Café Griensteidl

The Griensteidl in Vienna, also known as "Café Megalomania ", in the late 19th century was a famous artist eatery. The cafe was located at St. Michael's Square at the Palais Dietrichsteinplatz, opposite the old Burgtheater and Hofburg.

1847-1897

The Griensteidl, opened in 1847 by the former pharmacist Heinrich Griensteidl, quickly became a meeting place for Viennese literati. 1848, when it was a meeting place of politicians, it was temporarily renamed the National Cafe. Later personalities of Franz Grillparzer to Schönerer wrong here. The café was also a headquarters of the labor movement and its leading figures, including Victor Adler and Frederick Austerlitz.

Especially famous was the meeting place of the authors of the Jung-Wien, who made the mid- 1880s, the café at their hangout as well as a meeting place of the competing conservative group of artists Iduna. Among the writers who frequented here were Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, the young Rudolf Steiner and the young Karl Kraus.

The building, which housed the cafe was in January 1897 demolished as part of the redevelopment of the St. Michael's Square. Karl Kraus took the opportunity to settle the demolirte literature with the coffeehouse literati of the Jung-Wien in an essay under the title. On January 25, 1897 in the magazine Wiener extra leaf to read: "The loyal regular guests celebrated the demise of the locales with a great funeral feast (...) After midnight, all the stores of were sold out of food and drink and there were only administered slaps. Otherwise the atmosphere was splendid (...) ". The slap had Felix Salten Kraus missed for a passage of literature demolirten what Schnitzler noted in his diary with the words: " Yesterday evening Salten still has the small Kraus slapped in the cafe, which was generally warmly welcomed (...)".

After the end of Griensteidl settled many of the artists who had wrong there, over in the Café Central.

1990 - the new Griensteidl

1990 Griensteidl was opened in the building built after 1897 in the same place again. The address is: Michaelerplatz 2, 1010 Vienna.

A tradition of the turn of the century was that was asked in disputing knowledge of doubt, the waiter at the appropriate edition of the Brockhaus, the latter then brought to the table. This tradition is still alive today, in a bookcase opposite the entrance there is an output from the turn of the century as well as a recent one.

Artists who frequented the Cafe Griensteidl

Young Vienna Karl Kraus (writer)
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