The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-764-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashby, Charlotte

Gronberg, Tag

Shaw-Miller, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Charlotte Ashby

Chapter 1. The Cafés of Vienna: Space and Sociability

Charlotte Ashby

Chapter 2. Time and Space in the Café Griensteidl and the Café Central

Gilbert Carr

Chapter 3.The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse’: Jews, Central Europe and Modernity

Steven Beller

Chapter 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism

Tag Gronberg

Chapter 5. Between ‘The House of Study’ and the Kaffeehaus: The Central European Café as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism

Shachar Pinsker

Chapter 6. Michalik’s café in Kraków: Café and Caricature as Media of Modernity

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

Chapter 7.  The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse

Ines Sabotic

Chapter 8. Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction

Mary Costello

Chapter 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity

Jeremy Aynsley

Chapter 10. The Cliché of the Viennese Café as an Extended Living-room: Formal Parallels and Differences

Richard Kurdiovsky

Chapter 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud’s Vienna and Virginia Woolf’s London

Edward Timms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shaw-Miller, Simon
Simon Shaw-Miller is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Bristol. He is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. His publications include: Visible Deeds of Music: Music and Art from Wagner to Cage (Yale University Press 2002), Samuel Palmer Revisited (co-edited, Ashgate 2010) and Eye hEar: The Visual in Music (Ashgate 2013). He won the Prix Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research Award in 2009.

Gronberg, Tag
Tag Gronberg, is a Reader in the History of Art and Design and a Tutor for Postgraduate Research in the Department of Art History, Birkbeck, University of London.

Ashby, Charlotte
Charlotte Ashby is a Lecturer in Art and Design History at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese Café Project at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she curated the exhibition “Vienna Café 1900” at the Royal College of Art and co-convened the conference “The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange.”

Charlotte Ashby is a Lecturer in Art and Design History at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese Café Project at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she curated the exhibition “Vienna Café 1900” at the Royal College of Art and co-convened the conference “The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange.”