Charlotte Ashby - The Viennese Café and Fin-De-Siècle Culture

General Editor: Gary B. Cohen

Edited by David F. Good, Margarete Grandner, and Mary Jo Maynes

Edited by David F. Good and Ruth Wodak

Edited by Steven Beller

Edited by Michael Cherlin, Halina Filipowicz, and Richard L. Rudolph

Edited by Nancy M. Wingfield

Edited by Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit

Edited by Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B. Cohen

Daniel Mark Vyletta

Edited by Laurence Cole and Daniel L. Unowsky

Edited by Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo

Edited by Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen, and Franz A. J. Szabo

Hillary Hope Herzog

Britta McEwen

Edited by Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber

Edited by Marina Cattaruzza, Stefan Dyroff, and Dieter Langewiesche

Edited by Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg, and Simon Shaw-Miller

Edited by Johannes Feichtinger and Gary B. Cohen

Edited by
Charlotte Ashby
Tag Gronberg
and
Simon Shaw-Miller

First edition published in 2013 by

Berghahn Books

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2013, 2015 Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg and Simon Shaw-Miller First paperback edition published in 2015

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The Viennese cafe and fin-de-siecle culture / edited by Charlotte Ashby [et al.] -- 1st ed.

p. cm. -- (Austrian and Habsburg studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-85745-764-6 (hbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-78238-926-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-85745-765-3 (ebook)

1. Coffeehouses--Austria--Vienna. 2. Coffeehouses--Social aspects. 3. Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--19th century. 4. Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--20th century. 5. Jews--Austria--Vienna--Intellectual life. 6. Vienna (Austria)--Civilization. I. Ashby, Charlotte.

TX907.5.A92V5488 2013

647.9543613--dc23

2012033447

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Printed on acid-free paper

ISBN: 978-0-85745-764-6 hardback
ISBN: 978-1-78238-926-2 paperback
ISBN: 978-0-85745-765-3 ebook

T his volume is the result of three years work undertaken by the team of the Vienna Caf Project, as led by Professor Jeremy Aynsley at the Royal College of Art and Dr Tag Gronberg and Professor Simon Shaw-Miller at Birkbeck, University of London. Also on the team were Dr Charlotte Ashby at the Royal College of Art and the doctoral students, Diane Silverthorne, at the Royal College of Art, and Sara Ayres, at Birkbeck. The project was most ably administered by Angela Waplington. The team would like to thank the Royal College of Art and Birkbeck, University of London, for the support given to the project. We are especially grateful for the generous funding awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain without which much of the work of the project could not have been undertaken.

The early stages of conception and planning of the project benefitted from the encouragement of Dr Markus Kristan at the Albertina, Dr Eva B. Ottlinger at the Hofmobiliendepot and Dr Michael Zimmermann during his tenure as director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, London. The assistance of Reingard Witzman and Dr Ulrike Spring at the Wien Museum was also most valuable during the research stages of the project.

The exhibition, Vienna Caf 1900, the accompanying festival of events and the conference, The Viennese Caf as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange, held in 2008, involved the participation of a number of partners. The Austrian Cultural Forum in London continued its support of the project. In particular we would like to thank the then director, Dr Johannes Wimmer, as well as Andrea Rauter and Vanessa Fewster. Their enthusiasm for our work was a constant source of encouragement. The Austrian Trade Commission and Austrian Tourism, in particular Gerhard Mller and Oskar Hinteregger, helped the project greatly. We would also like to thank the then Austrian Ambassador to London, Dr Gabriele Matzner-Holzer. The Anglo-Austrian Society, the Coffeehouse Owners Association of Vienna, Hotel Das Triest, the Vienna Tourist Office and the Wien Museum all contributed funds towards the exhibition and public events. The exhibition and conference were beautifully catered for by the pop-up Viennese caf run by Demel of Vienna. Events accompanying the exhibition were co-hosted at the Royal College of Art, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Royal Academy of Music and Birkbeck Cinema.