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The black piglets ( actually: Wine and tasting room, owner Gustav Türk ) was a Berlin restaurant on the corner of Unter den Linden / New Wilhelmstrasse. The building was destroyed in the Second World War. The place was in the late 19th and early 20th century, a meeting point for the Scandinavian - German - Polish artistic scene.

Comparable to the Friedrichshagener circle of poets known as in the periphery of Berlin, whose members in part in - For the history of literature, a high importance is the "black pig " as a place of encounter and stimulate exchange for an equally internationally and interdisciplinary embossed circle of contemporary artists to " black pig " wrong.

The name " The Black Piglet " was the local by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, who, during his stay in Berlin in the 1890s, discovered it for themselves. He noticed how Adolf Paul reported to the black piglets in Chronicles, the name at the sight of a black, stuffed a wineskin that hung on iron chains above the entrance door of the pub. As of 1892-1893 Strindberg chose the Premises for his evening main residence, which was " black pig " soon became a meeting place for an international artist - bohemian. Among the regulars were, inter alia, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, the German writer Richard Dehmel, the Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, the Norwegian poet Dagny Juel and the Danish poet Holger Drachmann.

The name should also be a reference to an appearance of Richard Dehmel as St. Anthony " with a piglet " on Carnival Monday 1892 at a costume party of the New Hermitage.