The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture

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.

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.

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. Michaliks 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 Looss 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 Freuds Vienna and Virginia Woolfs London
Edward Timms

Bibliography
Index