Viennese original
A Viennese original is the name given to a city original that is well-known in Vienna and that attracts attention with its unusual, interest-arousing properties and usually also finds literary echo.
List of Viennese originals
- Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), writer
- Marx Augustin (1643–1685), “the dear Augustin”, folk singer and bagpiper
- Baron Karl (Karl Baron) (1882–1948), trampoline
- Mr Robert (Robert Böck), head waiter at Café Landtmann from 1974 to 2003
- Leopold Hawelka , cafetier, founder of Café Hawelka
- Hannes Hoffmann (1918–1988), owner of the Gutruf restaurant and role model for “ Der Herr Karl ” by Carl Merz and Helmut Qualtinger
- Hubert Horky (born July 17, 1943 - † June 4, 2016 ), host and owner of Kaffee Urania from 1964 to 2016
- Otto Kobalek (1930–1995), “worker poet” and Viennese scene figure
- Wanda Kuchwalek (1947–2004), (the "wild Wanda"), female pimp
- Hubert Fabian Kulterer (1938–2009) poet and action artist in the art and literature business
- Joseph Kyselak (1798–1831), alpinist, author and forerunner of tagging .
- Josef Lukits , traffic policeman, known as the "Toscanini von der Babenberger Kreuzung"
- Hermes Phettberg (Josef Fenz) (born October 5, 1952), author, performance artist and former talk show host
- Helmut Qualtinger (born October 8, 1928 - September 29, 1986 ), cabaret artist, actor and writer
- Max Schödl (1834–1921), quirky painter of still lifes
- Karl Schmalvogl , traffic policeman, married to the opera singer Ljuba Welitsch . He was known as the "Karajan of the Opera Crossing".
- Helmut Seethaler (born March 13, 1953), "Zettelpoet"
- Ferdinand Sauter (1804–1854), Viennese heuriger poet
- "Reichsgräfin" Triangi (1868–1940), flautist and singer
- Hans Christian Tschiritsch (born September 7, 1954 ), musician, composer and musical instrument inventor
- Waluliso (Ludwig "Wickerl" Weinberger) (1914–1996), preaching peace activist
- Ernst Winkler, known as the gold fountain pen king (1886–1974), impostor
- Paul Wittgenstein (philosopher) (1907–1979), insurance employee, role model for Wittgenstein's nephew of Thomas Bernhard
- Wilhelm Zaillenthal (* October 18, 1921; † March 29, 2011), "the Herr General", strolled through Vienna for decades in uniform decorated with medals
literature
- Friederike Kraus: Viennese originals of the interwar period . Diploma thesis University of Vienna, Vienna 2008 ( full text online )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Roos and Clemens Fabry: The angel in the coffee house. "Herr Robert", Café Landtmann, Vienna and the world , Verlag Publication PN ° 1 - Bibliothek d. Province, Weitra 2004, ISBN 3852525691 .
- ↑ Leopold Hawelka is 100 articles from April 11, 2011 on falstaff.at
- ^ Johann Werfring: Viennese coffee maker legend has passed away . In: "Wiener Zeitung", June 16, 2016, p. 23.
- ↑ Peter Payer: The Vienna Opera Crossing. In: dérive - magazine for urban research . January 27, 2013, accessed on August 18, 2014 (for confusion between the Opera and the Babenberg Crossing, see Note 6).
- ↑ Josef Lukits. In: Der Spiegel . April 25, 1956, accessed August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Petra Rathmanner: "He was a grumpy authority" . In: "Wiener Zeitung", online version of September 27, 2011.
- ↑ Clara Hein: The thing with the vowel "u" , In: Stadtrechner aus Wien , Gmeiner Verlag, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-4414-2 , section 20.
- ↑ Urban research: The street. In: Ö1 Leporello . February 12, 2013, accessed August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Stadtflanerie with Zettelpoet Helmut Seethaler Article on esel.at
- ↑ In his essay about the exhibition on the work of Hans Christian Tschiritsch (1999) in the Austrian Folklore Museum , which was published in the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , its director at the time, Franz Grieshofer , describes the artist as “a Viennese original, but not of the cozy kind but one in which work and person are fused into a whole. ”Franz Grieshofer: Hans Christian Tschiritsch: Phono-Inventionen. An exhibition of the Austrian Museum of Folklore "... from the series" from January 21 to April 5, 1999 . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, Volume LIII / 102, Vienna 1999, p. 49. On the qualification of Hans Christian Tschiritsch as a “Viennese Original” cf. further: Werner Leiss: Invented instruments with two accordions . In: Concerto magazine, issue 1/2011; see. further: Johann Werfring: Magical moments of being . In: “Wiener Zeitung”, October 4, 2019, p. 18; see. also: Johann Werfring: Where angels go on vacation in Vienna. In: "Wiener Zeitung", October 11, 2019, p. 17.
- ↑ Michael Matzenberger: Waluliso: A Viennese original would be a hundred articles in the daily newspaper “Der Standard”, online version from July 1, 2014.
Web links
- Viennese originals: The General and Waluliso on picbox.net.
- Hannes Hoffmann and Otto Kobalek on oe1 .ORF.at.