Schelling Salon

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The house of the Schelling-Salon, Schellingstr. 54, corner of Barer-Strasse

The Schelling-Salon is a traditional restaurant in the Schellingstraße 54 (in the Munich district Maxvorstadt ), which since 1872 existed and has since been managed by the family more.

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He was mentioned several times in literary works, guests included Bertolt Brecht , Wassili Kandinsky , Rainer Maria Rilke and Ödön von Horváth . Even Adolf Hitler and Lenin wrong here, Hitler was busy because of unpaid bills with a ban after he had been a guest several years in Schelling-Salon.

Even Franz Josef Strauss , later Bavarian Prime Minister, who grew Street Schelling in, took in his youth beer for his father from Schelling-Salon.

The first landlord was Sylvester Mehr, who was also president of the innkeeping in Bavaria from 1904 to 1911. Under him, the salon was initially a garden restaurant. In 1911 it was taken over by the son Engelbert Mehr and furnished in the style of a "Viennese café-restaurant". This facility has largely been preserved to this day. Engelbert Mehr ran the salon until after the Second World War. Engelbert's son, again named Sylvester Mehr, ran the restaurant until his death in 2002. His daughter Evelin Mehr is now the fourth generation to run the salon.

The Schelling Salon has numerous billiard tables, both for pool and for carom (tables without pockets). Furthermore, he has table tennis tables in the basement that can be rented.

The author and journalist Rüdiger Liedtke writes about the Schelling Salon: "The Schelling Salon has remained true to itself for decades, despite all Schwabing's bistro and wine bar madness, has seen a lot and many come and go and survived everything and everyone."

Film about the Schelling Salon

  • "Grüß Gott, dear guests", film commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk by Thomas Honickel , 1998

literature

  • Rüdiger Liedtke: The Schelling Salon: table tennis and billiards in the unusual corner bar , in: Liedtke: 111 places in Munich that one must have seen , Hermann-Josef Emons Verlag, [Cologne] 2011, ISBN 978-3-89705-892 -7 .
  • Traugott Krischke: Stories from the Schelling Salon: a Horváth collage , Vienna, Munich: Sessler 1977.

Web links

Commons : Schelling-Salon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ With artists and philistines - On Ödön von Horvath's footsteps through Schellingstrasse, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 17, 2002
  2. http://www.schelling-salon.de/lokalges/fralokal.html , page "Host family more"
  3. The landlord from the Schelling Salon is dead. Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 27, 2002

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 4.5 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 23.3"  E