The Café Stefanie was a coffeehouse in Munich which around the 1900s till the 1920s was the leading artists' meeting place in the city, similar to the ''Café Größenwahn'' atmosphere of the
Café des Westens in Berlin and the
Café Griensteidl in Vienna.
[''Schwabing - Ein Lesebuch''. Hrsg. von Oda Schaefer. Piper - München, Zürich (Neuausgabe 1985). ]
The cafe was located on the corner of Amalienstraße and Theresienstraße in the
Maxvorstadt not far from the
Simplicissimus
:''Simplicissimus is also a name for the 1668 novel ''Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, Simplicius Simplicissimus'' and its protagonist.''
''Simplicissimus'' () was a German language, German weekly satire, satirical magazine, founded by Albert ...
cabaret and . At the time it was one of the few establishments in Munich which stayed open till 3:00 in the morning.
Regular patrons and visitors included
Johannes R. Becher,
Hanns Bolz,
Hans Carossa,
Theodor Däubler,
Kurt Eisner,
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his tril ...
,
Leonhard Frank,
Otto Gross,
Emmy Hennings,
Arthur Holitscher,
Eduard von Keyserling,
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
,
Alfred Kubin,
Gustav Landauer,
Heinrich Mann,
Gustav Meyrink,
Erich Mühsam,
Erwin Piscator,
Lotte Pritzel,
Alexander Roda Roda,
Ernst Toller,
B. Traven and
Frank Wedekind
Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the developme ...
.
References
External links
www.muenchen.dezeitenblicke 5 (2006), Nr. 2 (PDF-file (German)
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