Simpl (Munich)
The Alte Simpl is a restaurant in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich .
history
In 1903 Kathi Kobus took over the premises of the Kronprinz Rudolf coffee house in Munich's Türkenstrasse. With her, her regulars Frank Wedekind , Ludwig Thoma , Thomas Theodor Heine , Olaf Gulbransson , Julius Beck and other authors in the orbit of the magazine Simplicissimus from Dichtelei (Adalbertstraße) moved to the new restaurant. In addition to Café Stefanie (Amalienstraße), Simplicissimus also quickly became known as a cabaret bar. Until her provisional retirement in 1922, Kobus worked actively to establish her restaurant, for example by bringing Karl Valentin , Joachim Ringelnatz and Theo Prosel onto her stage and in some cases by contracting them as house poets.
The Simpl experienced its first heyday between 1903 and 1912 . But even after that, new performing artists provide important cultural impulses, such as from 1913 the Diseuse Marietta di Monaco , 1914 the young cabaret artist and later film and record star Max Hansen or from 1919 the difficult chansonnier Walter Hillbring , who to the chagrin of Kathi Kobus' (who because of financial difficulties had taken over the shop again) left the stage again if the audience did not like him. For the poets of the Schwabing Bohème , the Simpl remained a central point of contact when it came to introducing new texts to the literary audience. In this context, in a recitation of Marietta in 1914 and thus for the first time in literary history, the term "Dada" , which appeared in a poem jointly written by Klabund and Hugo Ball and later found itself in the name of the newly developed art form of Dadaism , to have fallen publicly.
The bar experienced a second boom between 1935 and the beginning of the Second World War after it was bought by the cabaret artist Adolf Gondrell , who appointed Theo Prosel as the tenant. Among other things, younger artists such as Fred Endrikat now appeared. The last house poet of old Simpl was Ernst Klotz (until 1944). Many figures from the Alter Simpl era were later among the first to receive the Schwabing Art Prize , which was awarded from the 1960s .
On July 13, 1944, a bomb destroyed the building. Theo Prosel opened a restaurant called Neuer Simpl on Platzl in 1946 . B. Karl Valentin appeared in the year of his death .
The Simpl -Local in Türkenstraße was conducted after the Second World War, first by changing tenants with changing names. From 1960 to 1992 the actress Toni Netzle ran the Alter Simpl . After Duke Ellington had played on the grand piano there in 1961, the bar regained fame and became a meeting place for musicians, theater and film people and journalists; Hollywood stars like Robert De Niro also came as guests .
present
Today you can find the Alte Simpl at this address , which is still popular as a restaurant in the university quarter. The bulldog logo still refers to the beginnings as a cabaret bar and to the magazine Simplicissimus . However, the old Simpl no longer plays a role in the Munich cultural scene.
literature
- Walther Diehl: The artist bar "Simplicissimus" - history of a Munich cabaret 1903 to 1960. (With a foreword by Konstantin Wecker ). MünchenVerlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937090-27-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Philipp Crone: Alter Simpl: Anecdotes that just tumble out. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. March 25, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 3.9 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 34.5" E