Welcome
The Cafe - Restaurant Raimund
there since 1900 opposite the Vienna popular theater.
Café Raimund (1, Museumstraße 6). After the turn of the century a prestigious theater and artists Cafe. In the
1920s resided here Franz Theodor Csokor (at the time dramaturge at the popular theater) and his director
Rudolf Beer, the playwriter Sassmann, occasionally Berta Zuckerkandl, also the actor Karl Forest and his sister
Lina Loos (please look at: Casa piccola) as well as Egon Friedell.
After the Second World War, we find among the visitors, who had returned from exile, Hans Weigel (until he
moved to the Cafe Hawelka). Milo Dor and Reinhard Federmann was followed.
The graphic artist Kurt Absolon and Kurt Moldovan and the writer Jeannie Ebner, Ilse Aichinger und Ingeborg
Bachmann were also discovered. Even Christine Busta, Gerhard Fritsch, Jörg Mauthe and Friederike Mayröcker
came there.
Literature
Milan Dubrovic: Veruntreute Geschichte. Die Wiener Salons und Literatencafés. Wien [u.a.]: Zsolnay 1985, S. 161 ff. (Die Raimund-Runde)
Hans Veigl: Wiener Kaffeehausführer. Wien: Kremayr & Scheriau 1989, S. 77 ff.
Thomas Martinek: Kaffeehäuser in Wien. Wien: Falter-Verlag 1990, S. 84 f.