana is a restaurant in Maxvorstadt in Munich . The restaurant in the listed property at Schellingstrasse 62 , founded in 1890 as Osteria Bavaria , was one of the first restaurants in Munich to specialize in Italian cuisine and has largely retained its furnishings since it opened.

Location and property

The apartment building, on the ground floor of which the restaurant is located, is on the corner of Schellingstrasse and Schraudolphstrasse; three window axes are aligned with Schraudolphstrasse, five with Schellingstrasse. The house with a stucco-decorated facade in the neo-renaissance style has three upper floors separated by cornices, over which a corner bay extends, which is continued as a turret at the level of the roof; The entrance to the restaurant is under the bay window.

Furnishing

The restaurant's furnishings have largely been preserved since it opened in 1890. It is regarded as an important testimony to early Mediterranean gastronomy in Munich.

The founder of the restaurant, Joseph Deutelmoser, was German, but a friend of the Italian landscape, cuisine and art. The furnishings reflect the understanding of the Mediterranean flair of the late 19th century. A side room is designed as a column-supported Italian loggia , with flat pillars imitating this architecture, wall paintings by Carl Wuttke simulate a view of the Bay of Naples . The ceiling is painted with motifs from Greco-Roman mythology and Mediterranean landscapes.

The main room is also designed in a Mediterranean style; it is paneled with dark wood and has a dark wooden coffered ceiling . A large part of the room is divided into seating groups using high-backed benches.

In the courtyard, an arbor, designed in the style of a Roman round temple, protects the guests from the weather; it was set up there at the instigation of the house owner Alois Fischer, a stonemason.

history

The house was built in 1889 and 1890 by the architect Johann Lihm. In the year of completion, Joseph Deutelmoser leased the ground floor and opened the Italian restaurant there under the name "Osteria Bavaria", which was intended to express the connection between Italy and Munich created by the establishment. The restaurant was still owned by the family after the Second World War and was only given its current name later.

Thanks to its location in the Maxvorstadt near Munich University , today's Munich Technical University and the Munich Art Academy , the restaurant quickly became a meeting place for students, professors and artists. One of the returning guests was Oskar Maria Graf , who met there with the editors of Simplicissimus ; In his memoirs “Laughter from Outside” he describes the unpleasant impression that Adolf Hitler and his followers made on him when they sat in the next room of the pub. Hitler met his British admirer Unity Mitford in 1935 in what was then Osteria Bavaria.

literature

Stefano De Michielis: Osteria Italiana. Where the love for Italian cuisine began . Hugendubel, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-88034-997-5
Karl Gattinger: Osteria Italiana in Munich . In: Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art (Ed.), Karl Gattinger (Red.): Enjoyment with history. A stop at Bavarian monuments - inns, taverns and wine bars , 2nd edition. Volk Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937200-70-5 , pp. 143-145

Web links

Commons : Osteria Italiana - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Oskar Maria Graf: Laughter from the outside. From my life 1918–1933. , P.99 f . Allitera, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86906-007-1 .
↑ Ulrike Leutheusser (ed.): Hitler and the women , p. 97. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-421-05557-6

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[1] Oskar Maria Graf: Laughter from the outside. From my life 1918–1933. , P.99 f . Allitera, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86906-007-1 .

[2] Ulrike Leutheusser (ed.): Hitler and the women , p. 97. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-421-05557-6