!!!Griensteidl, Café

Griensteidl, Cafe (derisively nicknamed "Cafe Groessenwahn", German 
for "Cafe Megalomania"), opened by Heinrich Griensteidl in 1846 on the 
Michaelerplatz square in Vienna. In 1848 it temporarily adopted the 
name of "National Cafe". Soon after its opening it became the 
favourite meeting place of illustrious personalities of Viennese 
cultural life. It came to literary fame in the last decade of the 
19%%sup th/%  century when, along with the older groups of writers of 
the  "Iduna", the members of  "Jung-Wien" also started to meet there 
(H. Bahr, H. von Hofmannsthal, A. Schnitzler, K. Kraus, P. 
Altenberg, F. Salten). Due to the demolition of the house the cafe was 
closed down in 1897. Its function as meeting place was taken over by 
the "Cafe Museum", the "Cafe Herrenhof" and, most of all, by the "Cafe 
Central". A new version of the Cafe Greinsteidl was opened at the same 
location in 1990.

!Literature
M. Horvath and F. Panzer (eds.), Erweiterte Wohnzimmer, 
1990.


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