Café Hawelka
The café Hawes is an artist café in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt in Dorotheergasse 6
History
The café was opened in 1939 by Leopold Hawes Hawes. Hawes had previously operated since 1936, the Kaffee Alt Wien in the baker street and then took over in May 1939 along with his wife Josefine Café Ludwig Carl in Dorotheergasse. Here, the bar opened in 1912 Chatam had originally found. After the outbreak of the war, the cafe had to close but again, as Leopold Hawes was drafted into the Wehrmacht. In the fall of 1945, it was opened in the still largely intact building again from the Hawelkas.
After the end of the occupation, the café in 1955 quickly became a meeting point for writers and critics such as Heimito of Doderer, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Hilde Spiel, Friedrich Torberg and Hans Weigel. After the closure of the café manor in 1961 attracted more artists here at, and it became the main meeting place for the art scene of the time. Among the regulars included, among others, Friedrich Achleitner, HC Artmann, Konrad Bayer, Ernst Fuchs, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter, Helmut Qualtinger, Gerhard Ruhm and Oskar Werner. In the 1960s and 1970s witnessed the café with its shaped by artists and individualists atmosphere its heyday. Efforts to obtain for the cafe conservation status, whereby the statutory smoking ban would not have been taken, failed in early 2011.
Heimito of Doderer wrote in 1960 about the Hawes: " It is already known in London, and also meet people from Paris and the Netherlands in a cafe Hawes " - and why ". Ultimately, only because Mr. Hawes not renovated " In fact, the interior of the premises, said to have been designed by a pupil of the architect Adolf Loos, has remained unchanged since 1912.
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005, her only day off in the week, died Josefine Hawelka after they had performed the cafe for 66 years with her husband Leopold. She had also baked the specialty of the restaurant, the buns, according to the recipe of her bohemian mother. Until his death in December 2011 Leopold Hawelka often sat at the entrance to greet arriving guests. The dumplings are prepared since the death of the coffee house owner son of Günter according to the old recipe and baked by Amir Hawes. The grandson of Amir and Michael run the café today continues to be successful.
Cultural and Medial
The café Hawes inspired Georg Danzer for his 1976 published song Jö show ( " ... what mocht a Nockerter in Hawes '). Also, the Düsseldorf band Kraftwerk refers in her song Trans - Europe Express on the Hawes, but without the name of concrete to call ( "In Vienna we sit in the Night Cafe "). In Song Hawelka the Dutch band Nits the café is also mentioned. Based on the coffee shop, the Stuttgart band Hawes chose her name.
The 2002 turned documentary Queen Josefine - The Hawelkas and her Café portrays the couple and the story of their cafes. In autumn 2009, the book was published May one as Nackerta to Hawes? - Knigge advanced by Helmut A. Gansterer.