Café Hawelka is a coffeehouse in the Innere Stadt district of Vienna located at Dorotheergasse 6. The Viennese café (Wiener Kaffeehaus is a typical institution of Vienna that still plays an important role in Viennese culture and tradition The Innere Stadt is the first Viennese Municipality District. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria.
The Café Hawelka was opened by Leopold Hawelka in 1939. Leopold Hawelka ( April 11, 1911, Mistelbach) is an Austrian cafetier, founder of the Café Hawelka ( "Künstlerkaffeehauses Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hawelka had previously operated the Kaffee Alt Wien on Bäckerstraße since 1936 and together with his wife Josefine took over the Café Ludwig in the Dorotheergasse in May 1939. Kaffee Alt Wien is a classic Viennese Coffee house at Bäckerstraße 9 in the First District. This spot was originally the location of the Je t'aime-Bar opened in 1906. After the outbreak of World War II, the Hawelka had to be closed, and in Fall 1945 it was reopened in the fortunately still largely intact building. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
After the end of the period of occupation after 1955, the café quickly became a meeting point for writers and critics like Heimito von Doderer, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Hilde Spiel, Friedrich Torberg and Hans Weigel. Heimito von Doderer ( 5 September 1896 in Weidlingau near Vienna - 23 December 1966 Vienna) was a famous Albert Paris Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber; February 5, 1887 in Vienna &ndash May 16, 1973 in Baden Friedrich Torberg ( September 16, 1908 – November 10, 1979) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor an Austrian writer. Julius Hans Weigel (* May 29 1908 in Vienna; † August 12 1991 in Maria Enzersdorf) was an Austrian Jewish After the closing of the Café Herrenhof in 1961, even more artists gathered here and it became a central meeting place in the art scene of the time. Regular guests included Friedrich Achleitner, H. C. Artmann, Konrad Bayer, Ernst Fuchs, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter, Helmut Qualtinger, Gerhard Rühm, and Oskar Werner. Friedrich Achleitner (b Schalchen, Braunau am Inn, 23 May[[ 930]] is the name of an Austrian Poet and Architecture Hans Carl Artmann (* June 12 1921 in Vienna, † December 4 2000 in Vienna) also known as Ib Hansen, was Austrian writer and poet born in 1932 on the 17 December member of the The Vienna Group, he combined apparently irreconcilable elements - violence hermeticism pessimism ecstacy banality Ernst Fuchs (born February 13 1930) is an Austrian visionary painter, draftsman printmaker Sculptor, Architect, stage Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, born Friedrich Stowasser, (December 15 1928 &ndash February 19 2000 was an Austrian painter, Rudolf Hausner ( Vienna, December 4, 1914 &ndash February 25, 1995) was an Austrian painter draughtsman printmaker and sculptor Helmut Qualtinger (alt sp Helmuth Qualtinger) ( October 8, 1928 &ndash September 29, 1986) was an Austrian Actor Oskar Werner ( November 13, 1922 &ndash October 23, 1984) was an Austrian actor In the sixties and seventies the café experienced its peak. The artistic atmosphere of the café also inspired Georg Danzer's 1976 song Jö, schau (. Georg Franz Danzer (October 7 1946 Vienna – June 21 2007 Asperhofen, Lower Austria) was an Austrian Singer-songwriter. . . was macht ein Nackerter im Hawelka).
Josefine Hawelka died on March 22, 2005 after managing the café for sixty-six years with her husband. She had baked the place's specialty, its Buchteln desserts (which are still made by Amir Hawelka according to the old recipe). Buchteln are sweet Dumplings made of Yeast dough filled with Jam, and baked in a large pan so that they stick together Leopold Hawelka can still be found sitting at its entrance, greeting guests. Leopold Hawelka ( April 11, 1911, Mistelbach) is an Austrian cafetier, founder of the Café Hawelka ( "Künstlerkaffeehauses