The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Austrian and Habsburg Studies Book 16)

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. Introduction / Charlotte Ashby -- The Cafes Of Vienna: Space And Sociability / Charlotte Ashby -- Time And Space In The Cafes Griensteidl And The Cafes Central / Gilbert Carr -- 'the Jew Belongs In The Coffeehouse': Jews, Central Europe And Modernity / Steven Beller -- Coffeehouse Orientalism / Tag Gronberg -- Between 'the House Of Study' And The Kaffeehaus: The Central European Cafes As A Site For Hebrew And Yiddish Modernism / Shachar Pinsker -- Michalik's Cafes In Krakow: Cafes And Caricature As Media Of Modernity / Katarzyna Murawska-muthesius -- The Coffeehouse In Zagreb At The Turn Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries: Similarities And Differences With The Viennese Coffeehouse / Ines Sabotic -- Adolf Loos's Karntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction / Mary Costello -- Graphic And Interior Design In The Viennese Coffeehouse Around 1900 : Experience And Identity / Jeremy Aynsley -- The Cliche Of The Viennese Cafes As An Extended Living-room: Formal -- Parallels And Differences / Richard Kurdiovsky -- Coffeehouses And Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces As A Stimulus To Creativity In Sigmund Freud's Vienna And Virginia Woolf's London / Edward Timms. Edited By Charlotte Ashby, Tag Gronberg And Simon Shaw-miller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. The Cafés of Vienna: Space and Sociability 2. Time and Space in the Café Griensteidl and the Café Central 3. ‘The Jew Belongs in the Coffeehouse’: Jews, Central Europe and Modernity 4. Coffeehouse Orientalism 5. Between ‘The House of Study’ and the Coffeehouse: The Central European Café as a Site for Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism 6. Michalik’s Café in Kraków: Café and Caricature as Media of Modernity 7. The Coffeehouse in Zagreb at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Similarities and Differences with the Viennese Coffeehouse 8. Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction 9. Graphic and Interior Design in the Viennese Coffeehouse around 1900: Experience and Identity 10. The Cliché of the Viennese Café as an Extended Living Room: Formal Parallels and Differences 11. Coffeehouses and Tea Parties: Conversational Spaces as a Stimulus to Creativity in Sigmund Freud’s Vienna and Virginia Woolf ’s London Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography Index 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 1900. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies The Viennese cafe 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-siecle Vienna. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffee house in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Just as the cafeserved as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna 1900.