Peters Opera Café Hartauer

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Peters Opera Café Hartauer

Peters Operncafé Hartauer, also Café Hartauer or Peters Operncafé, is a café house and is called an artist café . It is located in the 1st district of  Vienna, Innere Stadt, at Riemergasse 9, at the corner of Jakobergasse.

History and local

The restaurant was founded on September 25, 1981 by the Viennese restaurateur Peter Jansky . The opening took place after the world premiere of the opera Baal by Friedrich Cerha , which had previously taken place on the same evening in the Vienna State Opera . The star guest of the opening was the opera singer Martha Mödl . Jansky intended to create a coffeehouse specifically dedicated to fans of bel canto and opera in general. He had previously been committed to maintaining and adapting the old Viennese Centralbad in the nearby Weihburggasse, and since the late 1970s he has run part of this restaurant (without bathing) as a café under the name "Kaiserbründl".

Several authorities and administrative institutions were located in the vicinity of Jansky's Operncafé Hartauer, including the Inner City tax office and the Riemergasse court building. Despite urban “development measures”, the relocation of official buildings and the change in the socio-cultural structure of the municipality due to the release of business rents, Jansky was able to continue running Café Hartauer almost unchanged. In September 2011 the Café Hartauer celebrated its 30th anniversary.

Photos, autograph photos and signed autograph cards from stars of the Vienna State Opera hang on the walls. The focus of the photographs is on the female opera stars of the 20th century. The only exceptions are countertenor Klaus Nomi and film actress Zarah Leander . A small showcase has been set up for the opera singer Rita Streich . The publicly accessible guest book lists entries and signatures of numerous well-known opera singers who have performed at the Vienna State Opera. The opera singer Ljuba Welitsch was a regular at Café Hartauer. The actors who regularly visited the café included Marianne Schönauer , Gusti Wolf , Klaus Maria Brandauer and Wilfried Baasner .

Classical Viennese dishes are served, including snacks and goulash soup, toast. The restaurant has an extensive wine list .

architecture

The café building was built in 1910 as a rental house according to plans by the architect Eugen Felgel . Franz Zelenka was responsible for the construction . As an early work by Eugen Felgel, the house at Riemergasse 9 is clearly influenced by Otto Wagner's school . The architecture critic Friedrich Achleitner described the building in his main work Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century : "Felgel, who got some very beautifully designed townhouses shortly before the First World War, seems to be even more imprisoned here in terms of motifs." In travel guides and scene- Guides, the restaurant is known as an “Art Nouveau bar” or “Art Nouveau café”.

reception

In June 2007, the English edition of the Financial Times named Café Hartauer and the flea market on Kettenbrückengasse as symbols of today's Viennese eccentricity in its travel journal . She described the opera café as a “temple for dead divas, a place with a melancholy atmosphere and solemn obsolescence; a place where time seems to stand still. The atmosphere is more like that of a séance than that of a musical evening entertainment. "

Peter's Operncafé Hartauer is also mentioned and selected as a local tip in several travel guides , city guides and scene guides. The Viennese journalist Walter W. Weiss (* 1961) lists the Café Hartauer in his travel paperback Vienna , published by DuMont Verlag , under the heading “Bars and hot spots”. He describes the café as a “lovably curious place not only for opera freaks”. The Marco Polo travel guide Low Budget Vienna: Little money, a lot to experience by Diane Naar-Elphee and Walter M. Weiss also lists Café Hartauer in the “Nightlife” category. The authors describe the café as an “institution”, as a “place of encounter and discussion” for opera enthusiasts. As an insider tip it is mentioned that numerous opera stars "with a crowd of loyal admirers in tow" often stop by for a nightly snack. According to the scene guide Schwules Wien , Café Hartauer is a “must for opera fans”.

Media reports

  • Christoph Dompke: 30 years of Operncafé Hartauer - a success story in terms of Viennese opera culture. In: Orpheus , Sept./Oct. 2011, p. 51f.
  • Geerd Heinsen: The opera is alive - in Café Hartauer in Vienna . In Orpheus , Jan. 1994, pp. 12f.

Web links

Commons : Peters Operncafé Hartauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the original spelling on the website of the café, the forms Peters or Peter's, as well as Operncafé or Operncafe can be found alternately .
  2. ↑ In the Riemergasse court building , the District Court of Inner City Vienna, the District Court for Commercial Matters Vienna, and the Commercial Court Vienna were housed, which were relocated to the Justice Center Wien-Mitte in September 2003 .
  3. ↑ a b c d On September 25, 2011, PETER'S OPERNCAFE HARTAUER celebrates its 30th birthday.  ( 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. In: Der Neue Merker , updated version from September 2011; last accessed on October 14, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.der-neue-merker.eu  
  4. ↑ Where at the next table José Carreras sips his pintle. In: Kurier , August 19, 2004.
  5. ^ Franz Zelenka. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  6. ↑ Eugene Felgel. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  7. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian architecture in the 20th century. A guide in four volumes. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1990, ISBN 3-7017-0635-2 , p. 50.
  8. ↑ Alex Robertson: Neville Walker on Vienna. In: Budget Travel Tips - EuroCheapo, July 2, 2007; last accessed on October 14, 2011.
  9. ^ Neville Walker: Eccentricity everywhere.  ( 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. In: Financial Times , June 30, 2007. Retrieved November 11, 2011. Original quote: “ A similarly lugubrious mood prevails at Peter's Operncafé Hartauer, a temple to dead divas in the old town that recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, though such is the atmosphere of solemn obsolescence, it is astonishing to think of this place ever having been new. Scratchy old recordings of arias blast across the dimly lit room, which is sparsely peopled by an attentive clientele, mostly solitary and often gay. There is scarcely any movement, much less any sound, from the customers: the atmosphere is more that of a séance than of an evening's musical entertainment. The walls are covered with photographs of opera singers, many of them snapped with the eponymous Peter. Exceptions to the operative rule are carefully chosen: the avant-garde 1980s countertenor Klaus Nomi, who died of Aids, and the diva of the Ufa melodramas, Zarah Leander, whose darkly soulful contralto suits the gloomy, smoky atmosphere. It's an intense, only-in-Vienna experience - at once eerily gothic and unintentionally comic, impossible to imagine in any other German-speaking city, or indeed in any protestant one. ”@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ft.com  
  10. ^ Walter W. Weiss: Vienna , ISBN 978-3-7701-5944-4 .
  11. ^ Diane Naar-Elphee / Walter M. Weiss: Marco Polo Low Budget Vienna: Little money, experience a lot , ISBN 978-3-8297-1803-5 .
  12. ^ Andreas Brunner / Hannes Sulzenbacher : Schwules Wien. Travel guide through the Danube metropolis. Vienna 1998, p. 196, ISBN 3-85371-131-6 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 25.3 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 36.4"  E