Anna Sacher ( Fuchs; 2 January 1859 — 25 February 1930) was an

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hotel owner and proprietor, who was the owner of the world famous

Hotel Sacher Hotel Sacher is a five-star luxury hotel in Vienna, Austria, facing the Vienna State Opera in the city's central Innere Stadt district. It is famous for the specialty of the house, the Sachertorte, a chocolate cake with apricot filling. There is ...

. She was the daughter-in-law of

Franz Sacher Franz Sacher (19 December 1816 – 11 March 1907) was an Austrian confectioner, best known as the inventor of the Sachertorte. Biography According to Sacher's son Eduard, in 1832 Austria's minister of foreign affairs, Prince Metternich, order ...

Life

Anna was born on 2 January 1859 in Vienna, Austria. Her father Johann Fuchs was a butcher. Anna grew up in

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, the 2nd district of the Austrian capital, where she attended school and used to help her father in his butcher's shop. In 1880, she married the restaurateur and hotelier Eduard Sacher (1843-1892), the son of Rosa and Franz Sacher, inventors of the later world-famous ''

Sachertorte Sachertorte (, , ) is a chocolate cake, or torte of Austrian origin, invented by Franz Sacher, supposedly in 1832 for Prince Metternich in Vienna.Michael Krondl, ''Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert'', , 2011, p. 290: "my best guess i ...

'', which was later made in the Hotel Sacher confectionery. Anna had three children with her husband: Eduard Junior, Franziska, and Anna ("Anni"). In 1876, Eduard Sacher opened his hotel on the Vienna Philharmonic Street. Within a few years, it was valued for its elegance, exclusivity, and top gastronomy. After her husband died in 1892, Anna took over the management of the house and the hotel. In the following decades, she made the Hotel Sacher one of the most famous hotels in

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with her gastronomic knowledge and her unique corporate style. Anna Sacher received numerous awards at culinary art exhibitions as a hotel manager. Her fondness for cigars and for small French Bulldogs (so-called "''Sacher-Bullys''"), which she also bred herself under her kennel name "''Dernier cri''". In 1929 Anna Sacher retired from hotel management. Grave Sacher Anna

Anna Sacher died in Vienna on 25 February 1930''.'' She was buried in the ''Dornbacher Friedhof (''Dornbach Cemetery'')'' in

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Awards

* Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

In popular culture

Film

* ''Hotel Sacher'', ''Anna Sacher'''s character played by ''

Hedwig Bleibtreu Hedwig Bleibtreu (; 23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952. Bleibtreu is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in ''Th ...

'' (Feature film, 1939). * '' Das Sacher'' by

Robert Dornhelm Robert Dornhelm (born 17 December 1947 in Temesvár, Romania) is an Austrian film and television director. Biography Dornhelm is of Jewish descent. He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as ''Echo Pa ...

(2016). * ''The Queen of Vienna - Anna Sacher and her Hotel'' by Beate Thalberg (Documentary film, 2016).

Literature

* * Ingrid Haslinger: ''Kunde – Kaiser. Die Geschichte der ehemaligen k. u. k. Hoflieferanten''. Schroll, Wien 1996, . * János Kalmár, Mella Waldstein: ''K.u.K. Hoflieferanten Wiens''. Stocker, Graz 2001, . S. 10–15. * *

Monika Czernin Monika Czernin (born 18 February 1965) is an Austrian writer, screenwriter, actress and film director. Education and early career Czernin studied education, political science, philosophy and journalism at the University of Vienna. Family bac ...

: ''Das letzte Fest des alten Europa: Anna Sacher und ihr Hotel''. Knaus, München 2014,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sacher, Anna Women hoteliers Austrian businesspeople People from Vienna 1859 births 1930 deaths