To the hangover Hiddigeigei

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Coordinates: 40 ° 33 ′ 2.16 "  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 38.04"  E

To the hangover Hiddigeigei, 1886
Guests at the Hiddigeigei, drawing by CW Allers . On the left the landlady Donna Lucia.

Zum Kater Hiddigeigei was the name of a popular restaurant on Capri . It was on the ground floor of the Palazzo Ferraro . It was founded in the 1860s by Lucia and Giuseppe Morgano, and in 1873 it was named Zum Kater Hiddigeigei .

The restaurant was named after the cat Hiddigeigei in Joseph Victor von Scheffel's verse epic Der Trompeter von Säckingen , which he completed in the nearby Hotel Pagano . At times it was considered to be the best-known refreshment stop on Capri. It was located in Via Hohenzollern, which has been named since 1894 (today: Via Vittorio Emanuele ) and belonged to Lucia Morgano. Advertising slogans documented on photographs show German and English texts.

"To the hangover Hiddigeigei, at the piazza, in the evening meeting point for the Germans, good and not expensive, draft beer, the owner Morgano also sells colonial goods, books (E. Prass depot in Naples), paper, etc. and changes money."

- Karl Baedeker : Baedeker travel guide Italy in one volume , 4th ed. 1899, p. 371.

“In front of the restaurant, in the shop window and inside a colorful hodgepodge of boots, liquor bottles, pictures, mahogany tables, cum, herring boxes, swimming trunks, Swiss cheese, beautiful literature and toothbrushes - and in this chaos the still stately landlady Donna Lucia enthroned as ruler the flame eyes, and her black princess Annina. "

- Hans Barth : Osteria. Cultural history guide through Italy's gift-giving from Verona to Capri. 1908, p. 221.

Local in other places

A hotel and restaurant, also named after the literary model, is still in the city center of Bad Säckingen today . There is also a fountain on the banks of the Rhine with a figurative representation of the cat Hiddigeigei.

literature

  • Riccardo Esposito (Ed.): Donna Lucia Morgano e lo Zum Kater Hiddigeigei . Capri 2002, ISBN 88-86443-46-3 (ital./engl.).
  • Giorgio summer in Italy. Photographs 1857–1888, Heidelberg 1992, pp. 155 and 218.
  • Stefanie Sonnentag: walks through literary Capri and Naples . Arche Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7160-2316-7 , pp. 11-14.
  • Illustration in: Moderne Kunst, 5 (1891) # 11, pp. 174–175.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefanie Sonnentag: Walks through literary Capri and Naples . Arche Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-7160-2316-7 , pp. 11-14.