Café Landtmann

The Café Landtmann in Vienna is a typical Viennese coffee house in the Ringstrasse style. It is located in the 1st district at the University of ring 4, corner Löwelstraße 22, and is known throughout the city.

Location

The cafe is located on the ground floor of the Palais Lieben- Auspitz mentioned Mietwohnhauses, in the immediate vicinity of the Burgtheater, the University of Vienna and the party headquarters of the Social Democrats and close to the Vienna City Hall with the City Hall Park, the Federal Chancellery and three ministries. The café is therefore frequented by, among other actors, politicians, civil servants and journalists and is the venue for press conferences.

History

The coffee was ( so the address of this part of Vienna's Ringstrasse to 1919 ) opened on October 1, 1873 by Café animal Landtmann as " Vienna 's most elegant and largest café- localities " in a prominent, 1872 built corner house at the time also new Franzensring. The ring road was indeed opened by emperor Franz Joseph I in 1865, but still long not completed in the area of the coffee house: The city hall was under construction since 1872, but was only opened in 1883. The university main building was built 1877-1884, the Burgtheater from 1874 to 1888. The coffee was thus in his early years surrounded mainly by large construction sites.

1881 sold Landtmann his coffeehouse to the brothers Wilhelm and Rudolf Kerrl who continued it under the name Landtmann and direction Oppolzergasse extended. Rudolf soon retired from active business life back, Wilhelm Kerrl led the café on alone until 1916 and then sold it, worn down by the economy of scarcity of the First World War, Karl Anton Kraus, previously a butcher and innkeeper. He led the coffee for only five years, because in 1921 it was supported by a Hokare Ges.mbH operated ( the name stands for hotel, coffee and restoration companies). This company had to be liquidated 1925/1926.

The Café Landtmann has now bought in the fall of 1926 by Mr. and Mrs. Conrad and Angela Zauner. The new owners left it in 1929 after a design by Ernst Meller, experienced in the establishment of coffee houses, fully restored: the interior preserved to this day and are under preservation order. Particularly striking are four wooden pillars at the entrance, which were created by Hans Scheibner and their decoration pose premiere scenes of the Burgtheater. With this elaborate interior design Landtmann consolidated its position as the most elegant café in town. In 1949, Konrad Zauner's son Erwin management of the cafes and led it on with great success.

In 1974 the company received the National Award and since then must the Federal coat of arms used in commercial transactions. In 1976, the present owner family cross the local field and renovated it in 1980 again.

The café Robert Böck, was named in the service only Mr. Robert, 28 years working for many years as head waiter in a tuxedo; he knew all the important guests personally. On his last working day, on 23 December 2003, many celebrities came to his departure from the cafe. Mayor Michael Häupl served Mr. Robert, who had so often served him a "little brown ". To this end, he handed him the "Golden Rathausmann " " for the most famous, most discreet and most accommodating waiter Vienna ".

Details

Small stage

In the basement below the coffee was already after Czeike 1936-1938 Cabaret 'Merry Landtmann " for the dancer Cilli Wang set up by her husband. 1953 in the basement of the small stage " The Tribune " was established (since 2002: "The new grandstand ," directed by Karl Heinz Wukow ). It is one of the numerous small Viennese theaters that operate with modest public support and authors, actors and directors offer application possibilities.

Conservatory

2007 was built a conservatory on the facade towards the castle theater, designed by Manfred Wehdorn by 1.5 million euros (Bernd transverse field ). With 87 square meters and 29 tables in the conservatory is almost as spacious as the great hall of the café; thus the capacity of the premises has been extended by a quarter.

Landtmann's Bel-Etage

2012 were opened above the café three function rooms, which are referred to as " Landtmann's Bel- Etage" a stick. One of the rooms is named after Berta Zuckerkandl, which in the house ( entrance Oppolzergasse 6) from 1917 to 1938 her famous salon, meeting place of artists, scientists and politicians led.

Price of water

2013 came the coffee in the media because guests who purchased instead of other beverages only tap water no longer receive free, this service. The scheme has been criticized partly violently. The glass of water for ordered coffee, as it corresponds to the Viennese coffee house tradition, still served free.

Others

The Café Landtmann 2.8 press conferences are held per day, according to the operator family on average.

Since 2003, the café is open every summer venue of the coffee house theater Ink & coffee.

In March 2009, was opened in Tokyo in the central district of Minato -ku, in the district Kitaaoyama in the Aoyama Street, a "Café Landtmann " called local.

The coffee house was visited by Czeike among others by the artists Attila Hörbiger, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Kokoschka, Hans Moser, Max Reinhardt, Oskar Werner and Paula Wessely. Among the politicians he calls Julius German, Robert Dannenberg and Karl Seitz, who were part of the "Red Vienna", and in the postwar period the then very popular Chancellor Julius Raab. Gustav Mahler is met here with Karl Goldmark, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were among the " by -trotting " guests, the authors Jura Soyfer, Felix Salten, Thomas Mann and John Boynton Priestley who also frequented the Landtmann. The owners call themselves also Peter Altenberg, Sigmund Freud, Emmerich Kálmán, Curd Jürgens, Otto Preminger and Romy Schneider as regulars.