To the black piglet
The black piglet (actually: wine trade and tasting room, owner Gustav Türk ) was a Berlin restaurant on the corner of Unter den Linden and Neue Wilhelmstrasse. The building was destroyed in World War II. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the restaurant was a meeting place for the Scandinavian - German - Polish art scene.
For the history of literature, the “black piglet” is of great importance as a place of encounter and lively exchange for a group of modern artists who are equally international and interdisciplinary - comparable to the so-called Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis in the periphery of Berlin, some of whose members are also in "Black piglets" frequented.
The restaurant was named "Zum schwarzen Ferkel" by the Swedish writer August Strindberg , who discovered it for himself during his stay in Berlin in the 1890s. As Adolf Paul reports in From the Chronicle of the Black Piglet , he remembered the name when he saw a black, stuffed wine tube hanging on iron chains above the entrance gate of the bar. After Strindberg chose the bar as his main evening residence from 1892 to 1893, the "black piglet" soon became a meeting place for international bohemian artists. The regular guests included u. a. the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch , the German writers Richard Dehmel and Peter Hille , the Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski , the Norwegian poet Dagny Juel and the Danish poet Holger Drachmann .
The name is said to be an allusion to Richard Dehmel's appearance as St. Antonius “with a piglet” on Rose Monday, 1892 , at a costume party of the Neue Klause.
literature
- Carl Ludwig Schleich : Strindberg memories (also printed in: ders .: Sunny past ).
- Adolf Paul : From the chronicle of the "black piglet". (a rewrite and rewrite of the events and conversations that occurred in the "piglet")
- Adolf Paul : To the black piglet (article about a Berlin restaurant, written around 1920) , in: Yearbook “Der Bär von Berlin”, ed. v. Association for the History of Berlin , 28th year, Berlin 1979.
- Frida Strindberg : Dear, Sorrow and Time. My marriage to August Strindberg.
- Stanislaw Przybyszewski : Memories of literary Berlin. Munich, Winkler, 1965.
- Carla Anna Lathe: The Group Zum Schwarzen Perkel. A Study in Early Modernism. (Dissertation, University of East Anglia, 1972).
- Karin Bruns : The black piglet [Berlin]. In: Wulf Wülfing / Karin Bruns / Rolf Parr (eds.): Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and unions 1825-1933. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1998 ( Repertories on the History of German Literature. Ed. By Paul Raabe , Vol. 18), pp. 406–416. ISBN 3-476-01336-7 .
- Marek Fialek: The Berlin bohemian artist from the "Black Piglet". Represented on the basis of letters, memories and autobiographical novels by its members and friends. Hamburg, Kovač, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8300-2996-0 .
- Torben Recke: The tragedy in Tbilisi. An edition-philological analysis of the reports of the tragic end of the Dagny Juel Przybyszewska. In: Orbis Linguarum 30 (2006), pp. 95-118. ISSN 1426-7241 . ISBN 83-7432-146-6 .
Web links
- Artists' pub “Zum schwarzen Ferkel” , exhibition “Elective Affinities: Scandinavia and Germany 1800 to 1914”, German Historical Museum, Berlin, October 25, 1997 - January 6, 1998
- March 2, 2013: Zum Schwarzen Ferkel A long night about an old Berlin artist meeting place by Peter Mayer Deutschlandradio Lange Nacht
- "To the black piglet" - an artist bar of the Berlin bohemians around 1900. A radio feature by Thomas Diecks. Production: Kulturradio des rbb 2018. Broadcast on April 13, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 58.9 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 51 ″ E