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.

[1] 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 .

[2] Leopold Hawelka is 100 articles from April 11, 2011 on falstaff.at

[3] Johann Werfring: Viennese coffee maker legend has passed away . In: "Wiener Zeitung", June 16, 2016, p. 23.

[4] 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).

[5] Josef Lukits. In: Der Spiegel . April 25, 1956, accessed August 18, 2014 .

[6] Petra Rathmanner: "He was a grumpy authority" . In: "Wiener Zeitung", online version of September 27, 2011.

[7] Clara Hein: The thing with the vowel "u" , In: Stadtrechner aus Wien , Gmeiner Verlag, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-4414-2 , section 20.

[8] Urban research: The street. In: Ö1 Leporello . February 12, 2013, accessed August 18, 2014 .

[9] Stadtflanerie with Zettelpoet Helmut Seethaler Article on esel.at

[10] 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.

[11] Michael Matzenberger: Waluliso: A Viennese original would be a hundred articles in the daily newspaper “Der Standard”, online version from July 1, 2014.